Hi James,

Some things that I would check are:-

    -presence of seed file ( being used by netmon ) - especially looking for
     distinctions between the two ( check the configurations of netmon through
     SMIT configuration tool )
    -Some element of division of the network between the two Netview servers
     ( eg. via backup  - could see evidence of this via looking for unmanaged
     networks ).
    -Do you have collections defined differently on one machine as against the
other
      ( check submap of collections glyph )

I can't think of anything else for the moment but if I do I'll send it on.

Regards,

Simon

James Zeng wrote:

> Hello , Everyone
>
> I have a tough problem here .
>
> We got two identical NetView boxes managing the intranet for a banking . The
> NetView is at V4.1.0.0 and the AIX is 4.1.5 .
> Both  of the NetView looking after the same intranet . Untill three weeks ago 
> ,
> we noticed a phenomenon that the number of objects on the two boxes are
> dramaticaly different . One of them has 33k objects with the growth rate of 
> 500
> objects per day ,
> the other has approximately 10k objects with the growth rate of 50-100 per day
> .
>
> They are supposed to manage  the same global network , why one is seeing  far
> more objects than the other ? Where did the objects come from ? The only
> difference is two machines reside on different sebnetwork .
>
> The command I used to get the numbers was : ovobjprint  -S
> On the box with more objects , the command never finished after showing the
> first two lines which are the number of objects and database fields .  The
> other did .
>
> I dumped the database into a ascii file by using the command " ovobjprint " 
> and
> tried to do a comparison but had to give up due to the size of the files .
>
> Does anyone have the experience on the issue , or just give me some hints as
> where should be looked at ?
>
> Best Regard,
>
> James Zeng
> IBM Canada Tel: 905-316-2288  Fax: 905-316-3743