I had some similiar problems with an earlier attempted install of sp4 and nv
5.1; as in your case, odbc drivers appeared to be the likely culprit,
although I was never able to determine why nv 5.1 would be so sensitive to
them.  I finally re-staged the server, re-installed nt 4.0 w/ *sp 3*, nv
5.1, and sql server *with no patches* - results seemed to be quite good.
However, as I described in earlier posts, upgrading to nv 5.1.1/mdac 2.0
appeared to have *again* put the khybash (sp?) on my netview server...again,
newer odbc drivers seem to be wreaking havoc.   After some wrestling with
trapd and the object database, I retreated to the safe territory of nv 5.1.
My $0.02.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wigg, David [SMTP:David.Wigg AT WANG DOT COM]
> Sent: Thursday, May 06, 1999 9:41 AM
> To:   NV-L AT UCSBVM.ucsb DOT edu
> Subject:      Netview 5.0 RevB/NT4 sp4/ODBC problem?
>
> Hi, I am installing Netview V5.0 RevB on NT4 Sp4. The installation
> completes
> ok and everything looks ok except for netmon and snmpcollect.
>
> There seems to be a problem with the ODBC access. If I set snmpcollect to
> not use ODBC it starts up ok. This is not the real problem however. I
> cannot
> get netmon to run. (fairly basic requirement!)
>
> The netview logfile shows:
>
> 05/06/99 08:27:38 [trapd] The ODBC data source Tess_ds does not seem to be
> configured correctly in the registry.
>
> 05/06/99 08:27:38 [trapd] Trapd: (initODBC) SQL could not connect to data
> source tess.
>
> 05/06/99 08:27:38 [trapd]   1. () [Microsoft][ODBC Driver Manager] Data
> source name not found and no default driver specified
>
> 05/06/99 08:27:38 [trapd] trapd.exe: ODBC database setup failed. Trapd
> will
> continue, but will
>
> log events in \usr\ov\log\trapd.log only.
> 05/06/99 08:27:41 [nvcold] Initialization complete.
> 05/06/99 08:27:42 [netmon] The ODBC data source Snmpcollect_ds does not
> seem
> to be configured correctly in the registry.
>
> 05/06/99 08:27:42 [netmon] (ConnectToODBC) Couldn't connect to data source
> snmpcollect_ds.  Exiting snmpodbc.
>
> 05/06/99 08:27:42 [netmon]   1. [Microsoft][ODBC Driver Manager] Data
> source
> name not found and no default driver specified
>
> 05/06/99 08:27:42 [snmpcollect] snmpcollect starting up
>
> 05/06/99 08:27:42 [snmpcollect] snmpcollect about to spin thread
>
> 05/06/99 08:27:42 [ovstart] Done
> 05/06/99 08:27:42 [snmpcollect] Output storage mode: flat files
>
> 05/06/99 09:53:02 [nmpolling] Failed to connect to netmon's shared memory
> segment; error: The system cannot find the file specified.
>
> 05/06/99 09:53:25 [ovstatus] Done
>
> ODBC looks like the culprit but why? I have had to reinstall NT for
> another
> reason and the problem is still there. I have tried installing the ODBC
> drivers from the netview cd - still no go. I don't want to use ODBC
> anyway.
> How can I get netmon to start up? Am I doing (or missing) something daft?
>
> TIA
>
> Dave