Netview's just going to ping each IP interface; if it remains reacheable,
Netview will report "up".  You'll probably have to rely on the smarts of the
router to send a trap to Netview when this occurs and take some
action/notification based on that.

Rob

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From: Discussion of IBM NetView and POLYCENTER Manager on NetView
[mailto:NV-L AT UCSBVM.UCSB DOT EDU]On Behalf Of OGrant
Sent: Friday, March 05, 1999 11:20 AM
To: NV-L AT UCSBVM.UCSB DOT EDU
Subject: netview 5.1/nt and frame relay


Has anyone had any experience using netview 5.1/nt (or any other version,
for that matter) over a frame relay network?  In particular, how well
netview handles (or doesn't) virtual interfaces.  We're currently running
this configuration, and I'm trying to understand/improve on how netview
detects virtual circuits going down (i.e., given a network with multiple
virtual path between points a and b, if any one path goes down, as long as
traffic continues to be passed between those two paths, netview reports the
status of the connection as "up".)  Is this just a feature of netview that I
have to live with, or is another option available?  Many thanks,

Oliver M. Grant
Performance Engineering Corp.
703/273-9880, (F) 703/273-9881, (Alpha. Pager) 800/800-7759
ogrant AT pec DOT com