RE: [nv-l] debug libraries

[JAMES Robin <robin.james@eurocontrol.int>]

I was interested in the debug libraries because I am curious to find out where the problem is. It could be our code or the Netview libraries. If it turned out to be Netview then there is nothing that can be done to fix it.

The core file shows the get response PDU returned to the session callback function is nothing like expected. There are 3 varbinds instead of 1. The oid and value in the first varbind are rubbish. The length of the oid in the second varbind is huge. This is probably why the free PDU call causes a core dump.

 

Regards

Robin

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nv-l@lists.us.ibm.com [mailto:owner-nv-l@lists.us.ibm.com] On Behalf Of James Shanks
Sent: Tuesday 06 July 2004 14:52
To: nv-l@lists.us.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [nv-l] debug libraries

It would highly 
unlikely that you could obtain a debug library for the level you are at. 
 That's what being out of support means. 

That level of code (NetView 6.0.3 for Digital UNIX) is no 
longer active and it would be archived somewhere.  Since Digital UNIX is no 
longer a supported platform, and has not been fro several years, we no longer 
even have any Digital Unix boxes around that I am aware of.   Speaking for 
the Level 3 maintenance team, there are no build machines left for it in our 
possession.  And even if you got a debug library, and even if you found a 
problem in OVSnmpFreePdu, so what?  You could not fix it without source 
code, and that would not be forthcoming without some very unusual, and probably 
very expensive, exclusive use marketing agreements.   Even for us to fix it 
for you would be very expensive. 

In 
any case, if you want to pursue this, I would discuss it with your IBM marketing 
rep.  In the long run however, I believe that it would be far simpler and 
cheaper to adopt Linux as a platform at the current version. 


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

JAMES Robin <robin.james@eurocontrol.int>
Sent by: owner-nv-l@lists.us.ibm.com

07/05/2004 11:01 AM

Please respond to
nv-l

To	"'Nv-L (nv-l@lists.us.ibm.com)'" <nv-l@lists.us.ibm.com>
cc
Subject	[nv-l] debug libraries

Hi
I am using the Netview SNMP API on Digital UNIX and our version 
of Netview is 6 (.03?).

Is there a way to get debug versions of the 
Netview libraries? The main problem would be our version of Netview is not 
supported anymore.

I am interested in the debug versions because one of 
our programs core dumped after calling OVsnmpFreePdu. This happens infrequently. 
I wanted to do some memory leak checks using Third.

The call to 
OVsnmpFreePdu is made having processed a get response PDU. The core dump shows 
the get response PDU to be a little odd in that the program requested 1 varbind 
and the response had 3 varbinds. 


Many thanks
Robin 
James

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