Vince, do Locate --> Submap. Depending on how many nodes you have on
your map this could take a LONG time. On the resulting screen enter
"nodename" in the Find Submap blank and hit return/enter. Select the
node and click Delete. I had to do this recently for the same reason.

Blaine Owens
Eastman Chemical Company
Email - bowens AT eastman DOT com
Phone - (423)229-3579
Fax     - (423)229-1188

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vince Rosso [SMTP:Vince_Rosso AT TRANSALTA DOT COM]
> Sent: Friday, January 08, 1999 1:05 PM
> To:   NV-L AT UCSBVM.ucsb DOT edu
> Subject:      Searching For & Deleting and Object
>
> Vince Rosso@TRANSALTA
> 08/01/99 11:04 AM
>
> We are running Netview 4.1 on a Digital Unix platform.  After running
> "ovtopofix -a " the log that is printed shows a couple of nodes with
> the
> message as follows:
> "nodename (20540) - - removed from topology, still in 1 maps"
> "nodename (20540) - - Please delete object from all maps"
> "Updating nodename (objid = 20539)"
>
> After running ovobjprint, ovtopodump and ovmapdump the results all
> show the
> new objid of 20539, but I can't find any reference to the objid 20540.
> Is
> there any way to search by object ID rather than host name.   Is there
> some
> other means to delete references to the old object id.  Thanks!