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Re: actionsvr not starting

To: nv-l@lists.tivoli.com
Subject: Re: actionsvr not starting
From: James_Shanks@TIVOLI.COM
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 08:29:09 -0400
Reply-to: Discussion of IBM NetView and POLYCENTER Manager on NetView et alia <NV-L@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU>
Sender: Discussion of IBM NetView and POLYCENTER Manager on NetView et alia <NV-L@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU>
Do a ps -ef | grep actionsvr  .  Do you see one running?  If so, kill it.
This situation is usually caused by actionsvr dying or being killed while
one of his children is still up.  The child then owns the port that the
next actionsvr is trying to get at startup.

That won't tell you why this happened.  If you want to pursue that, I'd
start with /usr/OV/log/nvaction.alog and .blog.
And look for cores in the / directory.

Finally, you do not have to start the GUI with the nv6000 command if you
are having problems with just one "non-essential" daemon.  Issue  ovw
rather than nv6000 and the GUI will start.   Then you can work on the
daemon problem at your leisure.  If ovwdb is down then the GUI will not
start this way either.  If ovtopmd is down, then the statuses will be
wrong.  But actionsvr just executes actions out of rulesets, so he is not
really a show-stopper.


James Shanks
Tivoli (NetView for UNIX) L3 Support



Greg Redder <redder@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> on 08/19/98 05:00:15 PM

Please respond to "REDDER Gregory J." <redder@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>

To:   NV-L@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU
cc:    (bcc: James Shanks)
Subject:  actionsvr not starting





Dear all,

I'm not able to search the nv-l archives - no answer after 4 hours.
Also, the knowledge base at Tivoli is temporarily out of service.
So, here I am ;-)

I'm running NetView V5.0 on AIX4.2.1.

When I try to start nv6000, I get the following error:

ERROR: The following REQUIRED daemons are not running:
  actionsvr
As root user, start all the daemons by using one of the following methods:
         a) use the smit (TME 10 desktop) utility
         b) issue the command:  /usr/OV/bin/ovstart
         c) rerun this command

So, as root, I run:

/usr/OV/bin/ovstart

and get:

 behavior:            OVs_WELL_BEHAVED
 state:               NOT_RUNNING
 PID:                 33364
 last message:
 exit status:         exit(1)

I look in: /usr/OV/log/nvaction.alog and see:

98/08/19 14:58:29 :     local host is delta
98/08/19 14:58:29     nl_Actionsvr.C[264] :     Unable To Open action
Channel Trying Port 1670
98/08/19 14:58:29     nl_Actionsvr.C[267] :     Unable to open port
1670... exiting


Any ideas, please?

Thank you --Greg Redder

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