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Re: Clearing Nways databases under AIX 4.3.2

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Subject: Re: Clearing Nways databases under AIX 4.3.2
From: Jim Kellock <jkelloc@IBM.NET>
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 01:18:23 -0500
Reply-to: jkelloc@ibm.net
Sender: Discussion of IBM NetView and POLYCENTER Manager on NetView <NV-L@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU>
The LIBPATH suggestions on www.networking.ibm.com do work, although they
require editing multiple files.  The su to roor probably failed because
the user didn't do "su - root".  This places them in the root
environment.  Just issuing "su" or "su root" does not fully load root's
environment.  One thing that does cause problems is putting the .
/etc/Tivoli/setup_env.sh in /etc/.kshrc.  This Korn shell specific
script runs over and over and it's impossible to avoid running it and
loading up the Tivoli environment.  Put it in $HOME/.profile or
/etc/profile instead.

Jane Curry wrote:
>
> We have Framework 3.6, NetView 5.1, Nways 1.2.2 (all parts) on an
> RS/6000 43P-150 running AIX 4.3.2.  We are trying to clear both the ATM
> and the Hub Manager databases using smit.
>
> The Hub Manager database clear was failing with a number of messages
> relating to LIBPATH - there is an identical problem on the the IBM
> Networking site that was related to running /usr/bin/cml/nwsstatif  -
> the resolution was to unset LIBPATH before running nv6000.  This seems
> unacceptable as other parts of NetView may well need access to the
> LIBPATH that Tivoli sets up.  We tried unsetting LIBPATH and running
> smit again but got the same result (in both cases we were logged in as a
> user and su'ed to root).  We finally managed to clear the Hub database
> by logging on directly as root (which has no LIBPATH setup in it's
> .profile).
>
> Trying to clear the ATM database, the smit panel shows it finally
> manages to stop ahmtopod, and clear a number of databases (upto clearing
> a VLAN database), then it sits - we've given up after 40 minutes.
> /usr/OV/bin/cmld is gobbling all the CPU.  Workaround to get this to
> clear was a complete reboot and logon as root (as above) - the clear
> then ran  to completion in less than a minute.
>
> It looks like there may be a number of things from smit -> Nways that
> are falling foul of the change in libraries resulting from AIX 4.3.x.??
>
> Does anyone have any better workarounds?
> Could anyone from development comment on better solutions to solve
> LIBPATH problems - I don't really want to end up with 27 wrapper script
> that unset LIBPATH.
>
> Many thanks for any input,
> Jane
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