Followup: Just heard back from support on PMR 77379. It's a bug and they
will APAR it.
Karin
-----Original Message-----
From: Karin Binder <karin.binder@nwa.com>
To: Discussion of IBM NetView and POLYCENTER Manager on NetView
<NV-L@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU>
Date: Friday, September 17, 1999 11:44 AM
Subject: Re: Re: New map sort of created - cannot delete it.
>I can personally resist the urge to create more ;-). Yet other users of
the
>GUI will explore the available options. I can provide guidelines such as
>"don't do that", but was hoping for a more technical method of preventing
>it. I will open a call with support.
>
>Thanks,
>Karin
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Leslie Clark <lclark@US.IBM.COM>
>To: NV-L@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU <NV-L@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU>
>Date: Friday, September 17, 1999 1:16 AM
>Subject: Re: New map sort of created - cannot delete it.
>
>
>>I was not using security when I made mine either. It happened when I
>>tested the global map permissions (the -G of ovwperms). I did not expect
>>it to leave that bit of trash around. It looks to me like the way to
>prevent it
>>is to not try it (save map as.. or create.. from a user without r/w
>permissions
>>on the map database). In fact, maybe you would like to be the one to call
>>support and see if they will accept an apar on it. With 5.1.2 shipping,
>maybe
>>they are looking for new bugs to fix? I would wait until hurricane Floyd
>moves
>>out to sea, though. Raleigh was shut down today as a precaution.
>>
>>Cordially,
>>
>>Leslie A. Clark
>>IBM Global Services - Systems Mgmt & Networking
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>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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