Re: [nv-l] netfmt

[James Shanks <jshanks@us.ibm.com>]

Well, I don't have a clue what is wrong,
but on Linux, it is the nettl process itself which spawns the netfmt -CF.
 But only one of those is spawned on my system and it stays active
only so long as nettl is active.  When I do a  "/usr/OV/bin/nettl
-stop"  both nettl and the netfmt go away.

You should be able to chase ownership
of the process via ps -ef.   Who is | are the parents of these rogue
netfmts?  Your current nettl or some other long gone?  What happens
when or if you do nettl -stop?   Once the main nettl goes away, you
should be able to kill those netfmt processes with impunity, though that
will not tell you why they are being created.  But you can stop and
restart nettl any time you wish.  Normally it is just started once
and keeps running until stopped.   If you stop nettl and kill all
the remaining netfmts, if any, and then restart nettl with nettl -start,
try looking with "ps -ef  |grep netfmt".  How many
do you see? Should be just one.  Try looking again every few minutes.


Offhand I see nothing in your status
that looks out of line.  Where would you look for a source of the
problem?  Well, I'm not sure, since I've never seen anything like
this before, but here's what I'd do:
(1) /usr/OV/bin/nettl -stop
(2) ps -ef  | grep netfmt.  kill
any you find
(3) cd /usr/OV/log
(4) ls nettl*    and see how
many you have, just netttl.LOG00 or also nettl.LOG01
(5) for each nettl.LOG0n you have, issue
        /usr/OV/bin/netfmt
-f  nettl.LOG0n  >  formatted.LOG0n 
        This
creates ascii files you can read.  
(6) Look in the formatted logs for interesting
error messages
(7) Call Support with what you find.

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

Mahesh Tailor <mahesh.tailor@network.carilion.com>
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05/10/2004 03:01 PM

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Subject	[nv-l] netfmt

Hi!

Running NetView 7.1.3 fp 2 on RedHat Linux AS 2.1.

I am having a problem with hundreds of netfmt -CF processes running and
eventually disabling the system because of too many open files [system
default open files has been set to 32K files].  How can I figure out
what is causing all these processes to start?  Here's my nettl status
output:

Logging Information:
Log Filename:                  
/usr/OV/log/nettl.LOG0x
User's ID:              0    
  Buffer Size:            8192
Messages Dropped:       0       Messages
Queued:        0
 
Subsystem Name:                
Log Class:
NON_IP                    
                     
          ERROR
DISASTER
DISTMAN                  
                     
   WARNING ERROR
DISASTER
SECURITY                  
                     
  WARNING ERROR
DISASTER
COLLECTION                  
                     
WARNING ERROR
DISASTER
SNMP                    
                     
            ERROR
DISASTER
CMOT                    
                     
            ERROR
DISASTER
OVE                    
                     
             ERROR
DISASTER
OVC                    
                     
             ERROR
DISASTER
OVW                    
                     
             ERROR
DISASTER
OVD                    
                     
             ERROR
DISASTER
OVS                    
               INFORMATIVE  
      ERROR
DISASTER
OVCAPI                    
                     
          ERROR
DISASTER
OVEXTERNAL                  
                     
        ERROR
DISASTER
OVWAPI                    
                     
          ERROR
DISASTER
TEST_ID_1                  
                     
              
DISASTER
TEST_ID_2                  
                     
              
DISASTER
FORMATTER                  
                     
              
DISASTER
 
 
Tracing Information:
 
Trace Filename:
No Subsystems Active


In addition to NetView the server also has the following running:

- MySQL DB
- Apache w/PHP and Perl.
- Some ksh scripts that perform /usr/OV/bin/nvUtil on various smartsets
once every 30-minutes.

That is essentially it.

Also, what does the netfmt -C option do?  It is not in the man page.

Thanks.

Mahesh