You might want to review the functions of the seed file in the 
Installation Manual or the help.

Ranges do not force discovery, they only permit discovery.
Only individual entries will force discovery, as you found out
netmon explicitly seeks those interfaces/nodes at start up.
For the others he reads the arp cache of what he has already discovered.
That's why routers are good candidates for the seed file.

By adding a range you have limited discovery to just what is in that 
range.
If netmon finds anything else, it will throw it away.
So you can prevent discovery of anything outside the individual entries in 
the seed file by adding an invalid range such as 3.3.3.* at the end of 
your file.

James Shanks
Level 3 Support  for Tivoli NetView for UNIX and NT
Tivoli Software / IBM Software Group




john.j.mackney AT accenture DOT com
09/24/2002 11:38 AM

 
        To:     nv-l AT lists.tivoli DOT com
        cc: 
        Subject:        [nv-l] More on netmon.seed ranges

 

Is my logic correct?

a netmon.seed entry of:
10.250.0.1-254

Should discover all the nodes in range (if it works).

It doesn't work for me!!

However, If I enter nodes exactly it discovers them i.e.
10.250.0.25
10.250.0.37

This looks like a bug... Is anyone else using Solaris 8 and NetView 7.1.2?


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