NetView is strongly tied to whatever interface you started with;  there is
no natural affinity for token ring.  You think the host name is the same
but it is not.  The hostname is tied to the interface in DNS.

You can read about reset_ci in the dynatext books which  ship with the
NetView product.

Any time you change the hostname or the ip address of the NetView box you
must run /usr/OV/service/rest_ci.

James Shanks
Tivoli (NetView for UNIX) L3 Support


Maciej.Podoski AT THEMUTUALGROUP DOT COM on 06/11/98 10:33:41 AM

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I've looked at it only from the network reachability point of view, I
didn't think that NetView itself is so strongly tied to the token ring
interface.  The hostname did not change after all, just the interface, and
NetView used all three interfaces before ( ethernet, tkr and ATM ).  I've
never even heard of reset_ci.  Is it documented anywhere?  What does it do?

Maciej





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Maciej -

Think about what you are doing.  NetView knows his own interface and
hostname -- it's in his database.  Now you have yanked it out from
underneath him.  You need to run reset_ci at least.

James Shanks
Tivoli (NetView for UNIX) L3 Support


Maciej.Podoski AT THEMUTUALGROUP DOT COM on 06/11/98 09:23:47 AM

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Hi there

I have an AIX 4.1.5 RS/6000 with NetView 4.1.2.  The box has ethernet,
token ring and ATM interfaces, but at the moment the bulk of traffic goes
through the token ring interface.  I want to move all that traffic to the
ATM interface and all seemed fine untill I tried to reboot the machine.
First of all, it took forever as the SNMP agent timed out, then the GUI
would not start and so on.  My question is then is there something in the
standard NetView startup files that looks for a token ring interface?  Or
should a change to the default gateway and to the static routes in the
routing tables be enough?

Maciej