Re: [nv-l] nvserverd event in TEC

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

Well, that is the standard "nvserverd
is ending message" you get when he is shut down, but that is not how
it looks when you do wtdumprl, so I'm not certain where you are reading
it from, though I suppose that does not matter.  From the nvserverd
code, the only way that the hostname would be UNKOWN is if it could not
be resolved, and the 0.0.0.0 IP address is what you get if we cannot determine
that.    Does DNS get shutdown too?  That might explain
the first case, but the latter has me confused too.

And this message should have come into
TEC within seconds of when you shut everything down, which it now seems
is what happened, not hours later.  
I thought you were home in bed at 1
am, and this was very old news.   Or am I missing something?  

But if we have bad name or address resolution
then it should show up in many TEC events, not just this one.  The
ones just before the shutdown are OK?   And things were OK after you
brought it up?  Is the adapter_host still the same before and after?

I couldn't be more confused by this
problem description.  There's some piece to this puzzle I don't have
but I don't know what it looks like.


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

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Sorry about that James,

I should have supplied more information. I hope the following helps you
help me. 

1) We added a interface to the IBM server. It is the 4th interface. No
changes were made to the other interfaces.
2) The interface IP addresses and names of all of the interfaces are in
the /etc/hosts files.
3) At 1am on Sunday morning - we backup the server so I shutdown NetView.
After the restart, I run reset_ci. 
4)The message in TEC is:
"nvserverd is ending. 
This Fatal Nvserverd_Event event was received by a TEC server at 5/30/04
1:05:22 AM."
The event source message is:
"This event was reported by NetView (TEC) from UNKNOWN.
It originated from 0.0.0.0 (TEC), on the host named "UNKNOWN".

Thanks in advance.
Ray Westphal
Enterprise Rent-A-Car






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The short answer is "no", nvserverd does not bind to an address,
whatever that means.  But it does try to resolve the address of it's
own NetView box. That's how the fields like adapter_ host are set.  
A new interface card?  Does it replace the old one?   
If you have changed NetView's address then you must do reset_ci and restart
the daemons. 

If none of this is helpful, it would be really helpful to the rest of us
if you would post the actual message you were paged for.  It's hard
having to guess what it looks like.  And it would be helpful to know
whether the same fields were messed up in other messages sent to TEC or
they are unique for this one. 


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


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Hello Everyone.
NetView 7.1.3 on AIX 5.2 ML2

I recently was paged at 1am for a nvserverd "Fatal" event that
showed up in TEC for an UNKNOWN server. The Tivoli admin checked his reception
log and confirmed the event was received by the TMR with the host UNKNOWN
and the IP address 0.0.0.0. Does nvserverd bind to a server IP address
and is there a way to determine the IP address? I think this is related
to installing a new interface on the NetView server. 

"wping", "odadmin odlist", "wlookup" and
other Tivoli commands all seem to work correctly.

Thanks in advance.
Ray Westphal
Enterprise Rent-A-Car