Leslie,
Thanks for the help, the line remained red
for about 5minutes after a delete and rediscover. What you described in details
previous is exactly what I experience. I tried changing the Propagate Most
Critical feature which cause the routers to turn red
but the line remained black. I think I may well call support, although I have
noticed that netmon.trace was written after one of the nodes was re-discovered.
In netmon.trace I get "Node 'XXX' is in incorrect network,
delete the node and rediscover", yet the subnetting on the serial
interface is correct at both ends of the link. The secondary path is via an
alternative router at the same site.
Appreciate the thoughts though.
Regards
Peter
-----Original
Message-----
From: Leslie Clark
[mailto:lclark AT us.ibm DOT com]
Sent: 13 July 2004 16:33
To: nv-l AT lists.us.ibm DOT com
Subject: RE: [nv-l] Point to Point
link color status change
It may help if you are really clear about how serial
networks are represented.
For
a serial connection, networks and segments are drawn as straight lines instead
of a bubbles.
If
there are multiple serial connections between the routers, the first click is
into the metaconnection submap.
If
you right-mouse the line, it says 'Symbol: xx.xx.xx' where xx.xx.xx is the
network address.
(Aside:
I believe these used to say 'Network:', but now all symbols seem to be
labeled this way.)
When
you double-click on the line, the network submap is shown.
In
the network submap, you will see both end devices connected by a straight line,
and that line is the segment symbol. If yo uright-mouse that line, it says
'Symbol: Segment1'
When
you double-click on that line, the segment submap is shown.
In
the segment submap, you will see both end devices connected by a black circle.
That circle is normal for serial segments.
The
lines connecting those devices to that circle represent the serial interfaces.
Those
are the ones with status.
Remember
that status of a device shown in a segment or network is for that segment or
network only.
You
should expect status propogation of these interfaces to behave the same as it
does for non-serial networks and segments. If it is not, then you should pursue
it with Support. The color of these things is controlled by
/usr/OV/app-defaults/OVw by these records:
OVw*unknownStatusLineColor:
SkyBlue
OVw*downStatusLineColor:
red
OVw*marginalStatusLineColor:
yellow
OVw*upStatusLineColor:
black
OVw*unmanagedStatusLineColor:
wheat
OVw*acknowledgedStatusLineColor:
LimeGreen
OVw*user1StatusLineColor:
black
OVw*user2StatusLineColor:
black
I
would expect the top level line to be yellow (marginal) if one of the
contributors is red, provided you are using the default propgation scheme.
There are other propogation schemes, and perhaps yours have been changed. If
you want it to be red rather than yellow, you do have the option of 'Propogate
Most Critical', but this option applies across the board. The propogation
scheme is configured under 'File..Describe Map'.
Cordially,
Leslie A. Clark
IBM Global Services - Systems Mgmt & Networking
(248) 552-4968 Voicemail, Fax, Pager
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Paul,
If I double click on the link I get a sub map
showing two routers, both red
with a red link between them. If I then double
click on the red link again I
get a symbol representing a ring with two red
routers attached to the ring.
The two paths to the routers are actually diverse
from the IP level; one
goes via the E3 the other via an Ethernet
connection into another router.
If my ascii art works I have the following
--FE--RTR--E3--RTR--FE
which in turns represents one side of a square. I
would like the E3 link to
appear red at the top most IP map.
Checking the interface submap shows the interface
type as serial, I think
ring is the default network symbol.
Reagrds
Peter
-----Original Message-----
From: Paul [mailto:pstroud AT bellsouth DOT net]
Sent: 13 July 2004 15:35
To: nv-l AT lists.us.ibm DOT com
Subject: Re: [nv-l] Point to Point link color
status change
Peter,
Is it a meta-connection, in other words a
connection showing
multiple paths? If so, that may be what you are
seeing, while
one line is down, the other is still up so you
still have
connectivity. Double-click on the black line, does
it show you
anything?
Paul
Peter.Ingleson AT atradius DOT com wrote:
> List,
>
>
>
> I'm running NV 7.1.4 with fixpack 1 on AIX
5.1 ML5.
>
>
>
> I have several routers with point to point E3
connections, all are
> managed via their loopback addresses via SNMP
each having two separate
> pathways back to the netview station. I've
noticed that when one of
> these connections is down the interface
changes to red, the higher
> level router symbol changes to yellow but the
line representing the E3
> link remains black. For other routers simply
connecting via one link
> to another router the links will change
colour as appropriate.
>
>
>
> Do I need to do anything to force the link to
change to red\yellow to
> indicate a failure?
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Peter
>
>
>
>
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