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Conference azur::mcc

Title:	DECmcc user notes file. Does not replace IPMT.
Notice:	Use IPMT for problems. Newsletter location in note 6187
Moderator:	TAEC::BEROUD

Created:	Mon Aug 21 1989
Last Modified:	Wed Jun 04 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	6497
Total number of notes:	27359

1758.0. "ETHERnim Conversion Not Working" by MAIL::CLAYTON (Merlin Clayton DTN 445-7217) Mon Nov 04 1991 11:09

I recently tried using the Ethernim data base conversion tool provided with
mcc to help a customer migrate his Ethernim environment to mcc.

The customer's single site LAN environment consists of approx 20 DECnet nodes,
and 80 DECserver 200/300's.

When I ran the MCC_ENIM_CONVERT_MAIN.exe image, I wanted to edit the 
MCC_LOAD_ETHERNIM_STATIONS.COM procedure to delete all of the phase IV nodes,
and just keep the terminal servers to register is the Ethernet Station AM.
Upon editing this .COM procedure, I found out that ONLY the Phase IV nodes 
were listed as stations, and N-O-N-E of the terminal servers were listed
in the COM procedure.  I double checked Ethernim to make sure that the 
terminal servers were seen and reachable from the topology map, and indeed
they were.  I deleted all Phase IV node from the Ethernim map and kept only
terminal servers on the map and re-ren the conversion procedure.  Nothing
at all was entered in the .COM file.

Isn't this conversion procedure supposed to pick up ALL devices registered 
in the Ethernim data base?

If not, Why?

If so, can someone give me an indication why it may not be working?

Thanks.

Merlin

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
1758.1	Did the DECservers have names?	CHRISB::BRIENEN	DECmcc Bridge\|Station\|SNMP Management.	`Tue Nov 05 1991 08:42`	2
	Did the DECserver 200/300s in the ETHERnim database have names assigned to them?
1758.2	No Names, Just Numbers	MAIL::CLAYTON	Merlin Clayton DTN 445-7217	`Tue Nov 05 1991 09:46`	9
	Now that you mention it, No they did not have names assigned. They were all discovered with the monitor sysid function. They were only identified by their relative position on the Ethernet segment. Is this the problem? Merlin
1758.3	No Names = No Conversion...	CHRISB::BRIENEN	DECmcc Bridge\|Station\|SNMP Management.	`Tue Nov 05 1991 11:02`	6
	That's the problem. If an entity doesn't have a name in the ETHERnim database, it won't get picked up by the conversion utility. Chris
1758.4	Other Options?	MAIL::CLAYTON	Merlin Clayton DTN 445-7217	`Wed Nov 06 1991 11:59`	25
	O.K. Time to back up and regroup. Is there a utility, official or otherwise, that can be used to convert the TSM configuration data dile into a DECmcc Enet station configuration procedure? The customer has all of their servers defined in TSM and would like an easy way to register them as Ethernet stations within MCC. Seems like a reasonable request since there is about 100 servers currently defined for TSM and the customer asks, "Why should I have to manually redefine these servers for MCC when I already spent time and effort doing it for TSM?" Anyone have any insight on such a utility? Would it be difficult to convert the MCC_TSM_CONVERT.EXE utility to register the converted TSM data as Ethernet stations instead of terminal servers? This is quickly turning into a customer satisfaction issue that I'm trying to resolve peacefully. Thanks. Merlin
1758.5	probably	TOOK::CASSIDY	Linda, LKG2-2/BB10, DTN 226-7270	`Wed Nov 06 1991 12:19`	10
	I wrote the TSM conversion utility, but I have no experience with DECmcc station configuration. I would expect that coming up with an alternate conversion utility would be very easy. I will have to learn a little about the station configuration commands. If you need something immediately (it sounds like you do), send me the syntax the station AM requires and I'll see what I can do. - Linda