hi!

from the symptom i judge that you use aix 4.3.2

if this is true then you have to switch from a /etc/hosts
based name resolution to a dns-based

sorry, but aix 4.3.x now uses some IPv6 resolution
and a large number of entries in the /etc/hosts file
slows netmon down to the 2 hours you stated

in our case it took 6 hours for netmon to begin polling
(30k+ object in the database)




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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sebastian.Szumczyk AT natned.com DOT pl 
> [mailto:Sebastian.Szumczyk AT natned.com DOT pl]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2000 4:46 PM
> To: nv-l AT tkg DOT com
> Subject: RE: [NV-L] please answer this question!
> 
> 
> yes, i run netmon trace (netmon -M -1) then i tail file 
> netmon.trace, but i
> can't see nothing! but when netmon starts working it writes 
> to netmon.trace
> many entries so it works fine :-) the problem is i have to 
> wait for that
> more than 2 hours after restarting netmon. why?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: James_Shanks AT tivoli DOT com [mailto:James_Shanks AT tivoli DOT com]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2000 4:23 PM
> To: IBM NetView Discussion
> Subject: Re: [NV-L] please answer this question!
> 
> 
> How did you decide that netmon was hung?
> 
> If it really is, then my guess is that you have severe name resolution
> problems.
> 
> Are you running the netmon trace?
> 
> James Shanks
> Team Leader, Level 3 Support
>  Tivoli NetView for UNIX and NT
> 
> 
> 
> Sebastian.Szumczyk AT natned.com DOT pl on 11/14/2000 10:03:20 AM
> 
> Please respond to IBM NetView Discussion <nv-l AT tkg DOT com>
> 
> To:   nv-l AT tkg DOT com
> cc:    (bcc: James Shanks/Tivoli Systems)
> Subject:  [NV-L] please answer this question!
> 
> 
> 
> 
> hi,
> first of all i would like to ask you for reply on this 
> message as soon as
> possible cause i'm very disappointed of netmon and i'm in 
> real troubles :-(
> i've got 1200 objects in database, defined location.conf and 
> seed.file.
> when
> i restarted netmon it hung! so i decided to remove seed.file 
> from netmon
> configuration, but still if i would like to change sth for 
> instance snmp
> configuration netmon hangs for over 2 hours!!! what's going 
> on? how solve
> this problem?
> 
> bast3k
> 
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