Upgrading from Netview 5.x to 6.0 - trap descriptions too long

["Capers, Janelle (US - Hermitage)" <jcapers@dttus.com>]

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Has anyone run into the issue of Trap descriptions being too long when
trying to upgrade to 6.0?  The pre-installation checklist has you run
chktrapd from /cdrom/TOOLS and it looks for traps that are longer than 99
words in definition and flags them as errors that must be corrected.
Spanning tree was the first one to get flagged in my case.  I have 22 traps
that got flagged.  Tech. support recommends cutting and pasting the
descriptions to a file and the pasting them back once the upgrade is
complete.  They tell me the upgrade will not proceed until this is done.

This seems very odd and "hoaky".  Has anyone come up with a better way or
found this to not be a requirement?

Thanks,
Janelle

Janelle Capers
Enterprise Systems Management 
Deloitte & Touche PSC
Hermitage, TN

Has anyone run into the issue of Trap descriptions being too long when trying to upgrade to 6.0?  The pre-installation checklist has you run chktrapd from /cdrom/TOOLS and it looks for traps that are longer than 99 words in definition and flags them as errors that must be corrected.  Spanning tree was the first one to get flagged in my case.  I have 22 traps that got flagged.  Tech. support recommends cutting and pasting the descriptions to a file and the pasting them back once the upgrade is complete.  They tell me the upgrade will not proceed until this is done.

This seems very odd and "hoaky".  Has anyone come up with a better way or found this to not be a requirement?

Thanks,
Janelle

Janelle Capers
Enterprise Systems Management
Deloitte & Touche PSC
Hermitage, TN