[c-nsp] OT: HPOV's Autodiscovery doesn't work through the PIX Firewall

[Bruce Pinsky]

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William Chu wrote:
> Hi:
> 
> My customer has an HP Openview (HPOV) management
> station sitting behind a PIX firewall (on the inside
> interface). He launched the HPOV autodiscovery process
> to discover the network topology and everything worked
> fine except that the discovery died at the PIX.
> Because of that, he couldn't discover the WAN network
> on the outside interface of the PIX. However, if he
> defined the WAN devices manually on the HPOV they
> worked (SNMP-wise). I am not familiar with HPOV's
> autodiscovery process so I wonder if anyone in this
> forum has run into a similar issue before and what was
> the tweaks on the PIX to allow HPOV autodiscovery to
> work through it.
> 


Check out http://ovweb.external.hp.com/ovnsmdps/pdf/t2490-90024.pdf for a
detailed explanation.  Basically SNMP and pings are used.

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