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- NOVELL TECHNICAL INFORMATION DOCUMENT
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- TITLE: Frequently Asked Questions about NMS
- DOCUMENT ID: TID200015
- DOCUMENT REVISION: B
- DATE: 30MAR94
- ALERT STATUS: Yellow
- INFORMATION TYPE: Issue
- README FOR: NA
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- NOVELL PRODUCT and VERSION:
- NetWare Management Systems 2.0
- NetWare Management Agent
- NetWare LANalyzer Agent 1.1
-
- ABSTRACT:
-
- This file contains the most frequently asked questions and answers for the
- NetWare Management System product line. It is broken down into subsection by
- the following product names: NetWare Management System 2.0, NetWare
- Management Agent 1.5, NetWare LANalyzer Agent 1.0, and NetExplorer.
-
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- DISCLAIMER
- THE ORIGIN OF THIS INFORMATION MAY BE INTERNAL OR EXTERNAL TO NOVELL. NOVELL
- MAKES EVERY EFFORT WITHIN ITS MEANS TO VERIFY THIS INFORMATION. HOWEVER, THE
- INFORMATION PROVIDED IN THIS DOCUMENT IS FOR YOUR INFORMATION ONLY. NOVELL
- MAKES NO EXPLICIT OR IMPLIED CLAIMS TO THE VALIDITY OF THIS INFORMATION.
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-
- ISSUE
-
- ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- NETWARE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (NMS) 2.0 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
- ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
-
- Q: What causes the error message "unable to copy or decompress
- AUTOEXEC.BAT" when installing NetExplorer?
-
- A: Make sure SHARE is loaded and that 580 KB of base memory is free for
- the install. However, the most common reason is that you are logged
- in to a server. To perform the install, just attach to a server by
- running the NetWare Client drivers (LSL, MLID driver, IPXODI, VLM).
-
- Q: What causes the error message "NETWARE.DLL file not found" when you
- start up NMS?
-
- A: The most common reason for the error is that the user does not have
- the NetWare Client drivers loaded before doing the install. Also,
- the user should ensure that MS Windows is set up for networking
- (Novell NetWare 4.0).
-
- Q: What is the problem when you have been running NetExplorer Manager
- (the minimized magnifying glass) for several hours and your Internet
- map only contains the "Discovery In Progress" segment?
-
- A: Most likely your NMS console is not "pointing" to the correct
- NetExplorer server. To verify that the correct NetExplorer server
- is selected, do the following the steps:
-
- 1. Select Configure.
-
- 2. Select Global Preferences.
-
- 3. Scroll down to the NetExplorer Options icon and select it.
-
- 4. Verify the NetExplorer server name is the correct server.
-
- Q: What is the problem when after installing the NetWare Management
- Agent 1.5, the message "\NMS\BIN\N-SNOOPER...122 db version
- mismatch" is reported when you start the NMS Console?
-
- A: Check whether you did the NMM 1.15B and NSM 1.5 update documented
- that is on pages 9 and 10 of the NetWare Management Agent 1.5
- Release Note. This portion of the Installation should only be
- performed if you have the NetWare Management System 1.1. To correct
- this error, you need to reinstall the NMS 2.0 Console software.
-
- Q: Is a third-party resource guide for NMS available?
-
- A: A third-party resource guide for NMS is available on NetWire in the
- file RESRCE.EXE file in NOVLIB Lib 8. The guide provides a list of
- third-party products designed to work with NMS or Novell's
- MultiProtocol Router. The guide also includes a brief definition of
- commonly used terms.
-
- Q: How do you issue the SET command within the MIB Browser?
-
- A: To issue the SET command within the MIB Browser, do the following
- steps:
-
- 1. Highlight the Attribute value for the variable you want to
- change. A blinking box will appear.
-
- 2. Press the <Enter> key.
-
- 3. Change the value in the pop up box and select OK.
-
- 4. Then issue the SET request to update the SNMP agent by clicking
- on the finger icon.
-
- ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- NETWARE MANAGEMENT AGENT 1.5 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
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-
- Q: On a server running the NetWare Management Agent, what does the
- message "Instrumented OS Emulator unable to Register Object class:
- 100.3.1" mean?
-
- A: Usually this means you have a corrupt queue (such as a print or FAX
- queue). Initially, you can try to delete the jobs in the queue. If
- the error doesn't go away, do the following steps:
-
- 1. Delete the queue from the SYS:SYSTEM directory.
