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Re: New map sort of created - cannot delete it.

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Subject: Re: New map sort of created - cannot delete it.
From: Leslie Clark <lclark@US.IBM.COM>
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 23:22:56 -0400
Sounds like a job for 'mapadmin'. See the man page. I made one like that
today too and will check it out tomorrow.

Cordially,

Leslie A. Clark
IBM Global Services - Systems Mgmt & Networking



I was playing with setting of map permissions trying to restrict non-root
users from creating and deleting maps.  I seem to have created a "map stub
entry" (for lack of a better term) and cannot get rid of it.

I set ovwperms -G -m 644 and then tried to test it.  I started the NetView
Gui (nv6000) as a non-root user, then selected the menu File -  new map and
delete map were not greyed out.  So I selected New Map, gave it a name, and
clicked ok.  I received a popup "Unable to create a new map.  Permission
denied".  So far so good.  But then I selected File-->Open Map and it listed
the default map and the "new" map (that had been "denied").  The new map
shows permissions "unknown" and comments "Non-local map (node name...)"
where node name is our one and only Netview server (no clients).  I selected
the new map, yet the delete option remained greyed out.  Tried the File-->
Delete Map, and same results.  I closed the GUI, logged in as root and
restarted the GUI (nv6000).  Selected File--> Delete Map and same results:
delete button was greyed and non-selectable.  From the CLI, entered ovwls
and the default and new mapname were both listed.  Looked in
/usr/OV/databases/openview/mapdb and it only showed the default map.  Did a
find on all file systems, and cannot find a file with the new mapname. I
can't tell the contents of the new map because I cannot open it.

Where is this new map/mapname buried, how can it be deleted, and how can I
prevent admins from creating more of them?
What is the impact?

This is recreatable (I now have two extra maps...).

Envmt:  AIX 4.3.2, NV 5.1.1

Thanks in advance for any assistance / insights.
Karin Binder


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