I've had a lovely day of witnessing some trapd.conf and netview rulset corruption. I believe some parsing errors in trapd.conf (reported after running addtrap commands) may have contributed to the ru
Author: "James Shanks" <SHANKS AT us.tivoli DOT com>
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 19:49:50 -0400
Todd - I am sorry for your difficulties. Perhaps I can clarify some things, but the bottom line is that you need to apply more current maintenance. NetView 6.0? Why not 6.0.2? I cannot emphasize enou
Having remembered several nvcorrd problems --> get 6.0.2, I suspected this might be the way. :-) Sho' nuff. It has a reset on match and threshold along with a bunch of forwards and trap settings node
Author: "James Shanks" <SHANKS AT us.tivoli DOT com>
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 07:15:02 -0400
addtrap causes a format change trap to be issued after every execution. That is why we recommend that you issue a sleep between them if you have many in a single script or stop trapd while the script
This is the first I've heard of such a recommendation. Good to know!! As to fixing the trapd.conf file, is there a utility I can run to parse it for errors, or does sending that change trap perform s
Author: "James Shanks" <SHANKS AT us.tivoli DOT com>
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 13:31:40 -0400
If trapd is running, and you issue "event -e FMTCHG", trapd will try to reload /usr/OV/conf/C/trapd.conf. If successful, trapd just starts using the new file and no messages are produced. If there ar
I must be getting better at this James. I'm starting to actually understand your replies. :-) Thanks for the excellent tips. Question: how portable are rulesets across NetView versions? Will a 6.02 r
Author: "James Shanks" <SHANKS AT us.tivoli DOT com>
Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2001 10:55:47 -0400
Rulesets are generally portable. The ruleset itself is just an ASCII file. They are always upward compatible. Downward is a bit riskier. For example, the Query Smartset node was added in either Versi
Now that I've restored an older trapd.conf, and I don't get any errors, I'm not longer under the impression that trapd.conf is corrupted--but the ruleset is another matter. My ruleset, is doing stran