The original posting was:
> Hi Managers,
>
> I am currently running SunNet Manager 2.0 on a Sun IPX running 4.1.3. Here at Ford, I have the tremendous
> task of updating the runtime database to reflect all nodes on our net. Unfortunately, we bring in new
> machines constantly and we have a vast number of subnets. Is it possible to run discover at intervals
> to search for new nodes on our net without running manually?
>
> Thanks in advance.
Thanks to all who have responded. The following was sent by glenn@unip.com.au and pjw@sma.usna.navy.MIL;
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>From ups!uniq.com.au!glenn@warrane.connect.com.au Sun Jun 20 20:14:48 1993
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 93 08:20:46 EST
From: glenn@uniq.com.au (Glenn Satchell - Uniq Professional Services)
To: twhitely@tr1072.to.ford.com
Subject: Re: SunNet Manager Discover Tool.
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Sure, have a look at the man page for snm-discover. You could run it
from cron at whatever period you liked. Note that you probably need to
put this into a script which cron runs. In the script set SNMHOME and
possibly the user SNMDBDIR (I thinkm, the manual is not around at the
moment to look this up).
Not that you need to run one copy of snm_discover for each subnet, eg:
#!/bin/sh
SNMHOME=/usr/snm
PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/ucb:$SNMHOME/bin
export PATH SNMHOME
for i in net1 net2 net3; do
snm_discover $i &
done
regards,
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Uniq Professional Services Pty Ltd ACN 056 279 335 | peacefully in my sleep
PO Box 70, Paddington, NSW 2021, (Sydney) Australia | like my Grandfather,
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>From pjw@sma.usna.navy.MIL Fri Jun 18 19:06:01 1993
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 93 19:06:42 EDT
From: pjw@sma.usna.navy.MIL (Peter J. Welcher -- math FACULTY <pjw@sma.usna.navy.MIL>)
To: twhitely@tr1072.to.ford.com
Subject: Re: SunNet Manager Discover Tool.
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You might note that SNM has a 1024 object limitation, so doing
major discovers isn't all that useful.
However, if you do 'snm_discover -w -v' as root in a window,
then ping new hosts (or otherwise send traffic to them), they automagically
get passively discovered and put into the SNM database.
So it would be easy to combine this with a pinging script that pings
hosts recently added to host tables (use diff to get the list), to
automatically "notice" new hosts. Probably simpler than running
discover on a whole bunch of subnets.
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