Hi,
I am running Netview 6.02 on AIX 4.3.3
I also have about 120 entries with strange "FIELD VALUE": "Selection Name"
or "Selection Name+Number" or just a Number.
I also have lots of entries in the same field with "REMOVED:Name" or with
the name of a machine that has been removed from the network for years. Is
this normal ?
I migrated this database from Netview 5.1 to Netview 6 and I know it was
migrated from Netview 4 before and probably even from an earlier version.
I don't know if it's growing : this is the first time I see these entries.
When I did the migration from Netview 5.1, I asked support if it was normal
to have such a big database for the size of our network. I was told that it
was not a problem.
We have about 300 routers, 500 servers and less than 20 000 computers on
the network.
ovobjprint gives me 132816 objects in database and this number is growing.
should I be concerned about the size of my database ?
I know it would be good for cleaning to rediscover the network, but it's
such a work to put every node back in it's place that I am little bit
afraid to start such a process. It is possible to restart a discovery in a
new map while operator are doing production work on the original map on the
same server ?
Thanks,
Francois Le Hir
Network Projects & Consulting Services
IBM Global Services
Phone: (514) 205 6695
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Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 16:11:16 -0400
From: "Leslie Clark" <lclark@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: ovwdb: strange objects
Helmut, I have not seen that happen in years. I keep an eye out for them
because long ago there were some code problems that could cause them.
But I don't see it any more. Have you been migrating the same database
since V4? If I saw that, even if they were not growing, I would schedule
time
for a rediscovery just to get it clean. If it is growing, call Support. If
not,
weigh the pain and either ignore it or clean it up. Or call Support.
And I will say it again, you should always be prepared to rediscover or
restore your database. Stuff happens. I would take a backup of this, and
restore from an old backup and check to see if they were always there. If
they were, you can just restore your most current one ( if you have the fix
for pax installed).
Cordially,
Leslie A. Clark
IBM Global Services - Systems Mgmt & Networking
Detroit
helmut.schroeder.hs@bayer-ag.de@tkg.com on 04/17/2001 11:47:18 AM
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Subject: [NV-L] ovwdb: strange objects
Hi,
This is NV 6.01 in AIX 4.3.3:
Checking our object DB, I found about 9.000 objects with no
fields but Selection Name as follows:
OBJECT: 134765
FIELD ID FIELD NAME FIELD VALUE
10 Selection Name "Selection
Name134765"
OBJECT: 134766
FIELD ID FIELD NAME FIELD VALUE
10 Selection Name "Selection
Name134766"
....
I have no idea where they came from - ovtopofix changes nothing.
... I don't really want to restore from backup because they
seem to be there for quite a while.
Any ideas ? Thanks in advance ....
Helmut Schroeder
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