You would have to run the netmon trace and get practiced at reading it.

All of that information is in there but it not available any other way.
 There been many appends on this list about people doing that.

James Shanks
Tivoli (NetView for UNIX) L3 Support



Muni Chatarpal <munic AT LUCENT DOT COM> on 01/14/2000 03:52:42 PM

Please respond to Discussion of IBM NetView and POLYCENTER Manager on NetView
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To:   NV-L AT UCSBVM.UCSB DOT EDU
cc:    (bcc: James Shanks/Tivoli Systems)
Subject:  Re: Is there a way to check on the health of netmon




Well james, to clarify a little, a way of checking to see if netmon is
contribution to any performance on the AIX box.  Is netmon falling behing
on polling ?  Is the poll list too long for netmon ?  Is netmon polling too
many nodes ?  how long is the snmp poll list ?  Should I increase/decrease
my polling frequency because netmon is falling behind ?  Just a way of
telling if netmon is performing optimally.

Thanks for any assistance.

At 02:49 PM 1/14/00 -0500, you wrote:
>What do you mean by graphical?  If netmon is not running and you attempt a
>demand poll from the GUI,  the deman poll window will tell you netmon is not
>running.   And periodically, ovw checks on the daemons and will send you a
>pop-up window which says that netmon is not running.  So if the GUI is already
>up, you have both those options.
>
>A quick way  to check on the health of netmon is to do "ovstatus netmon"
>and see
>whether he has exited with a message, which is better than "ps" because ovspmd
>will even catch a core and tell you about it (e.g "netmon exited with signal
>11").  But the best way to check on the real health of netmon ("yeah, he's up
>but is he working?") is to start the netmon trace (netmon -M  -1 ) and tail -f
>/usr/OV/log/netmon.trace.  Do you want that to be graphical?  How about
>writing
>a short script to do it and put up a pop-up window with ovxecho or  ovxbeep?
>
>
>I think you need to clarify what you are asking.
>
>
>James Shanks
>Tivoli (NetView for UNIX) L3 Support
>
>
>
>Muni Chatarpal <munic AT LUCENT DOT COM> on 01/14/2000 12:43:49 PM
>
>Please respond to Discussion of IBM NetView and POLYCENTER Manager on NetView
>       <NV-L AT UCSBVM.UCSB DOT EDU>
>
>To:   NV-L AT UCSBVM.UCSB DOT EDU
>cc:    (bcc: James Shanks/Tivoli Systems)
>Subject:  Is there a way to check on the health of netmon
>
>
>
>
>I know there is a graphical method of checking on the health of netmon
>daemon in Network Node Mgr, How can you check on netmon with Netview ?
>Something more than just a ps-ef |grep netmon.
>
>Thanks
>
>Muni

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