Re: RES: [nv-l] ovtstatus

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

Ok, here's what you do to recover the
files ovstart, ovstop, ovstatus from the CDROM.
Warning:  This is NOT safe to do
for any file that is configured during installation, or any file that is
updated by a test-fix from support, or any file that is updated by a fixpack!!
 You can potentially destroy your NetView and NetView databases if
you regress or unconfigure components of NetView.  Please understand
what you are doing.  I recommend that you perform this procedure on
a non-NetView, non-Framework AIX box somewhere, if you have the resources
available.

First you need to locate the program
"sapack".  If you are on a system that has Framework installed,
it should be in $BINDIR/TAS/Install.  If you are not Framework-based
or you are going to do this on a non-NetView, non-Framework AIX box somewhere
(recommended) it is supplied in cdrom/instbund/bin/aix5-r1.

1. Locate your NetView 7.1.4 for AIX
CDROM;  mount it

2. Create a new directory where you
have lots of space.  Specifically you should have 200 megabytes free.

3. cd into the new directory.  This
is very important.  You can kiss your NetView good-bye if you are
in / (root) after this.

4. read 3 again.

5.  run this command  (example
path to sapack on cdrom shown):

     /mnt/instbund/bin/aix5-r1/sapack
 -u  /mnt/FILE30.PKT

6. cd  usr/OV/bin  (note:
no leading /   this is a usr/OV/bin that is relative to the directory
created in step 2)

7. cp  ovst*  /usr/OV/bin

Now your ovstatus, ovstart, and ovstop
are restored to 7.1.4 base level

8. run the following:

     ls  -ial  /usr/OV/bin/ovst*

All three programs should have the same
inode number and length.


If any of this is a problem, open a
problem with support and then we can send you the code.



Regards,
Geo.

George deSocio
IBM Americas Support - Distributed Network Management
Dept 46-E1ZA
IBM B660  CC109
HWY 54 & 600 Park Offices
Research Triangle Park, NC  27709

919-254-2259 (T/L 444)  Fax: 919-543-7936 (T/L 441)

E-Mail:  desocio@us.ibm.com

George deSocio/Raleigh/IBM@IBMUS
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11/12/2004 04:47 PM

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Correction: When you overlay one, you overlay all, since
the three names are all hard links to one file.  That is one file
with three names.  Thus you have no ovstart, ovstop, ovstatus program.
  

If you have your cdrom available, I'll send you a solution... give me a
few minutes... 



Regards,
Geo.

George deSocio
IBM Americas Support - Distributed Network Management
Dept 46-E1ZA
IBM B660  CC109
HWY 54 & 600 Park Offices
Research Triangle Park, NC  27709

919-254-2259 (T/L 444)  Fax: 919-543-7936 (T/L 441)

E-Mail:  desocio@us.ibm.com

"Eduardo Oliveira Scricco (Service)" <escricco@rge-rs.com.br>
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11/12/2004 03:02 PM

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Thanks, James. 
  
In my case, I have done some stupid thing like "./ovstatus >>
ovstatus" (I've missed the .txt or something else to the output) and
this replaced my ovstatus, as like ovstart and ovstop.
  
And unfortunetlly I only have backup from databases, logs and confs, not
from bin directory. 
  
Maybe some good soul can email me this! I will be grateful!
  
(Netview 7.1.4 for Unix...) ;) 
  
Thanks again, 
Eduardo 
  
  
-----Mensagem original-----
De: owner-nv-l@lists.us.ibm.com [mailto:owner-nv-l@lists.us.ibm.com]
Em nome de James Shanks
Enviada em: sexta-feira, 12 de novembro de 2004 17:48
Para: nv-l@lists.us.ibm.com
Assunto: Re: [nv-l] ovtstatus


You are in luck!  ovstop, ovstart and ovstatus are all the same executable,
which is replicated three times with a different name to provide convenience.
 Do an "ls -l ovst*" and  "cksum ovst*" and
you'll see that this is true.  Just copy ovstop or ovstart to a new
file, /usr/OV/bin/ovstatus, and that should suffice. 
 
In the case of other executables you would not be so lucky.  The installation
install code on the CD cannot be made to give up a single file from out
of the various file packages, so far as I know.  You'd have to install
the code on another box and ftp over what you'd lost, or do a backup of
user data from serversetup, delete your current NetView,  and then
do a migration (upgrade) install.  Then, if you have FixPacks or test
fixes applied, you'd have to re-apply those. 

If you absolutely couldn't do either of those, then you most likely have
to open a call to IBM Support as a Priority one issue.  It may seem
silly, but there are problems with sending proprietary computer code outside
the United States these days.  While even ovstatus is not a complex
piece of code,  I believe that it would unfortunately violate both
international copyright laws and US technology export laws for me, or anyone
else in US, to just send it to you.  But if you go through channels,
so that your identity and entitlement is verified, then there is no problem.
  So that's why you'd need a call to IBM Support for anything which
was not duplicated. 

Once you get ovstatus back working, my guess is that you are going to tar
up all of  /usr/OV and save it somewhere; perhaps to tape or compressed
in another filesystem.  Good idea.  It never hurts to have  a
backup. 

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

"Eduardo Oliveira Scricco (Service)" <escricco@rge-rs.com.br>
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11/12/2004 02:11 PM

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Hi all,

I accidentally deleted the "ovstatus" from /usr/OV/bin in my
Netview.
Where I can get it?

Thanks
Eduardo