yes you can do what you want in initial discovery section
I think you should do your discovery by writing all your routers
addresses in netmon seed file and also check the two options in netmon
seed editor:
- use this seed file for discovery
- limit discovery to this seed file (to ping ONLY those devices you
wrote in)

Lucian

杨海波 wrote:

>Hi, List.
> 
>Win2000+Netview 7.1.3
> 
>There are more than 40 routers should be guaranteed to be discoveried and 
>monitored. Other workstations need not be discovered or monitored. I set 
>'discover backbone' from netview console. But some other technicians told me, 
>my netivew box sends a lot of ping to their workstations and these 
>workstations are neither netwrok backbone devices nor boxes with snmp agent 
>installed. what's more, they are not displayed on my netview default map. (My 
>netview box is clear from Blaster Virus.)
> 
>Why does this happen? How should I solve this problem?
> 
>I want to edit my seed file to solve this. but the IP addresses for the 
>routers are not a range of IP. So I cannot put them into the Limited Discovery 
>section. My question here is: Can I put more than one IP address into the 
>'Initial Discovery Seed' section? In other word, Can I put all my routers into 
>the 'Initial Discovery Seed' section?
> 
>Thank you in advances.
> 
>Bruce Yang
>hbyang AT sysway DOT com
>bruceyoung AT 263 DOT net
>0086-755-26743243
>
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