You have misunderstanding of how all this works.
There is no point to saving old ovevent logs because there is no good way
to view them.
The Events History display requires that the Event Log daemon (ovelmd), the
Event Sieve daemon (ovesmd), and trapd all be active, and that the file of
events to be viewed be called ovevent.log. And as soon as you rename an
old copy to this name, the log daemon will start storing current events
into that log and rolling the old ones off. Events History is not designed
to let you view more than the last 2048 KB worth of events, and like
Current Events this is constantly changing.
Want to save old events? Either save your trapd.logs or get an RDBMS and
get trapdtosql to store them there.
NetView for UNIX does not give you a way to save them in GUI form.
James Shanks
Level 3 Support
Tivoli NetView for UNIX and NT
"kaveh taghi-zadeh" <kaveh_t@hotmail.com>@tkg.com on 08/27/2001 09:48:25 AM
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Subject: [NV-L] Event log
Hi all,
the max size of
/usr/OV/log/ovevent.log is 2048KB.
As far as I've understood this, when the max size
is reached the content of ovevent.log is
written to ovevent.log.bak and ovevent is cleared.
Is there a max size for ovevent.log.bak, too?
What if I want to store events of, say, the past
2 years? Do I have to manually store ovevent.log.bak
away?
Thanks in advance.
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