My scenario is that many of my clients find the menus presented by
right-clicking on the NetView icon on the Tivoli Desktop, tedious.  They just
want a simple Tivoli Job that starts the NetView EUI, without nv6000.log
logging.  I have written a small script as follows:
#!/bin/ksh
. /home/jane/.profile
. /home/.kshrc            (this in turn sources the Tivoli environment)
cd /home/`whoami`
/usr/OV/bin/netview -nl
exit 0

The script is then encapsulted in a Tivoli task that runs as UID jane, GID
staff - this in turn is encapsulated as a Tivoli Job that runs on the NetView
endpoint.

I am still having difficulty deleting nodes.  I have also tested running the
EUI from the right button of the NetView icon - the deletion problem doesn't
seem to happen but it still doesn't pick up my saved workspace environment -
can't see what's different between this and running nv6000 -nl from the command
line.

Many thanks for any further discussion,
Jane
James Shanks wrote:

> I am not certain what you are doing here, so I have nothing to give you but
> other questions.
> When you say you are doing this as a Tivoli task, do you mean that you
> start the NetView GUI from the Framework context menu that looks like the
> old SMIT menu, (you get that by right clicking the  NetView managed node
> from the Tivoli desktop) under the Control option, or some other way?
>
> When you start the map in the fashion, what does it say in the lower
> left-hand corner?  Usually there is an indication of the map name, the user
> who has it open, and whether it is read/write or read/only.

>> Bottom left has default@poppet [Read-Write] which is fine
>> Bottom right has Workspace Name: jane.events1 and Rule Name: >>
check_ping_rs which is fine and shows it has read my .Xdefaults file.

>
>
> James Shanks
> Tivoli (NetView for UNIX) L3 Support
>
> Jane Curry <jane.curry AT SKILLS-1ST.CO DOT UK> on 01/11/99 01:19:44 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:  [Fwd: Starting NetView EUI from Tivoli task]
>
> Further quirks with starting NetView from a Tivoli task.......
> It appears that node deleting / adding doesn't work properly if done
> from a NetView started via the Tivoli task described below.  If I delete
> a node, I get no "Node deleted" event card, ovobjprint and ovtopodump
> both show the node still and the node (obviously) never gets
> re-discovered.
>
> If I do exactly the same as me but by starting NetView via nv6000 from a
> command prompt, it all works fine.
>
> PLEASE can anyone shed light on this??
>
> Cheers, Jane
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Starting NetView EUI from Tivoli task
> Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 16:05:45 +0000
> From: Jane Curry <jane.curry AT skills-1st.co DOT uk>
> To: NetView mailing list <NV-L AT UCSBVM.ucsb DOT edu>
>
> NetView 5.1, Framework 3.6, AIX 4.2.1, ....
>
> I have a Tivoli task that starts the NetView EUI (without going through
> all the extra windows that you get from the standard Tivoli NetView
> desktop menus).  I use the -nl option to prevent the NetView log.  This
> works fine.
>
> Unfortunately, started from the Tivoli task, NetView cannot find my
> saved workspace environment which is in $HOME/NvEnvironment - standard
> if you set the nvevents.saveEnvOnExit widget in your home .Xdefaults.
> Everything else seems to be picked up fine from my own .Xdefaults and I
> have put in nvevents.saveDir explicitly as $HOME/NvEnvironment.  I have
> tried wrapping my EUI startup script with a command to source the Tivoli
> environment and another to change to my home directory before calling
> the netview command - all to no avail.  The script works fine run from
> the command line and finds my saved workspaces OK.
>
> Can anyone offer any clues??
> Thanks, Jane
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