On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, Bert Ovel wrote:

Hello, Could someone explain to me how NAV interprets SW and GSW categories. It is not making sense to me.

The categories are assigned on a "netbox" level; i.e. the whole chassis the given ip management address covers. If the chassis is used as a pure layer 2 (layer 3 is only used for management purposes) and no routing is done, then this is a SW. If the chassis does routing in aaddition to layer 2 switching, the box is a GSW.

The assignment of categories is quite historic, but they are still needed. gDD of today could with some adjustment auto-decide on the categories.

For example, a Cisco Catalyst 6513 has three cards: 1 for switching and 3 for MSFC routing. So I suppose that the first one should be set to SW and the MSFCs to GW.

You manage the whole chassis as one, preferable using the routed loopback ip address (if you have one, always a good idea). Since this is both layer 2 and 3 => GSW

Then, the Catalyst 4006 switches that we use, NAV did not get data when I entered them as SW. It gets all the data when I change them to GSW. However, these 4006 are only doing switching on layer 2. SImilarly for Catalyst 3500 series switches.

This is not the intention, so if this is the case, I consider it a bug.

I could not find anything in the NAV wiki, any information will be appreciated. Thanks!

Have you seen http://metanav.ntnu.no/moin.cgi/CategoriesAndTypes

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best regards - Vidar

From jsidwell at perisys.net Fri Aug 19 11:55:06 2005

From: jsidwell at perisys.net (Joshua Sidwell) Date: Fri Aug 19 18:55:24 2005 Subject: [Nav-users] Partitioning user logons so they only see their devices? Message-ID: 20050819165523.3E5C7336D4@signal.itea.ntnu.no

Hello again,

I am currently trying to create unique user logons to allow read only access to those devices that individual departments are responsible for monitoring. My problem is that I am not sufficiently clear on how to go about doing this. It seems that you should be able to do this in the "Privileges" section on the group creation page. Is this correct? If not, is there some other way to limit users ability to see all devices?

Thank you in advance for any/all help.

If possible, could somebody please send an example pytho regex for creating a demo group that can only see objects in the "demo" container?