Paul,
I tried your suggestion below and the node did not appear in
netmon.trace until it was back up on the network.  I have since deleted
and readded the node to netview via seed file editor.  I'll have to wait
for another occurrence If I want to resolve this.  Thanks for your help.
Eric
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Eric Zoeckler, IT Analyst, DCO/NCC
Niagara Mohawk-National Grid USA
Phone:  315-460-2519
Eric.Zoeckler AT us.ngrid DOT com


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Subject: Re: [nv-l] Failed ping stays green


Eric,
Running a "netmon -a 12" will dump the ping status list into the 
netmon.trace.
This should show you the next time this device will be polled, it will 
show you
something like this:

---------- pingList [0x82ba2b0] ----------
** 94 elements on the IF list **
  3: 10.22.33.44 (test123) list = 0x82ba2b0

That shows 3 seconds until that interface will be polled.

Also, the ICMP vs SNMP, NetView will sometimes make that decision for
you. If the device has a unnumbered serial interface it should be being 
polled via
SNMP. You can check for sure by running an "ovtopodump <selection name>"
then looking for SNMP STATUS POLL and if it is MAXIMUM TIME, then the
device is being polled via ICMP. You can also look to see when the last
poll was by looking at the LAST SUCCESSFUL POLL in the interfaces
portion of the ovotpodump command.

Other then that, you would have to trace netmon to see what it is doing.

Paul


Zoeckler, Eric A. wrote:

>Paul,
>Thanks for your reply.  I'm not doing any snmp status polling, and the 
>status of the object is Normal/Up. Eric
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>On Behalf Of Paul
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>Subject: Re: [nv-l] Failed ping stays green
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>Sounds like it might be being polled via SNMP instead of ICMP. Also, 
>you can check the object properties to make sure the object is not in 
>Critical status and just incorrectly reprensented on the map....
>
>Paul
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>Zoeckler, Eric A. wrote:
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>>NV 7.1.4 on AIX 5.2
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>>What would cause the map node to stay green when ping fails?
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>>Background:
>>On backup netview box node goes down.  On primary box node is up.  
>>When
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>>I do a manual ping from the primary box the ping fails, but the node
>>stays green.  IP address is the same on both boxes.
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>>Thank you,
>>Eric
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>>Eric Zoeckler, IT Analyst, DCO/NCC
>>Niagara Mohawk-National Grid USA
>>Phone:  315-460-2519
>>Eric.Zoeckler AT us.ngrid DOT com
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