The answer is that alone, it does not. This is because most NAT firewalls
do not handle translation of the addresses in the payload, so snmp queries
to a device would return results that do not match the translated address
of
the device itself. This is why Tivoli has  come out with the CNAT product.
It sits on a server somewhere else to do the interception and translation,
and
it translates addresses in the payload as well as the address of the
device.
There is also code that runs on Netview itself, indicating those addresses
that have been normalized. I have not seen the product, only a presentation
on how it works.

Cordially,

Leslie A. Clark
IBM Global Services - Systems Mgmt & Networking
Detroit

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Martin Walder <martin.walder AT itmasters DOT com>@tkg.com on 05/12/2000 
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This question has been asked in the archives, but not really answered,
as far as I can tell.  How well does NetView handle NAT?  All I want to
do is manage a remote machine across a VPN, with one firewall at either
end.  The config would be NetView 6.0 on a Solaris machine.  Thx.

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