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RE: [nv-l] NV 713 - Solaris : Paging and Mailing help required.

2003-01-14 11:50:28
Subject: RE: [nv-l] NV 713 - Solaris : Paging and Mailing help required.
From: James Shanks <jshanks AT us.ibm DOT com>
To: nv-l AT lists.tivoli DOT com
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 10:35:11 -0500
Congratulations. Good job on what you have achieved so far. 

I have two pieces of advice.
(1)  unsuccessful pages are saved in a warm start file called 
/usr/OV/conf/nvpager.warm.  The pager daemon will retry these many times 
before giving up on them, and if he is running with the -w option, then 
every time he starts up again he reads this file and tries to send any 
pages he finds there.  When testing it is a good idea to use serversetup 
to remove the -w option (use 'ps -ef | grep nvpagerd' to see whether it is 
in use), so that if you have a bad page, then you can just stop the daemon 
(ovstop nvpagerd) to have it thrown away.

(2) there are nvpagerd logs in /usr/OV/log which may be helpful.  If they 
are not, then I would call Support.  They can help you can cause the 
nvpagerd daemon to trace by running him with the -d option. As that is not 
an option in serversetup, you will have to add that manually to his 
definition in ovsuf, and Support will guide you with that. Then when the 
pages are attempted and fail there will be a complete trace of what 
happened and Support can interpret that for you to help discover why.

 If you want to do this on your own then I would make a backup copy of 
/usr/OV/conf/ovsuf before you start so that you can easily recover to a 
known state.  This file controls how all the daemons start and if you mess 
it up, NetView may not initialize correctly until you restore it.  The 
entries which begin with zero are the active ones; the entries which being 
with one are old, prior definitions.  To edit the file for nvpagerd, find 
the entry for him which starts with zero.  It should look something like 
this:
 
0:nvpagerd:/usr/OV/bin/nvpagerd:OVs_YES_START:nvsecd::OVs_WELL_BEHAVED:60:::
You will need to insert "-d" between the colons that precede 
OVs_WELL_BEHAVED so that it reads like this:
 
0:nvpagerd:/usr/OV/bin/nvpagerd:OVs_YES_START:nvsecd:-d:OVs_WELL_BEHAVED:60:::
Then when the nvpagerd daemon is stopped (ovstop nvpagerd) and restarted 
(ovstart nvpagerd) he will run with option and trace what he does.

Hope this helps -- 

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

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