Re: [nv-l] trapd.conf and 40 character trap name length

[Francois Le Hir <flehir@ca.ibm.com>]

instead of deleting the entries in trapd.conf, you could just change the
name to have less than 40 characters. The names have to be uniq but the
name itself is not that important.

Salutations, / Regards,

Francois Le Hir
Network Projects & Consulting Services
IBM Global Services
Phone: (514) 964 2145


                                                                           
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NetView 7.1.3 AIX 4.3.3


Dell has a product called

Dell OpenManage Connection for Tivoli TME 10 Netview for AIX, AIX, English,
Multi System, v. 1.4, A00 dated 3/27/2002

Basically it loads the MIBS and trap configuration for the Dell Openmanage
applications into NetView using a shell script. The nice thing is all of
the MIBS are in one location and the trap configuration is already done.
It?s one stop shopping for loading Dell SNMP information.

Here is the issue I had. After running the script everything appeared to be
OK. I was doing some testing and attempted to restart the daemons. Trapd
failed to come back up and I got this message:

[/usr/OV/bin]>ovstart trapd
 object manager name: trapd
 behavior:            OVs_WELL_BEHAVED
 state:               FAILED
 PID:                 30922
 last message:        trapd.conf file not loaded because trap name length
[41] exceeds maximum size permitted of 40
  in line #14149 of "/usr/OV/conf/C/trapd.conf":
dmtfMotherboardPhysicalDeviceStatusChange {.1.3.6.1.4.1.412.2.4.6} 6 2 a 1
0 "Status Events".
 exit status:         -

After looking in the /usr/OV/conf/C/trapd.conf I saw that there were 42
traps loaded that exceeded 40 characters in the trap name. I had to
manually delete the traps from the trapd.conf before I could get the trapd
daemon to start.

Has anyone else had this issue? Was my solution in editing the trapd.conf
an acceptable solution?

I am going to open a ticket with Dell and let them know about the trouble.

Thanks,

Scott Bursik