Did you cut&paste the copied trap(s) with the mouse? In this case the
long lines of the description may be terminated by linefeeds. Normally
they should have only one linefeed at the end of the description. I also
edited the trapd.conf during migration because of some descriptions
beeing longer then 99 words (Cisco-Traps), but everything worked fine.
You should check very carefully the {}'s and ""'s etc.

Hope this helps

Michael Seibold
debis Systemhaus Gmbh
DaimlerChrysler Services



James Shanks wrote:
>
> I think you'll have to call Support on this one and send in your
> trapd.conf.
> I've not seen one like this before.  But I can tell you that the awk script
> is very positionally dependent (aren't they all).
> If you made any manual changes to trapd.conf that could behind it.  If not,
> well, I don't know what to tell you, except to call Support.
>
> James Shanks
> Tivoli (NetView for UNIX) L3 Support
>
> "Desai, Aditya" <DesaiA AT USA.REDCROSS DOT ORG> on 12/01/98 01:45:44 PM
>
> Please respond to Discussion of IBM NetView and POLYCENTER Manager on
>       NetView <NV-L AT UCSBVM.UCSB DOT EDU>
>
> To:   NV-L AT UCSBVM.UCSB DOT EDU
> cc:    (bcc: James Shanks)
> Subject:  Migration from Netview 5.0 to Netview 5.1Problem
>
> Hi all
>
> I am trying to upgrade NetView 5.0 to NV5.1.  The framework version is
> 3.2 on AIX 4.2.  The migration script fails at trapd.conf.  The
> update.log.fail has a line stating could not find SDESC at line # 1772.
> But the SDESC is there.  The difference is it fails on those trap
> definitions for which I have copied the trap to take a different action.
>
> Any comment
>
> Thanks in Advance
>
> Ed Desai