Only the NetView daemons are set up to core into /usr/OV/PD/cores.  The
user GUI will always coe into the home directory of the user who started
the process.     If the coring process is ipmap or ovw_binary, you could
format the nettl logs,
      netfmt -f  /usr/OV/log/nettl.LOG00 > formatted.LOG00
      netfmt -f  /usr/OV/log/nettl.LOG01 > formatted.LOG01
to see if there is more information available about what happened.  Then
you will need to run the
     /usr/OV/service/readcore
utility to get a stack trace.  The utility requires you to have dbx
installed.

For ipmap, the problem is almost always a bad/incomplete object in the
database, which, once removed, clears everything up.  I doubt there is
anything you can do about a core in ovw_binary except call Support.  I
suspect the same is true for an Nways core.

Good luck,
James Shanks
Tivoli (NetView for UNIX) L3 Support



Dror Katzman <zdror AT IL.IBM DOT COM> on 12/24/98 07:12:56 AM

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:  nv gui fails





aix 421+ nv51 + nway 122 on 43p,512m,1 giga ps, df is ok .
 Every once in a while NV gui disappear on us and a core dump is
 created (not in /usr/OV/PD ... but in user home directory )
 We can not recreate the problem and it is unpredictable .
The last time it happened , the core showed
/usr/CML/bin/nwsstatif
and the other time it was ovw_binary .
I can not recreate the problem , it happens once a day .
The last time it occured was when I was working with ipmap .
Did not see anything in errpt ,
The problem is only with NV gui , the dtterm were ok .
Did any body experience it ?
 Thanks Dror