-
- 2. Run BINDFIX.
-
- 3. Recreate the queue.
-
- Q: What causes the error message "Communication with server failed
- (Error 251)" to be returned when you double-click on a "manageable"
- server?
-
- A: Usually this means the NETMAN user account on the server running the
- NetWare Management Agent is corrupt.
-
- Use SYSCON or NWADMIN utility to delete the account, recreate
- another user with the name NETMAN, and assign that user a password.
- (When using the NWADMIN utility, make sure the context in which you
- create the NETMAN user is the same context as the "manageable"
- server.)
-
- Also, if you give the user a different password, remember to
- register that new password on the NMS console.
-
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- NETWARE LANALYZER AGENT 1.0 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
- ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
-
- Q: What should I do when while installing NetWare LANalyzer Agent, the
- following message is reported?
-
- MESSAGE
-
- Current XXXXX.LAN driver is promiscuous capable but its updated
- driver was not found
-
- A: This is a bug in the install. Copy the driver to the DRIVERS
- directory on Disk 1. Then restart the installation.
-
- Q: What can you do when executing the command View, All, Network
- Segments, the following message is reported in the last column of
- the segment you want to monitor?
-
- MESSAGE
-
- Agent Not Monitoring
-
- A: When this message is reported do the following procedure:
-
- 1. Make sure the NetWare LANalyzer Agent NLM files (in LANZ.NCF)
- are running.
-
- 2. Check to see that the interface (network board) is being
- monitored from the server. To do this, perform the following
- steps on the NetWare LANalyzer Agent server:
-
- a. LOAD NWSNUT.
-
- b. LOAD LANZCONF (located on disk 3).
-
- c. Highlight the network interface card driver that
- supposedly is not being monitored. Then press <Enter>.
-
- d. Select "Network Interface Items" from the menu.
-
- e. Verify the following information:
-
- ■ The "Item" column contains an entry labeled
- "Statistics" and that the corresponding "Status"
- column says "valid"
-
- ■ The "Owner" column says "monitor"
-
- ■ The "Network" column indicates the name of the
- adapter
-
- f. If all the information is correct, then that interface
- should be monitored by the NetWare LANalyzer Agent; skip
- to step 3.
-
- g. If all the information is not correct, the single-segment
- version of the NetWare LANalyzer Agent might be installed,
- and it might not be enabled for this interface. You can
- enable the NetWare LANalyzer Agent for that interface by
- performing the steps on page 3-5 of the NetWare LANalyzer
- Agent Installation Guide.
-
- 3. Reinstall the LANalyzer Agent.
-
- Q: What do I need to do if when I execute the command View, All,
- Network Segments and I click the Dashboard icon on the desired
- segment that I want to monitor, "only" the Dashboard is displayed
- and the bar chart of the top stations is missing below the
- dashboard?
-
- A: Ensure that the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is
- explicitly loaded with the following parameters:
-
- LOAD SNMP VERBOSE CONTROL= TRAP=
-
- If you have this statement in AUTOEXEC.NCF file, make sure that
- another NLM isn't automatically loading SNMP (without the
- parameters). To make sure that these parameters are being used,
- load the CONLOG NLM (in NOVLIB, Lib 9, CONLOG.EXE) to review the
- loading of the NLMs. When SNMP loads, it should return the
- following message:
-
- MESSAGE
-
- SNMP: ControlCommunity now accepts any community name
-
- Q: What can I do if when I try to bring up the Dashboard or the Station
- Monitor table or I try to capture packets, the following message is
- reported?
-
- MESSAGE
-
- No Resource on Probe
-
- A: Make sure the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is
- explicitly loaded with the following parameters:
-
- LOAD SNMP VERBOSE CONTROL= TRAP=
-
- If you have this statement in AUTOEXEC.NCF file, make sure that
- another NLM isn't automatically loading SNMP (without the
- parameters). To make sure that these parameters are being used,
- load the CONLOG NLM (in NOVLIB, Lib 9, CONLOG.EXE) to review the
- loading of the NLMs. When SNMP loads, it should return the
- following message:
-
- MESSAGE
-
- SNMP: ControlCommunity now accepts any community name
-
- The "No Resource on Probe" error could also mean that you have
- exceeded the upper limit on memory that can be allocated dynamically
- by the NetWare LANalyzer Agent. For an explanation on increasing or
- decreasing the memory used by the NetWare LANalzyer Agent, refer to
- the "bound=" parameter in the SYS:SYSTEM\LANZ.NCF file.
