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>> Q1: How many nodes in a domain is the S/W set for, and can it be
>> changed in this version ?
Maximun is 40 and minimun is 3 per domain.
>> Q2: Is there any way that the autoconfig can interogate either a
>> router or a nodes NCP database for other known nodes, in order to
>> reduce the time that it searches for nodes ?
Autoconfig does the configuration search based on the router(s) discovered
by UCX. In general, you should not need to change this/these in the .CF
file, but you may add distant router(s) for your need. However, real
time consuming process is the NCP command on these discovered nodes.
Autoconfig has no control on speeding up NCP processes.
>> Q3: What does the IP autoconfiguration rely on in order to discover
>> nodes ? Is this a lengthy process as well, as we are in an evaluation
>> against HP's OPENview, which has very good autodiscovery (for IP
>> devices) ?
Autoconfig issues UCX commands to discover nodes. The performance
of this discovery process should be compatible with HP.
>> Q4: Once all nodes are discovered and registered, is there a way of
>> discovering new nodes without repeating what you have already done in a
>> new domain ?
The current Autoconfig is not providing this capability. We are
working on new AutoDiscovery function to include this feature in some
future release.
Regards,
JoAnn
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| JoAnn,
Thanks for the reply, but I am still a little unclear.
>> Q1: How many nodes in a domain is the S/W set for, and can it be
>> changed in this version ?
Are you referring to PhaseIV or IP ? If PhaseIV, what is the config
file to edit ?
>> Q2: Is there any way that the autoconfig can interogate either a
>> router or a nodes NCP database for other known nodes, in order to
>> reduce the time that it searches for nodes ?
Your answer refers to UCX. Is there a way that this can be done within
the PhaseIV autoconfig ?
Currently the only way to discover remote DECnet nodes is to search for
adjacencies, and this means interogating every node. Can it go to a
remote NCP database for example, and get a list of all available nodes
from that database ? This would speed up the configuration time
considerabley, and verification of reachability could be done at
registration time.
Q: Is there a clean way of doing a configuration in a network that has
routers that do not support NICE ? I tried following the example in
the manual of specifying a seed node on the far side of the router, but
it went straight to the router, then failed.
Regards,
Reece..
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>> Q1: How many nodes in a domain is the S/W set for, and can it be
>> changed in this version ?
Are you referring to PhaseIV or IP ? If PhaseIV, what is the config
file to edit ?
>>I meant for the IP Autoconfiguration (isn't it what you are trying
>>to do?) ... The min and max numbers refer to the number of hosts connected
>>in a domain and are used by the IP autoconfig mapper algorium.
>> Q2: Is there any way that the autoconfig can interogate either a
>> router or a nodes NCP database for other known nodes, in order to
>> reduce the time that it searches for nodes ?
Your answer refers to UCX. Is there a way that this can be done within
the PhaseIV autoconfig ?
>>UCX is used by IP Autoconfig to discover the default router to start
>>with. By the way, the configuration file generated by this utility
>>is "MCC_<your_domain_name>.CF".
Currently the only way to discover remote DECnet nodes is to search for
adjacencies, and this means interogating every node. Can it go to a
remote NCP database for example, and get a list of all available nodes
from that database ? This would speed up the configuration time
considerabley, and verification of reachability could be done at
registration time.
>>You are talking about the DECnet Phase IV Autoconfiguration utility
>>here, right? Basically, it executes the following NCP commands:
>> NCP> TELL <node> SHOW EXEC CHAR
>> NCP> TELL <node> SHOW ACTIVE CIRCUIT
>> NCP> TELL <node> SHOW LINE <circuit> CHAR
>>The Phase IV autoconfig utility rely on output from these commands.
>>I don't think you can do any tuning within the utility at the moment.
Q: Is there a clean way of doing a configuration in a network that has
routers that do not support NICE ? I tried following the example in
the manual of specifying a seed node on the far side of the router, but
it went straight to the router, then failed.
>>I don't have good answer for this. We can not test everything in our
>>environment. Some work, and some don't ... Hopefully, there will be
>>a plan to clean this up in the future.
Regards,
JoAnn
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