A number of products do level-2 discovery. HP OpenView NNM, RiverSoft
OpenRiver just to mention a couple of general purpose network management
systems. Vendor specific solutions like CiscoWorks 2000 Campus Manager do
also.


Michael.

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If NetView can't do Level-2 device monitor, which tools can do ? HP
OpenView or others ?

Thanks

   Shen Ou



"Leslie Clark" <lclark AT US.IBM DOT COM> on 2001-08-17 11:27:46

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No. The only layer 2 that Netview will draw is for some HP hubs, as that
vendor-specific information was in the product when we licensed the code
from HP many years ago.

Cordially,

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




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I believe that this question has been asked but not completely answered.  I
would like to be able monitor the actual ports on cisco devices,
specifically the cisco 6509 acting as a layer 2.  Ideally I would like to
drill down to some map that has these ports listed much like the interfaces
on that device.  Is this possible through NetView?

Allie M. Tate
Office of Telecommunications
Louisiana State University


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