We have CPU reports set to run daily for some of our higher priority switches, and we've noticed that some of the data isn't meshing with what we see on the switch. We have one heavily utilized switch that reports near 100% CPU utilization sometimes. I can do a "show proc cpu history" on that switch and see that at least once an hour over 72 hours, we'll see a near 100% CPU utilization. The problem is that these spikes never appeare on any of our reports. We'd like to see this info because even if the switch spikes for just a few seconds or a minute, it could still indicate that we may have issues. Without that in the report, we may never realize there could be a problem. Is there a way for this info to show in the report? I'm under the impression that if LMS polls the switch and doesn't see a high utilization average, then maybe it doesnt' enter that in the report. I guess I'd just like to know how often it pulls this data, and how it decides wath the Min, Max, and Averages are. Thanks for any help! Tim ... View more

Hi everybody, Does LMS 4.0 support the management of Nexus 7000 VDCs? I don't need it do be able to do anything complex. I was just interested in syslog, polling, and config fetches. I can poll and ping the management IPs of the VDCs from the command line of the server itself, but it stays questioned and "UNKNOWN" in the device list. The admin context of the Nexus 7000s are being added just fine. We recently built 4.0, coming from LMS 2.6. LMS 2.6 appears to add the VDC to the DCR without issue, but 4.0 does not. I just want to make sure that I'm not missing something. Thanks for the help! Tim ... View more

Hi, I recently did a restore from backup on my LMS server (running on Solaris 9) and I've run into a few issues. AniServer and jrm server don't appear to be starting at startup. When I DO manually try to launch jrm, it shows up as "waiting to initialize" and gets no further. The hostname on the box hasn't changed, and I've already verified that the jrmuser.properties file has it correct. If I actually click the process under Common Services>Admin>Processes, it shows that these processes should start at bootup. One of the issues I'm seeing in daemons.log is this error: Error EDSAT0001: Cannot connect to EDS Atom Service. It looks like EDS is running as though, so I'm not sure why this would be. I looked this up on the forum and found a Windows fix for it (set services to manual), but I'm not sure how to fix this in solaris. Do any of you all have any ideas, or have you seen this before on solaris? Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks! TIM ... View more

Hi, We had a server crash and when I brought it back up, LMS is having some issues. I imagine this is due to the database not being shut down cleanly. I did a self test and got the message below. I've tried restarting dmgtd but no dice. LMS 2.6 is running on a Solaris 9. Any assistance with this is greatly appreciated. Thanks! database.pl FAIL     Self Test Fail to query dfmInv.DbVersion, Error: Database server not found (DBD: login failed)      Self Test Fail to query dfmInv.SYSTABLE, Error: Database server not found (DBD: login failed) Tim ... View more

Running LMS 2.6 with RME version 4.0.6, and DFM 2.0.13. We keep getting false alerts in DFM on the temperature in our Nexus 7000 switches. The alert says that the high temp threshold is 45C, and it's being exceeded at 46C. The thing that bothers me is that the actual switch reads that the threshold is around 100C or more. Any ideas as to why DFM would be picking up a temperature so far off the mark? Also, in regards to RME, I cannot pull configs from the Nexus 7000's. The check box in "archive config" is blanked out to where I can't check it. I download the device packages for the 7000 into RME but it will not pull configs. Is this not supported under our version of RME, or would there be some other reason that I can't do this? Thanks for any assistance with these issues! ... View more

Hi, I'm having an interesting problem that I thought you guys could help me with. I'm running LMS 2.6 with DFM 2.0.13. About once or twice every couple of weeks, I will see an alarms hit DFM saying that a bunch of cards are missing from switches. It will basically tell me that the cards no longer exist in the switch, but when I log into the switches to check on them, the cards are all status "OK." If I do a rediscovery on the switches, the alarms will eventually disappear. Initially I thought that this was due to an ifindex change in the SNMP information, but we have "ifindex persist" set on all of the switches, so the ifindex numbers shouldn't change. Has anybody else seen anything like this before, or know of a way I can either fix or workaround it? It's getting frustrating because I'm constantly having to let people know that these are false alarms and not to worry. It's creating a "boy who cried wolf" situation, as people may not trust DFM when they see that there is an alarm and then be slower to act on real problems. Thanks for any help you can provide. These alarms are making me nuts! ... View more