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RE: Restarting snmpCollect

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Subject: RE: Restarting snmpCollect
From: "John Creasey" <creasey@ozemail.com.au>
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 05:35:53 +1100
Just a thought..

Have you tried doing a plain ovstart without doing the ovstop first?
It should start anything that it sees isnt running but should be
and this will tell you what the missing process is.

BTW what does MibExpr.conf do?

--
John Creasey.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nv-l@tkg.com [mailto:owner-nv-l@tkg.com]On Behalf Of Steve
> Stamper
> Sent: Thursday, 9 March 2000 00:28
> To: IBM NetView Discussion
> Subject: Re: [NV-L] Restarting snmpCollect
> 
> 
> There are a few "deferrings" (like below) but they are 
> expected as they are
> coming from systems that we're in the process of changing 
> community strings:
> 
>    Wed Mar 08 08:10:48 2000 : XXX.XXX.com not up
>        Deferring SNMP of all collections on XXX.XXX.com
>        15 minutes (0.25 hours).  Send event (via
>        snmpCollect -C <node>) to retry sooner.
> 
> 
> I am also getting a few errors (expected) from the expression 
> I am working
> on:
> 
>    Wed Mar 08 07:53:18 2000 : SNMP to XXX.XXX.com for MIB variable
> 
> .iso.org.dod.internet.private.enterprises.compaq.cpqHostOs.cpq
> HoComponent.cp
> 
> qHoFileSys.cpqHoFileSysTable.cpqHoFileSysEntry.cpqHoFileSysPer
> centSpaceUsed.
> 0
>        (error-index #2) returned: The variable does not exist 
> or is read
> only.
>        Deferring SNMP of diskCused.0 on
>        XXX.XXX.com 15 minutes (0.25 hours).  Consecutive deferral #83.
>        send event (via snmpCollect -C <NODE>) to retry sooner.
> 
> 
> What's got me bugged is that collections work fine with I ovstop/start
> NetView, but ovstop/start snmpCollect never gets collections 
> going again.
> Is there something else that needs to be started and stopped when
> snmpCollect gets bounced?  Not a major show-stopper - just annoying.
> 
> Thanks
> Steve Stamper
> Grand Rapids, MI
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <lclark@us.ibm.com>
> To: <NV-L@tkg.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2000 9:49 PM
> Subject: Re: [NV-L] Restarting snmpCollect
> 
> 
> >
> >
> > That does not sound normal. If you have created a problem 
> in mibExpr.conf,
> > there
> > will be an immediate error message in snmpcollect and it 
> will go down
> right
> > away.
> >
> > So what DOES it say in /usr/OV/log/snmpCol.trace? Stuff 
> about deferring
> > nodes
> > for an hour because it cannot reach them, maybe? Stuff 
> about renaming
> > things?
> >
> > Cordially,
> >
> > Leslie A. Clark
> > IBM Global Services - Systems Mgmt & Networking
> > Detroit
> > =================================================
> >
> > Having a problem with collections not restarting.  When I edit my
> > /usr/OV/conf/mibExpr.conf file, I ovstop snmpCollect then ovstart
> > snmpCollect.  It restarts as expected and keeps running but 
> HOURS later is
> > still has not started collecting.  When I have to do a full 
> ovstop/ovstart
> > of the whole NetView system, within about 10 minutes 
> collection starts.
> >
> > Not a problem to work around, but a bit annoying.  Any ideas?
> >
> > Steve Stamper
> > Grand Rapids, MI
> >
> >
> >
> > 
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