RE: [nv-l] netmon won't start

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

Issue xnmsnmpconf and verify that either
the global default community name is the same as the read community name
in /etc/snmpd.conf or that there is a specific entry for the NetView box
itself which has the correct community name specified.

Then issue 
(1) stopsrc -s snmpd  
(2) ps -ef | grep snmpd  (to verify
that it is down)
(3) startsrc -s snmpd  
(4) ps -ef | grep snmpd (to verify that
it is up)
(5) ovstart netmon

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

"D'Apice, Dominic" <D.D'Apice@SAQ.qc.ca>
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11/19/2004 12:05 PM

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To	"'nv-l@lists.us.ibm.com'" <nv-l@lists.us.ibm.com>
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Subject	RE: [nv-l] netmon won't start

Hi,
 
i have the same /etc/snmpd.conf
file on both server and also the same /usr/OV/conf directorie...
 
what i should check exactly then
?
 
Dominic
 
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Objet : Re: [nv-l] netmon won't start


netmon needs to be configured with the appropriate SNMP community name
to be able to talk to the snmpd agent that resides on the same box as itself.

The global default community name within NetView's SNMP Configuration panel
and the loopback community name in snmpd.conf need to be the same.
OR 
If not the global default, then you need to have an entry (such as a specific
entry) in NetView's SNMP Configuration for the NetView host box  where
its community name matches the community name in the snmpd.conf file.

Cheers, 

Gareth Holl
Staff Software Engineer
gholl@us.ibm.com

IBM Software Group - Tivoli Brand
Research Triangle Park,  North Carolina.

"D'Apice, Dominic" <D.D'Apice@SAQ.qc.ca>
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11/18/2004 04:10 PM

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Subject	[nv-l] netmon won't start

Hello all,

i got a error when i copy the /usr/OV/conf dir. from my production  
   
server to my pre-production netview server when i ovstart my pre-  
    
production server i got this :


----------------------------------------------------------------------------
----                    
         
object manager name: netmon              
                     
        
behavior:            OVs_WELL_BEHAVED  
                     
         
state:               FAILED    
                     
                 
PID:                 31714  
                     
                    
last message:        Can't talk to snmpd; see /usr/OV/log/netmon.trace
for
info                    
                    
exit status:         -        
                     
                  
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
----

                    
                     
                
Cannot communicate with SNMP Agent via loopback address (127.0.0.1); it
is
either not running or has been configured with a community name different
from that configured into Tivoli NetView for this system. If a community
name has
been configured into the SNMP Agent, that community name must be configured
via xnmsnmpconf and /usr/OV/conf/ovsnmp.conf for address 127.0.0.1 as well
as for the hostname or IP address of this system.
Or, the /usr/OV/conf/snmpmib and /usr/OV/conf/snmpmib.bin files are
corrupted
and need to be rebuilt using the
Maintain->Rebuild MIB binary file with installation MIB defaults
option in NetView configuration menu
            


any idea what can be wrong ?     

thanks
Dominic