Author: "Lemire, Mark" <mlemire AT jhancock DOT com>
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 15:58:11 -0400
I'm trying to find a way to force Netview (v. 5.1.1) to autodiscover devices through their loopback address wherever one is defined. The loopback we are interested in is not the 127.0.0.1 address, bu
Mark, this exact question has come up before. And I know I have struggled with this situation at every site where I have implemented Netview. The product is not capable of what you are asking. I woul
Great suggestions Leslie, I wish I had more time to spend on it. I will reply in more depth later. But I have had good success with Cisco loopback interfaces if I follow these rules: 1. Make sure tha
Author: "Lemire, Mark" <mlemire AT jhancock DOT com>
Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 09:04:26 -0400
Thanks both to you and Leslie for the excellent feedback. We will consider taking Leslie's offer to take a stab at putting together a straw solution to this problem and submit it for review by this c
Well it depends. First of all you have to have netmon configured to use a seedfile. If you have that, then it only reads it when it starts up, or when you tell it to (by typing netmon -y on the comma
Author: "Lemire, Mark" <mlemire AT jhancock DOT com>
Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 11:02:36 -0400
Thanks, Ray. That's what we were afraid of -- netmon only reads the seedfile when it first starts or updated via the netmon -y/GUI. We want discovery to always be on, so this is what I'm thinking: 1.
Sounds good, but if you delete an address from the seedfile, it will NOT be deleted from the database, you'll have to delete it from the map. -- Ray Schafer | schafer AT tkg DOT com The Kernel Group
Author: Jane Curry <jane.curry AT skills-1st.co DOT uk>
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 10:27:35 +0100
This is one of my "soapbox" subjects.... I struggle a little with organisations who invest in NetView but do not invest in a reliable DNS infrastructure. I have had very good success with Ray's comme
Sometimes the DNS issues are because of the nature of DNS and how the company's networks are politically divided up. Companies tend to want to assign DNS names by department, function, OS, or other s