Just to add a bit to Ray's append, here's the general procedure you are looking
for. Leslie Clark posted it awhile ago. Her slogan, if I remember it
correctly, is "Cut from ONE map but delete from ALL submaps". Ray's ovtopofix
-U procdure should put the contents of the topology datbase on the map so you
can do it again.
To thoroughly delete the node for rediscovery:
- ovstop netmon
- delete the node (from all submaps)
- if you have other maps besides the 'default' map, open them and delete it
from those maps as well.
- ovtopofix -a
(if you have more than one map with different contents, use ovtopofix -A)
- ovstart
- after netmon has gotten caught up with its initialization (i.e. it responds
to
a
request for a demandpoll of a node), then ping the node you want to discover
or if it is in the seed file netmon will find it on its own.
James Shanks
Tivoli (NetView for UNIX) L3 Support
Ray Schafer <schafer@TKG.COM> on 01/24/2000 10:45:15 AM
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Subject: Re: Rediscovering a device
Raymond Tuggle wrote:
> Can someone tell me what is the proper procedure for deleting a node so
> it will be re-discovered? I have tried highlighting the node and
> cutting it from all submaps. After doing this I will try to ping the
> device. It never shows up in the maps again. If I enter ovtopodump -l
> nodename then data is displayed for the node. Do I have to remove the
> data from this database? If so how do I do it? I have tried doing
> ovtopofix -u nodename but it says the node can't be found.
>
> Thanks
Well,
You can't add the node until it is deleted from the database. For each
map you have, you have to find the object in the map, select it, then
delete object from all submaps - if you choose cut object from all
submaps, it doesn't delete the object from the database. Once the object
has been deleted from the last map, it should be deleted from the
database. If it isn't - it is likely because an application has created
fields for the object and these fields must be cleared before the object
can be deleted. This is usually done by the application.
To get the object back in the maps so you can delete it, do this:
ovtopofix -U <Selection Name>
The selection name is that which is displayed when you ran ovtopodump -l
nodename.
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