Yes, collections should be updated dynaamically on the read-write map. On a
read-only map, you would have to do a refresh to
see additions or deletions.
At your level of code this will be hard to deal with. I don't recognize the
Level 4.1E but I thought we were at 4.1G.
Check with your Digital representative and get the latest fix level. In any
case of course V4 is out of support, so all you
can do is apply maintenance and hope for the best.
Do you have a binary called colmaint or one called nvUtil in /usr/OV/bin? I
doubt it. I think colmaint was not shipped on
Digital and nvUtil was added in V5. The purpose of these utilities here would
be to list the collection at the time you have
a problem and determine which objects are members and which are not. Failing
that you could use the Collection editor (you
should be able to start this with the command collectioned from a command
line as well as from the GUI pull-down menu).
The resolve function should give a current list of members. Is the one you are
missing in there?
If the object in question is not in the "resolve" list then I don't know what
to tell you. If it should be then that is a
problem with nvcold. But map placement is the responsibility of collmap,
which is the application which puts collections on
the map. It is started automatically when you start the GUI, but you might
want to check and see that it is still running
(with ps -ef) when you have a problem. If it is not running then you can
restart it from the Administer menu on the GUI.
If it is still running and your collections aren't correct, then you can back
up to the collection icon and use the edit
function to delete it. You are not deleting the collection just its map
representation, and collmap should put it right back
on the map again. It will be blue until you open it and gradually all the
nodes should be put back. In the past, this
rebuild operation would sometimes restore a collection with not all of its
members shown.
Good luck.
James Shanks
Tivoli (NetView for UNIX) L3 Support
"Rauwers, Laurens" <rauwers@HITT.NL> on 09/14/99 10:54:01 AM
Please respond to Discussion of IBM NetView and POLYCENTER Manager on NetView
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To: NV-L@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU
cc: (bcc: James Shanks/Tivoli Systems)
Subject: NetView Collections (nvcold) problem and questions
Hello,
We have created a number of collections based on an Object field created by
ourselves.
This Object field states the (application) processor type.
Sometimes it happens that a node (processor type) disappears out of the
collection(no node symbol present anymore in the collection submap).
The IP submap for that node is still present.
Inspection of the object database shows that the disappeared node is present
and the Object field for the collection has the correct value.
Restart of nvcold does not bring back to node in the collection.
I have two questions:
1. Is there somebody who has an explanation for disappearence of the node
out of the collection
2. If the value of the Object field changes, will the contents collection
changes as well?
(so are the collections updated dynamically?)
We are running NV 4.1E on Digital Unix(will be upgraded sooner or later).
Laurens Rauwers
HITT Holland Institute of Traffic Technology B.V.
E-mail: rauwers@hitt.nl
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