Re: Mail Problems

[Mike Walsh <mike.walsh@reliastar.com>]

James,

I do not understand it myself.  We have an identical box on our network
in another location that is not generateing these traps.  Both boxes are
running Netview 6.0 on solarus 2.7 OS.  The TRAPD.CONF file was
customised by a person at another company we merged with so I am unsure
of all of it's details.  I did search it for anything I could recognise
that would cause this.  I am fairly new to netview so am probably
overlooking the obvious.

How would I go about adding this trap to prevent further problems?

Mike

James Shanks wrote:

>
> I recognize the message but you'll have to tell us what it is doing in
> /var/mail/netview.
>
> The trap is the new global Acknowldeged  trap, though I am mystified
> as to why you get the Unformatted trap part, because by default
> NetView will format all his own traps whether there is an entry in
> trapd.conf or not.   You could always add one if you wanted to format
> the trap yourself.
> But  what have you got set up that is sending this as a mail message?
> You'd have to have some customization in place to do that.
>
> What level of code and what OS are you using?  Has someone customized
> traps in trapd to send mail?
>
> James Shanks
> Level 3 Support  for Tivoli NetView for UNIX and NT
> Tivoli Software / IBM Software Group
>
>
>
>
>  Mike Walsh <Mike.Walsh@reliastar.com>
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>
> Hi,
>
> My Netview server is being flooded by the following messages in the
> /var/mail/netview file.  I cannot identify where they are comeing
> from.
> Does anyone out there recognise these messages and could you provide
> some guidence in controlling this.  It is bringing my box to it's
> knees.
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
>
>
>
> From: Super-User <root>
> Message-Id:
> <200111081908.fA8J7oo06749@dsm21001.nws.us.americas.intranet>
> To: netview
> Subject: Unformatted Trap: E: NetView, e: 1.3.6.1.4.1.2.6.3.1, S:
> 50790450
> Content-Length: 555
>
> Trap found with no known format in trapd.conf(4)
> Enterprise NetView (1.3.6.1.4.1.2.6.3.1) community public
> generic trap:6 specific trap:50790450
> Timestamp:31938 Agentaddr:dsm21001 args(5):
> [1] private.enterprises.ibm.ibmProd.3.1.1.2.0 (Integer): 4
> [2] private.enterprises.ibm.ibmProd.3.1.1.3.0 (OctetString): dsm21001
> [3] private.enterprises.ibm.ibmProd.3.1.1.4.0 (OctetString): default:
> Acknowled
> ged 211382
> [4] private.enterprises.ibm.ibmProd.3.1.1.5.0 (OctetString): 211382
> [5] private.enterprises.ibm.ibmProd.3.1.1.6.0 (OctetString): openview
>
>
>
> From root Thu Nov  8 13:03:45 2001
> Return-Path: <root>
> Received: (from root@localhost)
>        by dsm21001.nws.us.americas.intranet (8.10.2+Sun/8.10.2) id
> fA8J2aj04228
>        for netview; Thu, 8 Nov 2001 13:02:36 -0600 (CST)
> Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 13:02:36 -0600 (CST)
> From: Super-User <root>
> Message-Id:
> <200111081902.fA8J2aj04228@dsm21001.nws.us.americas.intranet>
> To: netview
> Subject: Unformatted Trap: E: NetView, e: 1.3.6.1.4.1.2.6.3.1, S:
> 50790450
> Content-Length: 554
>
> Trap found with no known format in trapd.conf(4)
> Enterprise NetView (1.3.6.1.4.1.2.6.3.1) community public
> generic trap:6 specific trap:50790450
> Timestamp:4263 Agentaddr:dsm21001 args(5):
> [1] private.enterprises.ibm.ibmProd.3.1.1.2.0 (Integer): 4
> [2] private.enterprises.ibm.ibmProd.3.1.1.3.0 (OctetString): dsm21001
> [3] private.enterprises.ibm.ibmProd.3.1.1.4.0 (OctetString): default:
> Acknowled
> ged 211382
> [4] private.enterprises.ibm.ibmProd.3.1.1.5.0 (OctetString): 211382
> [5] private.enterprises.ibm.ibmProd.3.1.1.6.0 (OctetString): openview
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James,

I do not understand it myself.  We have an identical box on our network in another location that is not generateing these traps.  Both boxes are running Netview 6.0 on solarus 2.7 OS.  The TRAPD.CONF file was customised by a person at another company we merged with so I am unsure of all of it's details.  I did search it for anything I could recognise that would cause this.  I am fairly new to netview so am probably overlooking the obvious.

How would I go about adding this trap to prevent further problems?

Mike

James Shanks wrote:

 
I recognize the message but you'll have to tell us what it is doing in /var/mail/netview.

The trap is the new global Acknowldeged  trap, though I am mystified as to why you get the Unformatted trap part, because by default NetView will format all his own traps whether there is an entry in trapd.conf or not.   You could always add one if you wanted to format the trap yourself.
But  what have you got set up that is sending this as a mail message?  You'd have to have some customization in place to do that.

What level of code and what OS are you using?  Has someone customized traps in trapd to send mail?

James Shanks
Level 3 Support  for Tivoli NetView for UNIX and NT
Tivoli Software / IBM Software Group
 
 
 
 

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Hi,

My Netview server is being flooded by the following messages in the
/var/mail/netview file.  I cannot identify where they are comeing from.
Does anyone out there recognise these messages and could you provide
some guidence in controlling this.  It is bringing my box to it's knees.

Thanks,
Mike
 
 

From: Super-User <root>
Message-Id:
<200111081908.fA8J7oo06749@dsm21001.nws.us.americas.intranet>
To: netview
Subject: Unformatted Trap: E: NetView, e: 1.3.6.1.4.1.2.6.3.1, S:
50790450
Content-Length: 555

Trap found with no known format in trapd.conf(4)
Enterprise NetView (1.3.6.1.4.1.2.6.3.1) community public
generic trap:6 specific trap:50790450
Timestamp:31938 Agentaddr:dsm21001 args(5):
[1] private.enterprises.ibm.ibmProd.3.1.1.2.0 (Integer): 4
[2] private.enterprises.ibm.ibmProd.3.1.1.3.0 (OctetString): dsm21001
[3] private.enterprises.ibm.ibmProd.3.1.1.4.0 (OctetString): default:
Acknowled
ged 211382
[4] private.enterprises.ibm.ibmProd.3.1.1.5.0 (OctetString): 211382
[5] private.enterprises.ibm.ibmProd.3.1.1.6.0 (OctetString): openview
 
 

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From: Super-User <root>
Message-Id:
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To: netview
Subject: Unformatted Trap: E: NetView, e: 1.3.6.1.4.1.2.6.3.1, S:
50790450
Content-Length: 554

Trap found with no known format in trapd.conf(4)
Enterprise NetView (1.3.6.1.4.1.2.6.3.1) community public
generic trap:6 specific trap:50790450
Timestamp:4263 Agentaddr:dsm21001 args(5):
[1] private.enterprises.ibm.ibmProd.3.1.1.2.0 (Integer): 4
[2] private.enterprises.ibm.ibmProd.3.1.1.3.0 (OctetString): dsm21001
[3] private.enterprises.ibm.ibmProd.3.1.1.4.0 (OctetString): default:
Acknowled
ged 211382
[4] private.enterprises.ibm.ibmProd.3.1.1.5.0 (OctetString): 211382
[5] private.enterprises.ibm.ibmProd.3.1.1.6.0 (OctetString): openview
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