James,
The problem was not actually with xnmtrap or nvevents, there was a problem
with the DNS lookup for my network equipment which seemed to be causing
snmpcollect to reach its maximum number of outstanding events, this was also
the case for ovtopmd and netmon. All these daemons also disconnected from
trapd, which resulted in the lack of events. I think the situation described
below was purely coincidental. Thanks for the thoughts anyway.
Peter
-----Original Message-----
From: James Shanks [mailto:SHANKS@us.tivoli.com]
Sent: 26 June 2001 17:40
To: IBM NetView Discussion
Subject: Re: [NV-L] xnmtrap application
There is no inherent connection between xnmtrap and your event windows. If
traps are coming into trapd.log then they should be flowing to your event
windows.
That would be the first thing to check. If they don't flow, then
something is amiss. Next you might do a netstat -a and see if there are
sockets filling up, but you wouldn't be able to do much about it if there
were, except to take down your events windows and see if re-starting them
helps or whether you have to restart trapd because he is stuck somewhere.
xnmtrap itself sends a log-only trap to trapd saying that the format has
changed when you exit by clicking the "OK" button, and this causes trapd to
go re-load the file when he reads it, but that usually only takes a second
or so. That would be the only time when your windows would not update.
Things should get back to normal very quickly. I don't know what to tell
you to do if they don't, because I haven't seen anything like this before.
You'd probably have to call Support to get some more precise help. But as
you are so far behind on maintenance, they would probably require you to
obtain that first.
We shipped 6.0.1 maintenance last July and 6.0.2 maintenance in April of
this year.
Hope this helps
James Shanks
Team Leader, Level 3 Support
Tivoli NetView for UNIX and NT
Ingleson Peter <peter.ingleson@ncmgroup.com>@tkg.com on 06/26/2001 11:32:34
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Subject: [NV-L] xnmtrap application
I've been building some meaning into traps sent to Netview by network
devices and have come across what appears to be a problem.
I'm running Netview 6.0 on AIX 4.3.2.
When I modify a trap (Event_Configuration-Modify) then select OK I've
noticed that my event display windows no longer updates, they seem to
freeze
around the time when I opened Event_configuration. I have had a look at the
daemons that are running through serversetup and everything appears to be
running correctly.
Do I need to restart something after modifying the trap to event
customisation?
Many Thanks
Peter Ingleson
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