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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: Karin Binder <karin.binder@NWA.COM>
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 15:52:59 -0500
Leslie,

Thanks.  mapadmin -f <name> removed them.

Any suggestions to prevent them from being recreated?  I saw your last post
on map permissions that references the srf.  We're not using NetView
Security...

Thanks,
Karin


-----Original Message-----
From: Leslie Clark <lclark@US.IBM.COM>
To: NV-L@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU <NV-L@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU>
Date: Monday, September 13, 1999 11:22 PM
Subject: Re: New map sort of created - cannot delete it.


>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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