RE: ovspmd not registered

["James Shanks" <SHANKS@us.tivoli.com>]

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Well if you tried "ovstart ovspmd" then you will get the Ovspmd: "Object 
manager ovspmd is not registered"  message, since you cannot
start or stop him by himself.  Just plain ovstart gets him going. But if 
you got that message, then he is going, because he's the one who put out 
that message.  That would indicate to me that someone has messed with the 
Netview box hostname or ip address and that a reset_ci is in order. But I 
would first start with a  "ps -ef | grep /usr/OV" and see what is or is not 
running.   Are there any NetView daemons or not?  
Is there an ovspmd?  If not, then he may have cored.  Then go to /usr/OV/conf 
and make sure you have an ovsuf file.


You should also review what happened at reboot.
cd to /usr/OV/tmp and review the netnmrc.ovstart file, which is where 
startup output, including any errors at boot time, is kept.
The daemons are started by  /etc/init.d/netnmrc which is driven by the 
startup of tcp/ip.  Is that running?.  Can you ping other boxes, telnet, 
that sort of thing?

What to do?  Hard to say without being there, but you might try 
/usr/OV/service/reset_ci  because it sounds to me as though NetView is having a 
hard time with his 
interprocess communication.  Then I'd try taking down all the daemons and 
restarting them, either by issuing  /etc/init.d/netnmrc or sourcing the Tivoli 
environment and doing "ovstarts" one at a time, 
Start with "ovstart nvsecd" then "ovstart pmd" then "ovstart ovwdb" as 
those are the big ones.  You may have trouble bringing the daemons down if 
ovspmd has lost communication with them -- in that case they would have to 
be killed before you could try anything.

Finally, by all means, call Support.  I am not sure how you got into this 
situation, but you may need more personal help getting out.


James Shanks
Level 3 Support 
Tivoli NetView for UNIX and NT
Tivoli Software
IBM Software Group
Please note that my new id is jshanks@us.ibm.com






Dean Sullinger <DSullinger@dot.state.az.us>
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We are running Netview v6.0.1 on Solaris 8 and it has been installed for 2
months and running fine.

Tis morning I came in and Netview was not discovering.  I shut down 
Netview
with ovstop and then rebooted the server.  Once the server came back up, I
tried ovstatus and I received the following message:

Ovspmd is not running

So I tried to use ovstart to start the ovspmd deamon and then I got the
following message:

Ovspmd: Object manager ovspmd is not registered

I then rebooted and tried the same thing but got the same results.

Any ideas before I call IBM?

--
Dean Sullinger
Arizona Department of Transportation
Information Technology Group
Wide Area Network
Email : dean@dot.state.az.us
Internet: http://www.dot.state.az.us
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Well if you tried "ovstart ovspmd" then you will get the Ovspmd: "Object manager ovspmd is not registered"  message, since you cannot
start or stop him by himself.  Just plain ovstart gets him going. But if you got that message, then he is going, because he's the one who put out that message.  That would indicate to me that someone has messed with the Netview box hostname or ip address and that a reset_ci is in order. But I would first start with a  "ps -ef | grep /usr/OV" and see what is or is not running.   Are there any NetView daemons or not?   Is there an ovspmd?  If not, then he may have cored.  Then go to /usr/OV/conf and make sure you have an ovsuf file.


You should also review what happened at reboot.
cd to /usr/OV/tmp and review the netnmrc.ovstart file, which is where startup output, including any errors at boot time, is kept.
The daemons are started by  /etc/init.d/netnmrc which is driven by the startup of tcp/ip.  Is that running?.  Can you ping other boxes, telnet, that sort of thing?

What to do?  Hard to say without being there, but you might try /usr/OV/service/reset_ci  because it sounds to me as though NetView is having a hard time with his interprocess communication.  Then I'd try taking down all the daemons and restarting them, either by issuing  /etc/init.d/netnmrc or sourcing the Tivoli environment and doing "ovstarts" one at a time,  Start with "ovstart nvsecd" then "ovstart pmd" then "ovstart ovwdb" as those are the big ones.  You may have trouble bringing the daemons down if ovspmd has lost communication with them -- in that case they would have to be killed before you could try anything.

Finally, by all means, call Support.  I am not sure how you got into this situation, but you may need more personal help getting out.


James Shanks
Level 3 Support  
Tivoli NetView for UNIX and NT
Tivoli Software
IBM Software Group
Please note that my new id is jshanks@us.ibm.com

Dean Sullinger <DSullinger@dot.state.az.us> Sent by: owner-nv-l@tkg.com 10/09/2001 09:48 AM Please respond to IBM NetView Discussion

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We are running Netview v6.0.1 on Solaris 8 and it has been installed for 2
months and running fine.

Tis morning I came in and Netview was not discovering.  I shut down Netview
with ovstop and then rebooted the server.  Once the server came back up, I
tried ovstatus and I received the following message:

Ovspmd is not running

So I tried to use ovstart to start the ovspmd deamon and then I got the
following message:

Ovspmd: Object manager ovspmd is not registered

I then rebooted and tried the same thing but got the same results.

Any ideas before I call IBM?

--
Dean Sullinger
Arizona Department of Transportation
Information Technology Group
Wide Area Network
Email : dean@dot.state.az.us
Internet: http://www.dot.state.az.us
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