RE: [nv-l] having problems starting ovtopmd

[George deSocio <desocio@us.ibm.com>]

Kevin,

To help determine why it works at boot
time and fails from the command line,
You can do a find on the system:
"find  /  -fstype jfs
 -type f  -name libtas.a  -ls"
Note the different copies you find.
Then determine the correct library by
examining the LIBPATH environment variable value in a trapd trace run momentarily.

Issue the command "trapd -T"
twice (five seconds apart) from the command line while all the daemons
are running correctly.
Look in /usr/OV/log/trapd.trace and
see the environment printed there.  You should see the LIBPATH that
works for the daemons.
Issue echo $LIBPATH from the command
line.  It should be different than the other one.
You should see a match between the two
LIBPATH's and the output of the find command.



Regards,
Geo.

George deSocio
IBM Americas Support - Distributed Network Management
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"Kevin Campbell" <kcampbell@tgen.org> Sent by: owner-nv-l@lists.us.ibm.com 01/23/2004 04:04 PM Please respond to nv-l

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The only thing I can think
of is that this is our TSM server as well. HMM. Could this be causing the
problem?
I can halt and restart TSM
without any problems
 
Thanks,
KevinC
-----Original Message-----
From: George deSocio [mailto:desocio@us.ibm.com] 
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 1:41 PM
To: nv-l@lists.us.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [nv-l] having problems starting ovtopmd
 

Kevin, 

I meant to ask, 

Did you install NetView using the stand-alone command line on a machine
that also has Framework installed?

The symptom you have is that there is more than one level of Framework
shared libraries on the system.  You get a mixed bag via an incorrect
LIBPATH from the command line.  netnmrc gets it right at boot time.

Regards,
Geo.

George deSocio
IBM Americas Support - Distributed Network Management
Dept 46-E1ZA
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Research Triangle Park, NC  27709

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George deSocio/Raleigh/IBM@IBMUS Sent by: owner-nv-l@lists.us.ibm.com 01/23/2004 03:23 PM Please respond to nv-l

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NetView daemons are ALL stopped via "/usr/OV/bin/ovstop nvsecd".  If you have another daemon such as the tdwdaemon or another 3rd part daemon registered in ovsuf, you will have to stop that too.  Basically when the last daemon is stopped (normally nvsecd because all others are dependent), ovspmd will shut itself down.


Regards,
Geo.

George deSocio
IBM Americas Support - Distributed Network Management
Dept 46-E1ZA
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Stephen Hochstetler/Austin/IBM@IBMUS Sent by: owner-nv-l@lists.us.ibm.com 01/23/2004 02:43 PM Please respond to nv-l

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Kevin,

There is an environment created when you do /etc/netnmrc that the programs run in. Finding the right libraries is part of that. If you do the command 'ovstart ovtopmd', it is actually telling ovspmd to start ovtopmd. However, if ovspmd was not started the right way, it will not have the proper environment to pass onto ovtopmd. ovtopmd will die with the message that you see

Let's try to fix this by doing:

ovstop (this should stop all the daemons)

/etc/netnmrc (this should start all the daemons with the right environment )


Stephen Hochstetler shochste@us.ibm.com
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