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NOVELL TECHNICAL INFORMATION DOCUMENT
TITLE: Frequently Asked Questions about NMS
DOCUMENT ID: TID200015
DOCUMENT REVISION: B
DATE: 30MAR94
ALERT STATUS: Yellow
INFORMATION TYPE: Issue
README FOR: NA
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
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NETWARE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (NMS) 2.0 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
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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.
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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
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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.