Chris -
I'm curious, and like the cat, that will probably get me killed someday :-)
But I just have to ask about this. I don't work on TIPN nor know very much
about it, but my real ignornace is the internals of Solaris.
On AIX, where TIPN was born, "gethostbyname" is an operating system call,
there is no daemon or service involved, and it never, ever returns a null
pointer so far as I know. So what is this nscd service that you turned
off, and why did you do that? I am curious because it seems to me that the
TIPN guys could just say, "Well, sorry, but we can't run effectively in
that environment, so what you are doing is not supported."
The reason I ask is because NetView proper, especially netmon, and the
event processing daemons, trapd, nvcorrd,nvserverd,actionsvr, do
"gethostbyname" all over the place. If that is failing, I'm surprised that
you aren't having serious NetView problems too. Or have you?
James Shanks
Team Leader, Level 3 Support
Tivoli NetView for UNIX and NT
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Well, we discovered the root cause of the problem, using truss.
We had turned off the nscd service, as part of our hardening procedure.
Starting nscd solved the problem. The key was noticing an open64() call
against /etc/.name_service_door just before a SIGSEGV was thrown.
There is an application code adjustment that should be made to handle a
null pointer return from gethostbyname, under these circumstances, on
Solaris. (There is quite a bit of discussion about this on the Sun
Managers list). It appears that the TIPN application code doesn't
account for this.
We have forwarded this information to Tivoli support.
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From: Cowan, Chris [mailto:Chris.Cowan@2ndwaveinc.com]
Sent: Monday, July 16, 2001 10:13 AM
To: IBM NetView Discussion (E-mail)
Subject: [NV-L] TIPN Inventory - NV Nodes Problem
Since we've had a problem with TIPN Inventory that has been open for 3
months with support, I thought I'd share it with the list, and see if
anyone has run into this. In a nutshell, we noticed of that nv_nodes
table was not being loading. (nv_interfaces, nv_segments, and
nv_networks load just fine). Our platform is Solaris 2.7 with recent
kernel patches, and NV 6.0.1 or 6.0.2.
We had about 6 production setups of NetView of which about 4 were
malfunctioning. The ones that were working were running TMF 3.6.2 with
patches. We believe we have isolated the probem in our testing to the
libtmf.so in TMF 3.6.4 (and also 3.7.x). When we perform this upgrade, we
get an "UNHANDLED EXCEPTION LOOKING UP FIELDS" message and the nv_nodes
table is not loaded. Tracing the RIM does not help, BTW. This exception
is thrown before the upload through the RIM is attempted.
Support claims that they are unable to reproduce this problem, by the
application of the TMF patch. So, most recently we tried several things
including multiple orders of installation for the TMF, Inv, NV, and TIPN
components required. In all cases, we are consistently able to cause the
failure with the TMF 3.6.4 patch.
Has anyone else seen this problem, or does this ring a bell with you in
any way. If so, feel free to contact me.
<<Christopher Cowan (E-mail).vcf>>
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