Thus spake Steve Creel

When I pull SNMP info off of the NMC, the response is relatively quick, and definately livable. However, when I try to pull stuff from the hiperarc or netserver cards, it takes -forever-.

*boggle* How are you getting this to happen? The SNMP agent on the Arc is *definitely* faster than that on (at least the 486 based) NMC cards. Moving to the HiPer NMC (pentium based) helps tremendously from what everyone has told me, but I still can't imagine it being faster than the Arc. The NETServer has little enough information in it that its of little consequence how fast it is. :)

Is there anything I can do to speed up the arc/ns responses? Is there a misconfiguration that could be causing the lagged response?

The only way I can think that you would get worse response to the Arc than to the NMC would be if you were using the relay functionality of the NMC to get to the Arc...then the request would be going through both the NMC and the Arc with the resultant slowdown. If this is the situation, then that makes sense, and the solution is to send the SNMP request to the Arc directly (use the Arc's IP address, not the NMC's in your SNMP util)... Only other possibility I can think of is that you have a very heavily loaded Arc...the fullest Arc I have is one with 5 DSP's on it (115 ports? did I calculate that right?), so if you have 14 DSP's running against one Arc...perhaps the Arc (correctly) prioritizes handling user connections higher than SNMP requests, with the result of the SNMP having poor performance on such a heavily loaded Arc...I've not seen any evidence of any slowdown on my most heavily loaded Arc, but I suppose its possible. -- Jeff McAdams Email: jeffm@iglou.com Head Network Administrator Voice: (502) 966-3848 IgLou Internet Services (800) 436-4456 - To unsubscribe to usr-tc, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe usr-tc" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message.