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Source: QUAT-AB item 089023
Question:
My customer has two RS/6000 in High availabiity configuration with 9333-
501 HACMP . They have a token ring network and routers Cisco 4000 at this
Lan. Remotly they have 2501 (ETH) and 2502 (TR) routers (11 total ) and
about 6 RS/6000. In some places they have Netware 3.11 with Lan workplace
Lan Workgroup, AS/400 accesing remote token-ring terminals.
I have read that Netview has support for IP networks and can be used some
MIB's to manage some other devices as CISCO 4000 AND 2500 and Novell
Netware 3.11. What exactly each MIB does for CISCO AND NETWARE 3.11 ?
Which level of support will get my customer with this MIB's , graphics
especial information for each product ?
Could you help me to identify the configuration for this network, with
150 nodes, inlcuding MIB's this products ?
Does this MIB's are from IBM or we have to contact NOVELL and CISCO ?
Which software is good for Remote Source Route Bridging ( AS/400 to PC ),
managemente with Netview/6000 ?
Does Netview/6000 has additional pre-requisites other than AIX, and
LAN cards ?
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A: I will answer your questions in the order asked:
1) Yes, there are mib's available to manage Cisco routers/bridges.
Here is an incomplete list of the functions and variables
available to the Cisco mib that is shipped with NetView/6000:
RomID "octet string containing System Bootstrap and Version Id"
whyReload "octet string with reason system was last restarted"
hostname "name of the host in ascii characters."
domainName "domain name of the host."
authAddr "last SNMP authorization failure IP address."
bootHost "IP address of host last booted from."
ping "Supplies a way to ping a host from this entity."
freeMem "Return the amount of free memory in bytes."
bufferElFree "Number of Free buffer elements."
bufferElMax "Maximum number of buffer elements"
bufferElHit
bufferElMiss
bufferElCreate
bufferSmSize "Size of the small buffers."
bufferSmTotal
bufferSmFree
bufferSmMax
bufferSmHit
bufferSmMiss
bufferSmTrim
bufferSmCreate
bufferMdSize " Size of the medium buffers."
bufferMdTotal
bufferMdFree
bufferMdMax
bufferMdHit
bufferMdMiss
bufferMdTrim
bufferMdCreate
bufferBgSize "Size of the big buffers."
bufferBgTotal
bufferBgFree
bufferBgMax
bufferBgHit
bufferBgMiss
bufferBgTrim
bufferBgCreate
bufferLgSize
bufferLgTotal
bufferLgFree
bufferLgMax
bufferLgHit
bufferLgMiss
bufferLgTrim
bufferLgCreate
bufferFail "Count of the number of buffer create failures"
bufferNoMem "Count of number of create failures due to low memory"
netConfigAddr "Host that supplied network config file"
netConfigName "Host that supplied network config file"
netConfigSet "Permit loading of a new network-confg using TFTP."
hostConfigAddr "host that provided the host-config file."
hostConfigName "host that provided the host-config file."
hostConfigSet "Permit loading of a new host-config using TFTP."
writeMem "Write configuration into non-volatile memory."
*** NOTE **** this is about one tenth of the variables and functions
available. The complete list is too long to be included
here.
The Netware mib's shipped with NetView/6000 have many more
capabilities and a far too voluminous to list here.
However, to manage Netware 3.11 networks from NetView/6000, you must
also have LMU/6000 on the RISC and LMU2 on an OS/2 machine sitting
om the novell network. In this case, LMU2 does the data gathering,
then sends it to LMU/6000 to be managed.
These mibs may be retrieved from toolsdisk. IF you have access to
profs, just type 'toolcat aixtools' at your profs command prompt,
then look for the cisco and Netware mibs.
2) The normal AIX Support Family support comes with these products;
NetView can be ordered with full documentation, as well as the LMU
products. Not much information comes with the mibs, however.
3) If you wished to manage the entire network from a single RISC:
Install NetView/6000 on the RISC. Install the Cisco and Netware
MIBs ( either IBM's or third party ). Place an OS/2 machine
on each Novell 3.11 network, and install LMU2 on it. Install
Lan Management Utillities/6000 (LMU) on the RISC. If you wish to
manage the Remote Source Route Bridging over a FDDI or token-ring
network, you will need to connect another OS/2 machine to the
network and install Lan Management Utillities ( LNM2 ) on it.
You will then need to install LNM/6000 onto the RISC. This should
cover everything you said you wanted to manage.
4) IBM ships mibs for Novell Netware 3.11 and Cisco routers with
the NetView/6000 product, but there are many third party vendors
who market them as well.
5) I have appended the pre-install requirements for NetView v3
below:
PREREQ #1:
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Before you can install Netview for AIX V3 you will be REQUIRED to
apply the following AIX PTF's, or their supercede.
U432909 X11-R5 RUNTIME
U428198 X11-R5 RUNTIME
U428199 X11-R5 RUNTIME
U431144 X11-R5 RUNTIME
U428196 MOTIF 1.2 WINDOW MANAGER
U432350 MOTIF 1.2 WINDOW MANAGER
U433324 MOTIF 1.2 WINDOW MANAGER
U428290 SNMP DAEMON
Netview for AIX V3 install process prereq's these PTF's, if not on
machine at time of Netview for AIX V3 install, INSTALL WILL FAIL.
