I apologize for not including all relevant info. We are running NV v5.1, and
the sourcing of the Tivoli environment did solve the problem. Well, 1/2 of
the problem. After sourcing the environment, we could restart Netview. Now
this is the 2nd time this behavior has happened. The first time I fixed it
(ovstop, ovstop) I must have had my environment set already. Ovtopmd will
probably die again. The reason for the original failure is still unknown.
It does core, and I have already performed a readcore. If it happens again,
we will open up a PMR and send it over.
Thanks for the quick response.
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> From: James_Shanks@TIVOLI.COM[SMTP:James_Shanks@TIVOLI.COM]
> Reply To: Discussion of IBM NetView and POLYCENTER Manager on NetView
> et alia
> Sent: Monday, September 21, 1998 3:31 PM
> To: NV-L@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU
> Subject: Re: ovtopmd not starting
>
> It is not obvious whether you have the same problem or not. That depends
> upon what version of NetView you are running and whether a reboot solves
> the problem or not. And also on the circumstances under which the daemons
> die.
> Did they die? Did they core? You didn't say. How did they get down?
>
> What version of NetView are you running? An exit code of 225 in V5
> indicates that you have not sourced the Tivoli directory as required in
> the
> Release Notes. If you are running V5, then you must issue
> . /etc/Tivoli/setup_env.sh
> before you issue ovstart from the command line. Note that there is a
> space
> between the starting dot (.) and the rest of the command
> (/etc/Tivoli/setup_env.sh)
>
> By the way, ovtopofix requires ovtopmd to be running. That is the source
> of your second error.
>
> If you require immediate personal assistance, then I recommend opening a
> call to Support and making it Sev 1. That is appropriate if you cannot
> get
> the system started or re-started.
>
> James Shanks
> Tivoli (NetView for UNIX) L3 Support
>
>
>
> "Brook, Bryan S" <bryan.s.brook@LMCO.COM> on 09/21/98 02:24:43 PM
>
> Please respond to Discussion of IBM NetView and POLYCENTER Manager on
> NetView et alia <NV-L@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU>
>
> To: NV-L@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU
> cc: (bcc: James Shanks)
> Subject: Re: ovtopmd not starting
>
>
>
>
>
> We are having the same problem right now! Ovtopmd fails (with an exit
> code
> of 255) which prevents netmon from starting which prevents the ovw (GUI)
> from starting. Heres the details:
>
> #ovstop everything shuts down but nvsecd
> #ovstop nvsecd /usr/OV/service/nvstat shows all
> Netview daemons are down
> (Verified /usr/OV/sockets is emptied)
> #ovstart This is where we get the
> exit code of 255 for ovtopmd. No other messages are available. Then some
> other daemons fail to even attempt starting.
>
> If I try an ovtopfix, I get: "ERROR Couldnt open topology database: Cannot
> connect to server: sys2: No such file or directory". I checked the
> diagnosis guide for ovtopmd and nothing helped. We get a fair amount of
> traps (~=4MB/ day) but I dont think that is beyond the realm of
> manageable.
>
> We have cleaned out our topology database and still have the same
> problems.
> Any questions, suggestions, or divine intervention requested!!
>
> Thanks,
> Bryan
>
> RS6000/AIX 4.2.1
>
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