Vince, back to your original question, when I see that message from
ovtopofix, I ignore it. When I next open the map and it synchronizes,
I believe the offending object is gone (it was probably an interface
or something).  I may be wrong.

You might also want to check out the new option on ovmapcount , -b.
It searches the map databases for things that do not exist in the object
database. These would be things you CAN find on the map but which
have no object id when you display object info. I think this is the kind
of problem Blaine is talking about. These things have to be found
on the map and deleted, ovmapcount -b just points them out, apparently.

Cordially,

Leslie A. Clark
IBM Global Services - Systems Mgmt & Networking
(248) 552-4968 Voicemail, Fax, Pager


---------------------- Forwarded by Leslie Clark/Southfield/IBM on 01-11-99
10:51 PM ---------------------------


"Owens, Blaine C" <bowens AT EASTMAN DOT COM> on 01-11-99 08:41:05 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: Leslie Clark/Southfield/IBM)
Subject:  Re: Searching For & Deleting and Object





Hmm, may be a different problem. I actually was able to find the "20540"
submap even though there was no "visible" object on any submap and
deleted it. Still, delete and readd of all map references to this
particular nodename might fix. Good luck.

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 5:38 PM
> To:   NV-L AT UCSBVM.ucsb DOT edu
> Subject:      Re: Searching For & Deleting and Object
>
> Vince Rosso@TRANSALTA
> 08/01/99 03:38 PM
>
> I looked at all the submaps for the node and they all show the current
> object id.   Are you suggesting that I should delete all these
> references.
> Does that mean I should delete the node and all these references and
> then
> re-add the node.   Appreciate the help.
>
> vince
>
>
>
>
>
> 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!