A clarification: I'm looking for an event source for each area. Even if your area
only has a single connection to other areas, it's useful to have an event source
there. The reason is that change of node reachability is visible only to routers in the
area, and this is one of the events I'm looking for.
paul
On Aug 15, 2020, at 2:42 PM, Paul Koning
<paulkoning at comcast.net> wrote:
Gentlepeople,
I've added a new feature to the HECnet mapper (
http://akdesign.dyndns.org:8080/map/)
to listen for topology change events and do incremental updates of the map as these
happen. You can see this in the current mapper display, which will show "Last
incremental change" in the map title block if there has been any incremental change
since the last full update.
For this to be most effective, the mapper needs to be sent these events from at least one
router in each area. A good choice would be the main backbone area router in each area;
better still all the backbone area routers if there are several.
So if you have one of these and are interested in participating, please do the equivalent
of this NCP command:
NCP>set logging monitor events 4.7-10,14-15,18-19 sink node 28nh
and of course the equivalent permanent command ("define" instead of
"set", and perhaps in a different utility at least for the case of RSX).
If you're running PyDECnet, you need to upgrade to the current version, rev 524.
Then add this line to the config file:
logging monitor --sink-node 28nh --events 4.7-10,14-15,18-19
When you set up a router for this, please drop me an email so I know which nodes are
currently participating.
Thanks much,
paul