Ooh thats nifty.
I never knew about nvUtil.
BTW if your going over the max number of command line parameters
the easiest way to fix it is to pipe things through xargs.
I'd run it like this
/usr/OV/bin/nvUtil l Collection_name | xargs /usr/OV/bin/nmdemandpoll
John Creasey.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nv-l@tkg.com [mailto:owner-nv-l@tkg.com]On Behalf Of Ray
> Schafer
> Sent: Thursday, 9 March 2000 01:53
> To: IBM NetView Discussion
> Subject: Re: [NV-L] Node Up/Down Traps
>
>
> W.M.de.Bruin@DNB.NL wrote:
>
> > Ray,
> >
> > You said you used a cron-job to do a demand-poll.
> > What command do you use to initiate a demand-poll?
>
> It was a script something like this:
>
> #!/bin/ksh
> /usr/OV/bin/nmdemandpoll $(/usr/OV/bin/nvUtil l
> Collection_Name) >/dev/null
> 2>&1
>
> where Collection_Name is the name of the collection of the nodes whose
> maintenance window just closed.
>
>
> A caveate: If you are trying to do this on a bunch of
> machines, or when
> netmon is busy doing daily checks, it may take a while to
> complete. If the
> output of
>
> /usr/OV/bin/nvUtil l Collection_Name
>
> is greater than 4096 characters, you will have a problem with
> the command.
> You'll have to feed the output into a loop that does one
> demand poll at a
> time. However, if it's just less than a couple dozen nodes,
> it should be
> OK.
>
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