Re: Possibility to collapse discovered nodes? (was: Re: How to

Louis A. Mamakos (louie@TransSys.COM)
Fri, 06 Dec 1996 21:18:16 -0500

I did a quick and dirty hack to ip_discover to fetch the system name
SNMP variable, and use that as the unique identifier for a node. I
originally had the same problem as you; in a WAN network with many
point-to-point links it created *a* *lot* of nodes :-)

louie

> While we're at the subject of rearranging a discovered network, I'd
> like to raise a problem that actually made me give up on using tkined
> for the moment:
>
> When I ran the discovery tool on our backbone network, it generated
> one node for each router *interface* (of which there are hundreds )-:
> I assume that the idea is to represent each physical router as a
> single node, with an outgoing edge for each interface.
>
> Is there any possibility to "collapse" several interface nodes to a
> router node or do I have to learn how to edit the configuration file
> by hand?
>
> Can I do anything to help the discovery process find out which
> interfaces belong to the same router?
> --
> Simon Leinen.
> SWITCH
>