Import nodes from a text file?

kbaumann

Does anyone know of a way to import nodes from a text file list?

I have about 400 remote routers, all connected via dual PVCs. If I use the autodiscovery to scan subnets for nodes, typically one or the other sub interfaces is listed as the node address. In the event that one interface is reported as down, the entire node is reported as down despite the dual path scenario I've described.

To further complicate matters, most (but not all) of these routers have dial backup capabilites.

What I'd really like to do is discover all nodes by the IP address of the e0 interfaces and then monitor the individual interfaces and generate a node down alert only if both (or all three in the case of dial backup) interfaces are down.

The simplest solution would be to use the seed file (I think). I've edited it following the example given, but haven't been able to get it to work thus far. Anyone else been able to make the seed file work??

Thanks in advance...

regards,

Ken Baumann
Network Services
Extendicare Health Services

Network_Guru

Hi Ken,

The solution to this problem is to use loopback addresses on all your routers.
As long as one interface is up, you should always have access
to the loopback address for monitoring. This way you will avoid
having duplicate entries for the same device in the database.

Using loopback addresses to manage routers is a common practice,
for the exact reasons you have mentioned.


-=Cheers=-
NG