Netview when using pings for status polls will send more than one ping based
on the XNMPSNMPCONF retries field I believe. If you look at the SNMP config
for that device the retries should be greater than 1 and therefore should
send more than one ping (assuming the first one fails).


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nv-l AT tkg DOT com [mailto:owner-nv-l AT tkg DOT com]On Behalf Of
Brunschede, Gerd
Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 7:37 AM
To: IBM NetView Discussion
Subject: [NV-L] Status polling


Hello,

We have NetView Version 6.0.1 and AIX 4.3.2.
The Question:
As I know NetView sends for status polling a ping with one
frame. In my case NetView has to send a ping to a device
after a firewall. The firewall swallows up the first ping-frame.
So if NetView sends only one frame this is allways swallowd up
and the device appears as NODE DOWN.
How can I tell NetView to send more than one frame?

Thanks in advance and with best regards

Gerd Brunschede
Forschungszentrum Karslruhe GmbH
HIK
Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Platz 1
76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen
Phone:  +49 7247 82-5637
Fax:    +49 7247 82-4972
e-mail: gerd.brunschede AT hik.fzk DOT de
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