I'd like to know about the automatic discovery function of
NetView/6000.
The manual(SC31-6196-00) says, "However, if a few node never
communicates with a gateway or other nodes on the network that supports
SNMP, NetView/6000 may not find it.", in its page 88.
Q. Does NetView/6000 read the ARP cache of gateways and some MIB values
of SNMP agents to run the automatic discovery function?
If not, how does it come to know the existence of nodes beyond
gateways?
ANSWER
The discovery algorithms and approaches are not all published by HP and
IBM.
Based upon my experience: yes, the ARP cache is read; how, exactly,
the discovery algorithms use this information is not published.
AIX NetView/6000 does use MIB values to see (for example) if a node is
a gateway (for example, if SNMP is not up,
the node is not identified as a gateway).
S e a r c h - k e y w o r d s:
AIX NETVIEW/6000 DISCOVERY
WWQA: ITEM: RTA000073516 ITEM: RTA000073516
Dated: 05/1996 Category: ITSCSAIXNV6
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