Same thing with older (4.2 and 4.3) versions, autodiscovery is turned on by default and in some cases it can hang systems with non fully compliant SNMP agents (As we discovered when it hung some Wireless Acess Points in our network), as well as the system (The autodiscovery feature is a real resource hog) specially if you also run MRTG on the same machine. Older versions doesn't ask for a seed router but start by taking the default route and querying the known networks (default and internal) and then running an incremental scans of all IP blocks including the Private Class A,B and C blocks. The product is nice and offers a lot of functionality but the autodiscovery process is deffinitely a minus (OpenView behaves better). Marc Cozzi wrote: > Funny, I reported this to Castlerock several months ago. At that time they > showed > little intrrest in the problem. Indeed this does asks for a seed router to > start autodiscovery. > If you are new to the program, and who's not with a new version, it's > difficult to find > the configuration to turn the thing off! The multiple polls also seem to > crash some > Windows based FTP daemons.
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