Re: [nv-l] netmon.seed

Happy Thanksgiving, from America, on our national holiday.The description of the seed file just isn't clear enough in thedocumentation. Adding an entry to the seed file PERMITS it to discoverthe addresses covered. Only an individual IP address FORCES a discovery(on Unix) or the explicit addressing of an address in the range with aPING or other NetView reference to the address.The second step is to read how discovery proceeds and Mario Behringaddressed that point. Including the individual address of a router willcause NetView to read the ARP cache on that node and proceed to discoverall the devices in the cache. Then it reads the caches in those devicesand the discover proceeds.In the early days the NetView development group thought that it wasinteresting to put in the entry 9.*.*.* (the IBM Class A network) andthe address of a router somewhere in the world (like Spain) and watchthe discovery proceed until the AIX machines of the day crashed fromthe overload. I still have a copy of the screen capture.

Bill Evans

Paqui Martinez Moreno/OPENSOLUTIONS wrote:

Hi All:Netview 7.1.4 FixPack1AIX 5.2I am trying to discover the objects using the netmon.seed and theoption to discover for wildcard including ranges .
The format of my seed files is:
 @limit_discovery
10.125.16.*
but this not works  ,  el Netview does not discover anything.
If I put the ip adrress : 10.125.16.1 it works fine , the object isdiscoveredThanks
IPaqui Martinez Moreno
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