The reason that description fields of over 99 words is a problem is that
the migration uses awk to merge your old trapd.conf with the new one, and
awk has a 99 operand limit, so the merge script will fail on those traps.
So what you have to do is make a copy of that trapd.conf file for
safekeeping, then edit the original to remove those long descriptions, and
after the migration you can add them back again.

It's ugly I know but I didn't write this and I am not responsible for it.

James Shanks
Tivoli (NetView for UNIX) L3 Support



"Radcliffe Jr, Arthur W" <arthur.radcliffe AT AETNA DOT COM> on 03/11/99 
02:14:15
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Subject:  Netview 4 to 5.1 Upgrade  chktrapd.con script





Hello all,

While doing a Netview Version 4 to 5.1 upgrade, I ran the chktrapd.con
script, and received a number of errors stating that the length of the
Description field of traps, was greater than 99 words.  I was wondering
why
the script would check for that,  why the length of the Description field
is
an issue to Netview 5.1 and whether we need to do anything to those
description fields.