Hi Ian,
currently I've got exactly 65 of these zombies (bluesies).
Until now I've found absolutely NO WAY to get rid of them.
And, believe me, I really tried everything documented.
And, btw, ovtopofix -r (undocumented) did not help either.
Running NetView 5.1.1 / Framework 3.6 / AIX 4.2.1.0.
Any (new) hints welcome.
Thanks in advance.
Cordially, Ralph.
iT-AUSTRIA / OE2100 / TK
Tel (mobil) 0664 1908469
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> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Genge, Ian (GECITS at ALCOA) [SMTP:Ian.Genge@ALCOA.COM.AU]
> Gesendet am: Donnerstag, 12. August 1999 05:25
> An: NV-L@UCSBVM.ucsb.edu
> Betreff: Removing Objects from NetView Database
>
> I have been away from this mailing list for a while so please bear with
> me.
> I searched the archives and found a discussion thread that was similar to
> the problem we are experiencing, but was unable to find a resolution to
> the
> problem.
>
> At the risk of a lot of people experiencing deja-vu here goes:
>
> We are running NetView 5.1 on AIX 4.3.2.
>
> We have a large number of unwanted devices (around 200, mostly PC's) that
> are in our database because they are using addresses reserved for network
> devices. We have modifed the seedfile to exclude them and I have been
> going
> through the maps doing a visual check and deleting them (Edit -> Delete
> Object -> From All Submaps).
>
> I have also deleted all maps except for the one we are using.
>
> I ran ovmapcount -a and then ran ovtopofix -a, as per instructions. When
> I
> started the user interface again it synchronised for quite some time and
> at
> the end, all of the previously deleted objects re-appeared.
>
> Checking the output of ovtopofix showed that for each of the objects that
> re-appeared we got the message 'not in any maps, updating times'. There
> are
> a couple of objects that were successfully deleted and for them we got the
> message 'removed and not in any maps, deleting'.
>
> Can someone please advise how we can get these nodes into 'removed' status
> so we can clear them out of the database? We don't want them re-appearing
> every time we run ovtopofix.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Ian Genge
> Network Specialist
> GE Capital IT Solutions (Alcoa)
>
>
> Alcoa of Australia Ltd ACN 004 879 298
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