Hi John,
If you setup netmon to use MLMs for status polling, the algorithm says that
netmon parcels up everything on the same subnet as the MLM that netmon is
currently monitoring, creating one or more alias tables.  netmon then ships out
those alias tables to the MLM who starts polling.  netmon should automatically
stop polling other devices on that same network - he will continue to poll the
MLM.  If netmon sees the MLM has died, he automatically resumes authority for
polling those devices until the MLM is back up.

Cheers,
Jane

john.j.mackney AT accenture DOT com wrote:

> This is fairly fundamental methinks.
>
> 1) If I set my MLMs to manage topology and traps, should I turn off poling
> on my NetView server, or does NetView automatically stop poling and let the
> MLM do it. My concern is that if I don't turn on NetView poling, NetView
> won't discover the MLMs, but if I do turn on poling, maybe NetView will
> start managing the same nodes as the MLMs.
>
> I don't want to overload the network with poling from two sources?
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