-
- Q: What can I do if when I execute the command View, All, Network
- Segments, the following message is reported in the last column of
- the segment that I want to monitor?
-
- MESSAGE
-
- No Response
-
- A: If this message is received, do the following procedure:
-
- 1. Make sure the network segment is "pointing" to an "active"
- Remote Monitor by doing the following:
-
- a. Highlight the segment reporting "No Response".
-
- b. Select "Configure" then "Selected Object".
-
- c. Scroll down to the Remote Monitor icon and select it.
-
- d. Select an active Remote Monitor and click Save.
-
- 2. Use the Fault, Test Connectivity feature to verify that the NMS
- console can communicate with the server running the NetWare
- LANalyzer Agent. Perhaps an intermediate device is down.
-
- Q: What can I do when the Dashboard or Top 20 Stations Table is
- displayed and the NMS console reports the following message:
-
- MESSAGE
-
- out of Top N resources
-
- A: To resolve this problem, use the following steps:
-
- 1. Make sure the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is
- explicitly loaded with the following parameters:
-
- LOAD SNMP VERBOSE CONTROL= TRAP=
-
- If you have this statement in AUTOEXEC.NCF file, make sure that
- another NLM isn't automatically loading SNMP (without the
- parameters). To make sure that these parameters are being
- used, load the CONLOG NLM (in NOVLIB, Lib 9, CONLOG.EXE) to
- review the loading of the NLMs. When SNMP loads, it should
- return the following message:
-
- MESSAGE
-
- SNMP: ControlCommunity now accepts any community name
-
- 2. The Dashboard and the Top 20 Station Table use "Top N tables"
- to display the "top talkers" on that segment. The default
- number of Top N tables is 4.
-
- To get rid of the "out of Top N resources" error message, you
- do one of the following three actions:
-
- a. Close any Dashboard or Top 20 Station Table windows that
- you are not using.
-
- b. Increase the Top N resources value in the
- SYS:SYSTEM\LANZ.NCF file. This file contains a detailed
- description of the "Top N resources" variable.
-
- c. You can also use the LANZCONF utility to see how many top
- N tables have been opened by doing the following steps:
-
- 1) Load NWSNUT.
-
- 2) Load LANZCONF (located on Disk 3).
-
- 3) Highlight the network interface card driver that is
- being monitored.
-
- 4) Select "Network Interface Items" from the menu.
-
- 5) Count how many "Host Top N" entries are in use.
-
- Each entry will show which console and service (Dashboard
- or Station table) owns it.
-
- Q: Must IPX be bound to each network board for the NetWare LANalyzer
- Agent to monitor each segment?
-
- A: The NetWare LANalyzer Agent requires at least "one" network board to
- be bound to IPX for the NMS console to communicate with it. It does
- not require every network adapter to be bound to IPX or to another
- network protocol.
-
- Note: A potential side effect with not binding IPX to each network
- board is that your Internet map may have disjoint or "island"
- segment icons (for those segments which NetExplorer was unable to
- determine where they should be connected).
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- NETEXPLORER QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
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-
- Q: What can I do if I encounter any of the following problems running
- the NetExplorer software on a NetWare 4.01 server?
-
- ■ You cannot communicate from the NMS console to NetExplorer
- using the IPX(tm) protocol.
-
- ■ The NetExplorer discovery process stops unexpectedly (and there
- are no error messages indicating that this occurred).
-
- ■ An error message is displayed with a negative value error code.
-
- A: If you are running NetExplorer on any NetWare 4.01 server, the
- following NLMs must be updated with at least the following dates:
-
- IPXS.NLM 8-23-93
- SPXS.NLM 9-14-93
- TLI.NLM 9-14-93
- STREAMS.NLM 9-14-93
-
- These NLMs are not updated automatically by the NMS 2.0 installation
- process. To update the NLMs, refer to procedure specified in the
- README.TXT file provided on the NetWare Management System 2.0
- NetWare 4.01 Server Update Disk. If the server already has a later
- version of these NLMs, then disregard this.
-
- Note: Problems with NetExplorer may occur if these NLMs are not
- updated.
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