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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