Anthony,
        If you are using NV V5. you can use the nvUtil command. You
can list membership of a collection by using the "l" flag. An example
might be "nvUtil l routers". that command would list all devices in the
"routers" collection.

        Hope this helps,
        RickB

> From UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU!owner-nv-l  Tue Jun 16 10:21:51 1998
> >From rlbarhy  Tue Jun 16 10:21:51 1998
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> From:         Anthony Philipp <philipt AT NATIONWIDE DOT COM>
> Subject:      Listing Objects In A Collection
> To:           NV-L AT UCSBVM.ucsb DOT edu
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> I have a collection that contains all routers that have down interfaces.
> Is there a command line utility that I can use to quickly list the contents
> of this collection?  Currently I use ovtopodump with some scripted logic to
> filter out the routers but this command takes about 30 seconds to complete
> because of the large number of objects in my database.
>