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From: "Scott Hammons" <shammons@aisconsulting.net>
Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 07:26:14 -0700
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Mario, 
 
Look at this KB article from the NetView Support site:
 
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=658&context=SSGMPW&q1=icmp+socket&uid=swg1PJ30029&loc=en_US&cs=utf-8&lang=en
 
The short of it is that you should have more detailed information now in the 
nv.log file on why this may be occurring and there is a temporary fix but you 
need to get if from Level 2 Support so you'll need to open a PMR. 
 
Hope this helps,
 
Scott
 
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From: owner-nv-l@lists.us.ibm.com on behalf of Jennifer Parker
Sent: Wed 5/3/2006 09:08
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Subject: Re: [nv-l] Netmon not starting - "Cannot open icmp socket" error



Mario - 

At this point, you may wish to open a call with support. 

Regards,
Jennifer Parker
jennpa@us.ibm.com
Level 3 Software Engineer
IBM Tivoli Distributed NetView
Research Triangle Park,  North Carolina
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Hi Jennifer,

Remember this problem ??..........Well, I´ve removed NetView and installed it 
again on those two NEC machines I´ve talked about (they have identical hw 
configuration)..........and I´ve got the same error again after some discovery.

Also, I´ve installed NV on a completely different machine, a workstation 
actually, running the exactly same configuration (Win2000, NV 7.1.4, 
FP04).........the only difference was the hw. I´ve done this for testing 
purposes only but NV performed well, with no errors and discovered 7,000 
objects......

My point is, I am very much suspicious of these servers hardwares, but I do not 
have enough information to blame it.

Any ideas ??

Thanks.




----- Original Message ----
From: Jennifer Parker <jennpa@us.ibm.com>
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Sent: Monday, March 20, 2006 6:08:01 PM
Subject: Re: [nv-l] Netmon not starting - "Cannot open icmp socket" error


Mario - 

The unfortunate possibility exists that NetView install is now corrupted.  The 
fact is that despite Microsoft's assurances that any well-written application 
can be run within Terminal Services, my experience has been quite the opposite 
- unless an application is written specifically to use Microsoft's Terminal 
Services, there will be issues.  I have found myself in a situation where 
someone was receiving an identical error message and it was discovered that 
Terminal Services had been used, both for installation of the product and many 
times in the normal operations of starting and stopping the daemons and 
bringing up maps.  Sometimes, it would appear stable, and other times we could 
not keep netmon up and running.  Luckily, this was in a test environment, and 
we were able to uninstall NetView and reinstall it in order to overcome the 
issue. 

Note that you can have Terminal Services enabled and running on any system, 
Windows 2000 and later, that is running NetView.  It affects nothing for it to 
be running on the same system.  The problem comes in when they try to do 
anything NetView related remotely, via the Terminal Services, such as 
manipulating the daemons, the NetView service or the map.  Terminal Services 
should never be used to access any functions or portions of NetView.   

Thanks. 

Regards,
Jennifer Parker
jennpa@us.ibm.com
Level 3 Software Engineer
IBM Tivoli Distributed NetView
Research Triangle Park,  North Carolina
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And I'm not sure about the former." -- Albert Einstein
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<http://www-3.ibm.com/software/sysmgmt/products/support/> 
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Mario Behring <mariobehring@yahoo.com> 
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Hi Jennifer,

Yes, I was using TS, but NV was running ok. I´ve heard something about not 
being able to use TS with NV but I´ve completely forgot about it............in 
any case, after I´ve got your message I´ve disabled the TS service and rebooted 
the machine but the error remains. Should I uninstall TS ?

Thanks.

Mario





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Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2006 12:31:32 PM
Subject: Re: [nv-l] Netmon not starting - "Cannot open icmp socket" error


Mario - 

Are you using Terminal Services?  Terminal Services is not supported for use 
with NetView. 

Thanks. 

Regards,
Jennifer Parker
jennpa@us.ibm.com
Level 3 Software Engineer
IBM Tivoli Distributed NetView
Research Triangle Park,  North Carolina
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And I'm not sure about the former." -- Albert Einstein
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Hi list,

I have a NV 7.1.4 FP04 running on a Windows 2000 Server box. Everything was 
fine when suddenly the netmon daemon stopped...........and now I get this error 
message at the ovstatus output and netmon does not start anymore.

I´ve checked the nv.log file and found these lines there:

03/15/06 16:13:15 [netview] Parsing configuration file D:\ usr\ ov\ conf\ c\ 
explore.conf
03/15/06 16:13:18 [nmpolling] Failed to connect to netmon's shared memory 
segment; error: The system cannot find the file specified.

I looked for this error at the IBM website but I´ve found only an explanation 
for AIX machines.

Another thing............this is the second time this error happens on the 
present machine, a NEC Express 5800 with 4 processors and 1.5GB RAM. The first 
time took place at the beggining of the discovery process, so I´ve just 
uninstalled NV and installed it again. But now I have too many objects already 
discovered so.................

Is it possible that this problem could be a hardware thing ???? Judging by the 
"netmon's shared memory segment" part of the error message. Just a 
thought.......

Any help is appreciated.


Thanks.

Mario


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