Art -
If all you changed was the hostname, then demand poll should fix that. It
always has for me provided the new name is the one returned by name resolution
so I don't know why it did not work in your case.
But when an objects says "Removed" it means that it was deleted from the GUI but
that it has some non-NetView fields added to it, which have not been removed.
Usually these are added by a third-party app and to remove them you need to
follow that third party's removal procedure first. Does that apply here? You
can also create this situation with nvdbimport. Unfortunately once a "Locate"
capability field is added to an object, there is no simple way to remove it, and
if you want to override the restrictions, then ovtopofix is your only choice.
James Shanks
Tivoli (NetView for UNIX) L3 Support
Art DeBuigny <debuigny@DALLAS.NET> on 02/18/2000 03:21:26 PM
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: REMOVED: entry in object database
Okay Here is the situation
We had to change the hostname of an item in NetView. When we edited the
hostname in the hosts file, we ran a demand poll, which usually updates
the selection name and label. It didn't work. We then deleted the
object from all submaps, and tried to re-add it using loadhosts. Only
problem is, it never deleted it from the object database. Instead, I
fouind an object with REMOVED:10.10.10.10 (not the real IP) in the
database.
We don't want to run ovtopofix, etc., everytime we do stuff like this.
Is there a way to clean these items out of the object database so that
we can readd them.
Also, has anyone had problems getting a demand poll to change the name
when a new hostname has been resolved for a device.
Thanks
Art DeBuigny
debuigny@dallas.net
Bank of America Network Operations
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