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Conference netcad::hub_mgnt

Title:DEChub/HUBwatch/PROBEwatch CONFERENCE
Notice:Firmware -2, Doc -3, Power -4, HW kits -5, firm load -6&7
Moderator:NETCAD::COLELLADT
Created:Wed Nov 13 1991
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:4455
Total number of notes:16761

3392.0. "DS90TL in a HUB90" by IJSAPL::VISSER_A () Fri Mar 22 1996 08:33

Hello,

  I recently installed Hubwatch at a customer site and I had some
  problems with a DS90TL in a HUB90. I did the following:

- Installed and configured a standalone DECagent90 
- configured the bridge who is in a hub90 slot 8 
- I was able to manage the repeaters in this hub. (slot 1&2)
- I did an 'ADD module' in slot 3 for the DS90TL
  I had to fill in the Hardware addres -> is this normal? I also
  needed to fil in the IP addres. I always thought that IP does an ARP
  to get the HW addres.
  After this the management worked. When I exit Hubwatch and I start
  it again and I tried to dubble click the DS90TL I get the error
  there is no MAC addres assosiated with this module.

- I can configure the DS90TL stand alone in the community table and
  then I can manage this servers as if it is stand alone. But... The
  customer has over 100 DS's and he needs to be able to dubble click
  the server in a hub.

Anton Visser,
Network Services Holland.
    
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3392.1You forgot something, Anton!SLINK::HOODYour bad news bearFri Mar 22 1996 10:4414
Anton, 

You need to add the 90TL to your HUBwatch agents file.  
"Community->Manage Table" window.

>  I had to fill in the Hardware addres -> is this normal? I also
>  needed to fil in the IP addres. I always thought that IP does an ARP
>  to get the HW addres.
Yes. The DECagent 90 only returns the MAC address of the DECserver 90TL
to HUBwatch.  HUBwatch needs to know the IP address.

This is all documented in the HUBwatch installation & configuration manual.

Tom Hood
3392.2Server is in agent file, but stop/start HW is the problemIJSAPL::VISSER_ATue Apr 02 1996 04:1811
    Hello Tom,
    
    I did add this server into the community table. The problem is that
    after exiting hubwatch and starting again there is nothing changed in
    the configuration (The server is in the hub visable and in the agent
    file) but I can not dubble click this server in the hub.
    
    So there seems to be something different when you exit hubwatch and
    start again.
    
    Anton Visser.
3392.3Slot polling disabled?SLINK::HOODYour bad news bearTue Apr 02 1996 11:421
When you did the Configure->Add Module, did you disable slot polling?
3392.4Yes I disabled polling.IJSAPL::VISSER_AWed Apr 03 1996 02:497
    Hello Tom,
    
    Yes I disabled the polling. In fact I tried al the possibilities in
    this function: red, green, first gray, second gray (whatever these
    gray's mean).
    
    Anton.
3392.5this may help...IAMOSI::LEUNGDennis Leung, Sydney CSCWed Apr 03 1996 03:4310
I had a similar problem and found that only after upgrading the modules to the
latest firmware version, the problem was solved. May be, you can check if you
have the same firmware.

Firmware used to get it to work :
DS90Tl with V1.1A BL45-11
DecAgent90 with V3.0.1
DecBridge90 V3.9

Dennis
3392.6Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Checkbox?SLINK::HOODYour bad news bearWed Apr 03 1996 12:0010
    >Yes I disabled the polling. In fact I tried al the possibilities in
    >    this function: red, green, first gray, second gray (whatever these
    >    gray's mean).
    
    Hmmm... It's supposed to be a checkbox. By default, slot polling
    is enabled.
    
    Confusedly yours,
    Tom Hood
    not-so-clearVISN eng
3392.7Latest revisions used!IJSAPL::VISSER_AThu Apr 04 1996 10:4011
    Thanks Dennis for your input but....
    
    I upgraded the DECagent90 and the DECbridge90 to the latest versions
    (V3.0.1 and V3.9) and the DECserver 90TL uses V1.1A BL45-11 rom 2.0.0
    
    Tom, 
    
    Did I make a mistake and do I have to use a different way in disabeling
    the polling?
    
    Anton.
3392.8Just a single button.SLINK::HOODYour bad news bearThu Apr 04 1996 10:599
    Anton,
    
    In the HUBwatch Configuration -> Add Module window (near the bottom
    half of that window) is a check-box for slot polling.  By default
    when you add a module, the check-box is in the enable slot polling
    state.  You want to change it to disable.  No multi-colors or anything
    like that.  Just a single button.  
    
    Tom 
3392.9HUB900 or HUB90?IJSAPL::VISSER_AThu Apr 11 1996 11:277
    Hello Tom,
    
    Aren't you describing a DS90TL in a hub900? Last week I did a test and
    I could not see the enable or disable but the red/green/gray/gray
    button. Perhaps You are using a HUB900? I have a hub90 with a agent90.
    
    Anton.
3392.10Should be a 2-position pushbutton?SLINK::HOODYour bad news bearThu Apr 11 1996 14:407
    Nope, it doesn't matter.  The Add Module window has (should have) a 
    pushbutton (two-position) for slot polling.
    
    I'm tele-commuting today and don't have HUBwatch for Macintosh installed
    here, but I'll double-check it when I'm in the office.
    
    Tom