Hi Bryan,
we also add from time to time objects manually and had the same
problems. If the object has only one IP-Adress, like a dialin-Router
(with only modems on the other side), it will disappear from the
IP-Internet-Map, because it's no longer recognized as an router, but it
is still in one of the Segment-Submaps.
Another problem may be that the ip-address of your new object is already
in the database, by example if you take the address from another router
to the new one. In this case you must be certain that the address is
taken off from the "old" object, check it by example per demand poll or
ovtopodump and grep for the ip-address. If the address of the new object
is already in the database, you will get the described problems with
vanishing objects.
Greetings
Michael
Leslie Clark wrote:
>
> Some part of the missing router must be in there somewhere, although the
> message you are
> getting is not the one I would expect. Anyway, I prefer to have netview
> discover these things
> naturally, rather than force it by adding them. For that to happen, you will
> first have to find the
> thing and delete it. And I would delete that remote subnet as well. If it is
> blue, then it is
> probably there as a starting point for the discovery of the missing router.
> (Any chance that
> snmp is not turned on in that router? Now about finding and deleting the
> partial router node:
> Do an ovobjprint -s > junk.file and grep the file looking for your friend.
> Sometimes you will
> find an object that has only the selection name and hostname fields. That
> means
> somebody
> is planning to discover it. There is probably not enough of an object to do a
> locate and
> delete via the map on it, but (don't tell anyone I told you this) you might be
> able to clean it
> out using the undocumented, unsafe, unsupported 'ovtopofix -r <SelectionName>'
> command.
> The thing could be the start of a node, a segment, a network, whatever. If it
> is related to
> the missing router, get rid of it. Of course during discovery you only want to
> have one map, right?
> Then do the regular stuff: ovmapcount -a, ovtopofix -a, ovstop ovtopmd,
> ovtopofix -Cv.
> I would then restart netmon and ovtopmd, give netmon a while to do its
> configuration poll,
> and ping the missing router. Make sure new node discovery is enabled, both in
> the general
> sense (Options..Topology..) and in that network (Options...SNMP
> onfiguration..).
> By the way, I don't know for sure that the '-r' option was carried forward
> into
> V5. I've used it
> recently in V4, though, for a similar situation.
>
> Cordially,
>
> Leslie Clark
> IBM Global Services - Network & Systems Management - Detroit
>
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>
> I tried the ovtopodump and it is NOT currenlty defined in the database.
>
> Here's a little more information. The router Im trying to discover has no
> DNS resolved hostname. From reading other posts, maybe this could relate to
> the problem.
>
> subnet a --<Router to be defined>--subnet b
>
> Subnet a is discovered, managed and connected. Subnet b is blue
> (undetermined) and unconnected. I attempt to add the router with IP address
> of either interface on the subnets, and Netview tells me:
>
> > "Node with this IP address already exists in Interent level submap"
> >
> We are configured for autodiscovery, yet this router is not being
> found. What are the detailed steps involved in auto-discovery. Perhaps
> with a step by step list, I can troubleshoot this configuration...
>
> TIA,
> Bryan
>
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>
> > Try ovtopodump `ip address` and see if you get a reply. You could have an
> > object
> > in the database that needs purging.
> >
> > Steve
> >
> > ______________________________ Reply Separator
> > _________________________________
> >
> >
> > Im trying to add an object (specifically a Connector..Gateway) to
> > an
> > IP Internet map. I select IP attributes, type in the IP address of one of
> > the router interfaces, and it tells me:
> >
> > "Node with this IP address already exists in Interent level
> > submap"
> >
> > However if I do a Locate..By Attribute..IP address=x.x.x.x, it
> > tells me none found?
> >
> > We have multiple Netview servers that each monitor a portion of
> > our
> > network. The 1st addition was successful. However the subsequent
> > additions
> > fail on the other 2 Netview servers.
> >
> > Does anyone know whats going on here?
> >
> > TIA,
> > Bryan
> >
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