James
Thanks for the info. I forgot to delete them from ALL maps.
Matt
-----Original Message-----
From: James Shanks <James_Shanks@tivoli.com>
To: NV-L@ucsbvm.ucsb.edu <NV-L@ucsbvm.ucsb.edu>
Date: Tuesday, May 11, 1999 3:00 PM
Subject: Re: discovering a change in ip address??
>Now I am really confused.
>
>I thought you said (1) that you had a lot of changes in which ip addresses
>were re-assigned from one object to another and that (2) you had tried to
>delete those objects from the map using the GUI and this had not worked.
>So people suggested you delete the entire topology and start over because
>that is an easy way out.
>
>You can delete a single object from the map and the database using the GUI.
>You open the map, find the object, select it, pull down the Edit menu and
>select Cut ... From all submaps. If you have more than 1 map you will
>have to open each of them in turn and do the same thing. This should
>delete the object from the map and from the database. You can verify this
>with ovobjprint -s <hostname>. We do this all the time. In the Admin
>Guide it is covered in the section called "Deleting Objects and Symbols".
>
>Unfortunately in the opinion of many, this is a GUI operation. Since
>NetView has three interconnected databases (object, topology, and map) you
>have to clean them all up simultaneously, and if you have interfaces
>associated, these must be removed, as well as any networks which depend on
>them. Thus ipmap does the job. ovw tells him what you have selected on
>the map and he reads the various databases and removes what is required.
>There is no one single command to manipulate all three databases and delete
>an object.
>
>James Shanks
>Tivoli (NetView for UNIX) L3 Support
>
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