Re: [NV-L] servmon probably died: ungracefully disconnected from trapd

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

Well, the error message indicates that a second trapd is not configured now, so the only hope of finding our whether it once was, is to look in /usr/OV/conf/ovsuf where the daemon registrations go. It's a colon delimited file, with the first field being a one or zero, where 1=inactive and 0=active.
So you would look through that file for entries which start with
1:trapd:/usr/OV/bin/trapd:OVs_YES_START:nvsecd,pmd: <other options> :OVs_WELL_BEHAVED: ... more stuff

If you find any entries like this, then observe the "other options" between "nvsecd,pmd" and "OVs_WELL_BEHAVED". There may not be any options at all, but if there is either a -m (dash lowercase em) or -M (dash uppercase em) followed by an IP address or the hostname of another machine, then at one time in the past you were forwarding traps to another NetView's trapd. The -m means to forward only selective traps and these would need to be specified using the Forward button in xnmtrap. The -M means to forward all traps so there is no need to set the Forward, but it is on, it will not create the error message either.

If you find something like that and you want to restore the forwarding to that machine, your best bet is to re-register the trapd daemon using serversetup, Configure--> Options for daemons --> Options for event and trap processing daemons --> Set options for the trapd daemon, so that it gets made permanently. Then you'll probably have to ask someone else in your outfit why this was changed.


As for your other issue about wanting to administer things as a non-root user, you will be able to achieve that only through a sudo function. Some tasks in NetView, such as configuring traps, require root authority. This is logical since whomever can configure a trap, can cause it to run any command or script on the machine, and since all the daemons have root authority, that would result in a non-root user being able to run anything she or he chose with root authority.


James Shanks
Level 3 Support for Tivoli NetView for UNIX and Windows
Network Availability Management
Network Management - Development
Tivoli Software, IBM Corp
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Because I don't know what I'm doing, where would the second trapd be 
configured. Just in case there is a second one. I have just been 
configuring these new traps by rote. I don't want to change anything 
unless I can confirm we are not using a second trapd.

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Yes. Turn it off. Click the button back to "Do Not Forward" and the ugly 
error message on your TEC console will go away.

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No. The "Forward trap" button in xnmtrap is just to identify traps to be 
sent to another trapd. 

Where is the second trapd specified? Should this forwarding be turned off 
if it is not used?

Sean Lawrence
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