Jason,
I haven't looked at the example application but I can give our
experience.
We have created a customised map using the APIs you mention. Our map is
fixed and never changes so it isn't tied to the Netview discovery
mechanism. On startup the code checks if the symbols already exist and
creates them if they don't exist. We never delete the symbols because we
want them to be there when the user next starts the Netview GUI.
The only time the map and its symbols gets deleted is when we clear the
Netview databases. We clear the databases infrequently and use the
command "nv6000_smit clear_topology_db_all".
Robin
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [NV-L] OVw Question
Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 08:07:53 -0500
From: "Allison, Jason (JALLISON)" <JALLISON@arinc.com>
Reply-To: IBM NetView Discussion <nv-l@tkg.com>
To: "'nv-l@tkg.com'" <nv-l@tkg.com>
Resend of "Question regarding prg_samples/ovw_examples/app7/seven.c", it
did
not seem to get through the first send.
The goal of example app7 is "This is a sample map application that
discovers
the nfs clients served by a system". My question is regarding OVw
internal
"destroying" of symbols and submaps created via this application.
-- snip
if ((submapId = OVwCreateSubmap (map, compObjInfo->object_id,
ovwSharedSubmap,
ovwNoSubmapType, submapname,
ovwStarLayout, 0))
== ovwNullSubmapId) {
-- end snip
-- snip
OVwCreateSymbol (map, submapId, sysObjInfo->object_id,
"Computer:Workstation", host,
ovwUnknownStatus,
ovwSymbolStatusSource,
center_pos, ovwNoSymbolFlags)
-- end snip
My question(s) is:
- When an operator takes the action to close a map (submap), are the
symbols
created by this app (as well as the submap) deleted from the OVw db? If
so,
how and when?
- If I want to create a submap and symbols, what are the "best
practices"
for cleanup? The routine for this is OVwDeleteSubmap and
OVwDeleteSymbol.
Where do the deletes get hooked in?
Thanks,
Jason Allison
ARINC Corporation
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