hi!

this may be an issue of having auto-discovery turned on.

do you use auto-discovery or a netmon-seedfile ?

cheers,

--
fredo

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jermyn, Michael MR [mailto:Michael.Jermyn AT defence.gov DOT au]
> Sent: Monday, December 06, 2004 12:27 AM
> To: 'nv-l AT lists.us.ibm DOT com'
> Subject: sec:unclas : [nv-l] sec:unclas Netview & Nortel
>
>
> Fredo,
> the issue is that the Nortel and Cabletron kit get deleted
> and created from
> the NV map very regularly. This I believe will cause big
> problems when we
> integrate NV into the TEC and trouble tickets start getting
> generating and
> our configuration board will go crazy with all these devices
> continually
> being deleted and discovered.
> 
> Do you also have these issues?
> 
> Regards
> 
>
> Mick Jermyn
> Network Management Administrator
> Defence Network Operations Centre
> HMAS Harman
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: REIBENSCHUH Alfred [mailto:alfred.reibenschuh AT it-austria DOT com]
> Sent: Friday, 3 December 2004 23:11
> To: 'nv-l AT lists.us.ibm DOT com'
> Subject: RE: [nv-l] sec:unclas Netview & Nortel
>
>
>
> hi!
>
> we have also those nortel passport 8k and cabletron layer3 switches.
>
> your best route would be to modify oid_to_type, since both devices
> ARE layer3 switches and oid_to_type should reflect that, especially
> if you're running ITSA.
>
>
> cheers,
>
> --
> fredo
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jermyn, Michael MR [ mailto:Michael.Jermyn AT defence.gov DOT au
> <mailto:Michael.Jermyn AT defence.gov DOT au> ]
> > Sent: Friday, December 03, 2004 2:17 AM
> > To: 'nv-l AT lists.us.ibm DOT com'; nv-l AT lists.tivoli DOT com
> > Subject: [nv-l] sec:unclas Netview & Nortel
> >
> >
> > All,
> > we are having a few issues regarding Netview and modelling of
> > Nortel equip,
> > especially the Passport 8600 series.
> > These devices can operate as either a layer2 switch only,
> > and/or perform a
> > routeing function.
> > NV seems to be confused on how to show these devices and is
> > displaying them
> > all as routers even though they are only performing a layer 2
> > function in
> > the network (a small percentage also perform a routing
> > function, therefore
> > we cannot make a blanket change in oid_to_type).
> > These devices are then either removed from the map and
> re-discovered
> > daily/weekly(intermittently) etc, or duplicated on the map.
> > Has anyone some ideas on how I can resolve this?
> >
> > PS we are having similar issues with Cabletron equip.
> >
> > Mick Jermyn
> >
>