PREREQ #2:
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Before installing Netview for AIX V3 it is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
that you do the following:
IF MIGRATING FROM NETVIEW/6000 V1 OR V2 IT IS HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
THAT THE FOLLOWING TO DONE BEFORE DOING ANY THING ELSE.
1. MAKE A COMPLETE SYSTEM BACKUP TO TAPE.
- EXIT ALL NETVIEW/6000 INTERFACES.
- STOP SNMPD DAEMON, "stopsrc -s snmpd".
- TAR /usr/OV TO TAPE, "tar -cvf (device) /usr/OV"
3. LABEL AND SAVE BOTH OF THESE TAPES IN A SAFE PLACE. THESE
TAPES MAY BE REQUIRED FOR MIGRATION DEBUGGING BY IBM SOFTWARE
SUPPORT.
4. NOW PLEASE CONTINUE INSTALL PROCESS BY REFERRING TO
INSTALL AND CONFIGURATION GUIDE.
PREREQ #3:
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ADDITIONAL HELPFUL INFORMATION;
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RAM RECOMMENDATIONS:
THE AMOUNT OF RAM REQUIRED IS BASED UPON THE SIZE OF YOUR NETWORK AND
THE NUMBER OF CONCURRENT USERS. IN THE CHART BELOW, AN "OBJECT" IS
A DATABASE ENTRY THAT RELATES TO ALL OR PART OF A NETWORK DEVICE. TO
DETERMINE HOW MANY OBJECTS ARE IN YOUR NETVIEW FOR AIX DATABASE, TYPE
"/usr/OV/bin/ovobjprint -S"
IF YOU DO NOT HAVE NETVIEW FOR AIX INSTALLED, THEN THE NUMBER OF
OBJECTS WILL BE APPROXIMATELY 2 TO 3 TIMES THE NUMBER OF ADDRESSABLE
DEVICES IN YOUR NETWORK.
NUMBER OF OBJECTS RECOMMENDED RAM (ONE USER) (MB)
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0-1999 48 (VERSION 2), 64 (VERSION 3)
2000-4999 64
5000-9999 80
10000-14999 96
15000-20000 112
>20000 >112
32 MB OF EXTRA RAM IS REQUIRED FOR EACH ADDITIONAL OPERATOR.
FURTHERMORE, IF YOU ARE USING ADDITIONAL APPLICATIONS LIKE
TROUBLETICKET, THEN YOU MAY REQUIRE MORE MEMORY.
CONSULT THE APPLICATION'S DOCUMENTATION TO DETERMINE
EXACTLY HOW MUCH MORE MEMORY YOU MAY NEED.
AS AN EXAMPLE, A MANAGING STATION FOR A NETWORK WITH
1000 ADDRESSABLE DEVICES (APPROXIMATELY 3000 OBJECTS),
ONE ADDITIONAL USER ON AN XSTATION, AND NO ADDITIONAL
APPLICATIONS WOULD REQUIRE 96 MB OF RAM.
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TO DETERMINE HOW MUCH MEMORY YOUR CURRENT SYSTEM HAS, TYPE
"lscfg | grep mem"
PAGE SPACE RECOMMENDATIONS:
YOU SHOULD HAVE A MINIMUM OF 192 MB OF PAGE SPACE.
RAM (MB) PAGE SPACE SIZE (MB)
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48 192
64 192
80 240
96 288
128 320
160 400
192 480
256 512
320 640
384 768
448 896
512 1024
>512 MULTIPLY RAM BY 2
AS A GENERAL RULE, PAGE SPACE SHOULD BE:
3 X RAM FOR SMALL (48-96 MB) MEMORIES
2.5 X RAM FOR MEDIUM (128-192 MB) MEMORIES
2 X RAM FOR LARGE (256+ MB) MEMORIES
BUT REMEMBER THAT YOUR PAGE SPACE SHOULD BE AT LEAST 192 MB
TO DETERMINE HOW MUCH PAGE SPACE YOU HAVE, TYPE
"lsps -a"
YOU CAN USE SMIT TO INCREASE THE SIZE OF YOUR PAGE SPACE.
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FILESYSTEM RECOMMENDATIONS:
FILESYSTEM SPACE FREE (KB)
/USR/OV 20000
/TMP 5000
/VAR 5000
TO DETERMINE HOW MUCH FILESYSTEM SPACE YOU HAVE,
GO INTO EACH SUBDIRECTORY LISTED ABOVE AND TYPE
"df".
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As well as the following requirements:
o IBM AIX Version 3.2.5 for RISC System/6000 (5756-030)
o AIXwindows Environment/6000 (5601-257) with the then current
release at the planned availability date
I hope that I have answered all of your questions, if not, please
re-open this item and I will be glad to tend to your questions.
Thank You.
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This item was created from library item Q675209 I0772
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Dated: 01/1995 Category: RISCWT
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