[nv-l] Netview not discovering beyond serial links.

We're having a problem with autodiscovery on Netview (7.1.3). Therange for autodiscovery for the netmon daemon is configured as"Backbone". The daemon is discovering our LAN just fine, but doesn'tdiscover anything at the other end of any of our point to point serialinterfaces.

If I click on the serial interface in the Netview GUI and select"Display Object Information", the SNMP ifType is "Point to PointSerial(22)".

I not certain, but I think the problem might be related to the problemin the IBM document below. But the document doesn't really say whatthey changed to fix the problem, nor how to get a copy of the fix.

Have anyone on this list run into this problem before? Any ideas howto fix it?



IY42394: NETMON LINUX DOES NOT DISCOVER VIA CDPCACHE

APAR status

OPEN


Error description

With Netview for Linux.(all versions) customer was unable to
discover nodes in remote networks without prompts from seedfile
or ping. AIX Netview can discover the same nodes (router).
An efix was produced ontop of 7.1.3+pack1+IY39859+IY40257 level
that will let the numbered routers (serial interfaces only)
be discovered through CdpCache. NB ifType in if_to_sym = SERIAL
.
A fix was produced, and customer confirmed previously undiscover
nodes now are discovered, and has reported no other ill effects.

Local fix

workaround is always to add to seedfile, but customer required
automatic discovery method.

Problem summary

 

Problem conclusion

 

Temporary fix

 

Comments

 

APAR information

APAR number
IY42394

Reported component name
TIV NETVIW FOR

Reported component ID
5698NVW05

Reported release
713

Status
OPEN

PE
NoPE

HIPER
NoHIPER

Submitted date
2003-03-26

Closed date

Last modified date
2003-06-04


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