Hi Paul,
Sorry for your dis-satisfaction with Optivity NMS 8.1. I'll try to
answer at least two of your questions:
1. "Supported", by the book definition, is "Tested and qualified by Nortel
Networks' System Test Engineering". If it wasn't tested at corporate, it's
not supported (officially) by the Technical Support Center. Doesn't mean
it won't work - it just means that the TSC cannot escalate issues on the
unsupported configuration to engineering and therefore any bugs reported
must be duplicated on a supported configuration.
2. The "Error during reading background file" message has been discussed
many a time on this mail reflector. "Giuliotti, J. P."
<JGiuliotti@MFS.COM> posted this solution:
"Type: ovw -config > /tmp/ovconf.out --(I'm not sure if you have to be in
the bitmap directory or not)"
And Rob Rinear <robr@DIRIGO.COM> posted this solution:
"Basically, there is a corrupt or zero length bitmap file in your bitmaps
directory. If you are particularly interested in Optivity, I've installed
v8.1 twice recently and got this problem...turns out that the file
baynet_baystack-150.38.m file is missing (the corresponding .p file is
there). I simply copied the baynet...250.38.m file to 150.38.m and all
seems well."
I haven't heard of your other problems before, so they may be local to your
environment. The TSC should be able to isolate the problem, although with
that many problems, a re-installation of NMS 8.1 may be in order.
Hope this helps,
-David J. Easter
Sr. Product Manager - Optivity NMS, Network Management Division
Bay Networks/Nortel Networks - How the world shares ideas.
-=-REgarding-=-
At 06:35 PM 12/19/98 -0000, Paul Anderson wrote:
>Could I clarify exactly what is meant by 'supported'. We are on Netview 4.1
>and having recently upgraded to Optivity 8.1 and installed the 8.1.0.2 patch
>I was disappointed to find that
>a) Expanded view no longer works for our 5000 hubs nor our 2814 hubs. It
>only works for our 303 switches!?!
>b) Threshold Manager doesn't actually set thresholds in our 303 switches!?!
>c) Netarchitect just wouldn't start up!?! and
>d) We now get an 'Error during reading background file' message whenever we
>start up Netview!?!. These have all been reported to Bay but I can't say
>I'll be holding my breath.....anyone got any suggestions?
>
>regards Paul
>
>PS the upgrade itself was pretty painful...the notes just aren't
>accurate....why do we put up with this!?!?!
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Art DeBuigny <debuigny@DALLAS.NET>
>To: NV-L@UCSBVM.ucsb.edu <NV-L@UCSBVM.ucsb.edu>
>Date: Tuesday, December 15, 1998 7:02 PM
>Subject: Re: Optivity NMS on NetView v5.1 and AIX v4.3
>
>
>>The only gotcha I have is with the web browser. It seems my Bay routers
>show up
>>blue in the web browser, although they are normal color in the GUI. There
>is an
>>APAR open on this, so Tivoli was able to determine that it was a Netview
>issue.
>>Everything else seems to work fine.
>>
>>Art DeBuigny
>>debuigny@dallas.net
>>
>>Ken Guettler wrote:
>>
>>> I will be installing a new RS/6000 F40 with AIX v4.3 and NetView v5.1 in
>the
>>> next couple of weeks and need to get Optivity NMS loaded as well. I
>>> understand v8.1 is not supported on NetView v5.x or AIX v4.3. I have
>also
>>> been following the forum and believe some of you are using v8.1 in this
>>> environment with some success. Could anyone using this combination
>please
>>> confirm it does work and if there are any special configuration "gotchas"
>I
>>> should look out for.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Ken
>>>
>>> Maryville Data Systems
>>> One Pierce Place Suite 475W
>>> Itasca, IL 60143
>>> (630) 285-9597 ext. 5105
>>
>
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