In your seed file use:

# Supress unwanted SNMP devices 
#                               
!@oid 1.3.6.1.4.1.311.*         
@oid 1.3.6.1.4.1.9.*            

The first line suppresses windows workstations
The second includes all Cisco devices. If your network gear is typically
Cisco this will be a good starting point

-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Pobst [mailto:epobst00 AT yahoo DOT com]
Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 9:42 AM
To: IBM NetView Discussion
Subject: RE: [NV-L] Network Discovery


I thought about that method, but since nobody here can
provide me with a list of hardware types, It may not
be applicable. I beleive I can limit my discovery
tremendously If I isolate only SNMP devices in that I
listed that as a requirement for the type of info they
wish to retrieve. My real motivation is to avoid
discovery of Workstations of which I have absolutely
no information....going about it blind.

Thanks,
Eric

--- "Barr, Scott" <Scott_Barr AT csgsystems DOT com> wrote:
> I would suggest using OID discovery limiting
> discovery to OIDs for the
> network hardware vendors (such as Cisco).  This may
> work better for you
> discovering an unknown network than using IP ranges
> or router names.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Pobst
> [mailto:erpobst AT carnegiesoftware DOT com]
> Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 8:28 AM
> To: nv-l AT tkg DOT com
> Subject: [NV-L] Network Discovery
> 
> 
> well I am halfway through my first NetView project
> and only about to
> start the Network Discovery process.  To this point
> I have been limiting
> my discovery to only certain nodes and now need to
> discover all Network
> device related nodes.  I have no info on the types
> of devices out there,
> but have a handful of community strings in my
> location.conf.  My
> question is what is the best practice to organize my
> seedfile to search
> for all SNMP enabled network devices regardless of
> ip?  I believe I can
> accomplish the task if I ensure that NetView "only"
> discover SNMP
> devices?
>  
> Thanks in advance,
>  
> Eric
>
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