Re: [NV-L] Slotmap formatting change from 7.1.3 and 7.1.4?

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

/usr/OV/service/

Should have a subdirectory V713 on 7.1.3 systems, or V714 on 7.1.4 systems, if you have applied any maintenance. In that subdirectory will be a fix.list, a fix.log, and a separate subdirectory for each fix you applied, whether individual, such as IY53703, or group, such as FixPack4. When the patch is applied, the old code is stored here in these subdirectories in case you want to back out the fix.

At some point we started updating the /usr/OV/service/version file so that it says 7.1.3.x or 7.1.4.x where "x" is the FixPack level, but I don't recall at what point that was.

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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Where can I see my patch level?

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The source of the problem is how Cisco sends that variable, as an octet 
string, which by definition in SNMP, is printable ASCII. So trapd tries to 
make the best sense of it he can. He will dump the whole string to hex but 
only if at least half of it is unprintable, and in this case it is not.

Code was introduced in IY53703 for both 7.1.3 and 7.1.4 to handle this 
situation, by forcing trapd to print hex when any part of the string is 
unprintable, but you have to export an environment variable to use it. My 
guess is that this is configured for the 7.1.4 machine but not the 7.1.3. 
IY53703 is part of FixPack4 for 7.1.3, so if you have that level, then you 
can do the following.

1. Edit /usr/OV/bin/netnmrc.pre (or create one if necessary) and put this
line in it:
export TRAPD_STRICT_HEX_FORMAT=TRUE
2. ovstop nvsecd
3. /etc/netnmrc (on AIX) or /etc/init.d/netnmrc (on Solaris or Linux)

This will force ovspmd to set the environment variables and trapd will 
inherit it.

James Shanks
Level 3 Support for Tivoli NetView for UNIX and Windows
Network Availability Management
Network Management - Development
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