Now I am really confused.
I thought you said (1) that you had a lot of changes in which ip addresses
were re-assigned from one object to another and that (2) you had tried to
delete those objects from the map using the GUI and this had not worked.
So people suggested you delete the entire topology and start over because
that is an easy way out.
You can delete a single object from the map and the database using the GUI.
You open the map, find the object, select it, pull down the Edit menu and
select Cut ... From all submaps. If you have more than 1 map you will
have to open each of them in turn and do the same thing. This should
delete the object from the map and from the database. You can verify this
with ovobjprint -s <hostname>. We do this all the time. In the Admin
Guide it is covered in the section called "Deleting Objects and Symbols".
Unfortunately in the opinion of many, this is a GUI operation. Since
NetView has three interconnected databases (object, topology, and map) you
have to clean them all up simultaneously, and if you have interfaces
associated, these must be removed, as well as any networks which depend on
them. Thus ipmap does the job. ovw tells him what you have selected on
the map and he reads the various databases and removes what is required.
There is no one single command to manipulate all three databases and delete
an object.
James Shanks
Tivoli (NetView for UNIX) L3 Support
Matt Ashfield <mda AT UNB DOT CA> on 05/11/99 01:35:27 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/Tivoli Systems)
Subject: Re: discovering a change in ip address??
I suppose destroying the maps wouldn't be a terrible fatality. I just
thought there had to be an easier way to delete a single object not only
fromt the maps but from the database as well.
Cheers
Matt
mda AT unb DOT ca
-----Original Message-----
From: Owens, Blaine C <bowens AT eastman DOT com>
To: NV-L AT ucsbvm.ucsb DOT edu <NV-L AT ucsbvm.ucsb DOT edu>
Date: Tuesday, May 11, 1999 2:22 PM
Subject: Re: discovering a change in ip address??
>Yes, it will. Sorry, thought you were wanting to start from scratch. On
the
>other hand it is usually not too bad even if you have done some
>customization to the maps (locations, etc.). We have done it several times
>here after major network changes.
>
>Blaine Owens
>Eastman Chemical Company
>Email - bowens AT eastman DOT com
>Phone - (423)229-3579
>Fax - (423)229-1188
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Matt Ashfield [SMTP:mda AT unb DOT ca]
>> Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 1999 12:58 PM
>> To: NV-L AT UCSBVM.ucsb DOT edu
>> Subject: Re: discovering a change in ip address??
>>
>> Won't this destroy all my maps?
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Owens, Blaine C <bowens AT eastman DOT com>
>> To: NV-L AT ucsbvm.ucsb DOT edu <NV-L AT ucsbvm.ucsb DOT edu>
>> Date: Tuesday, May 11, 1999 11:31 AM
>> Subject: Re: discovering a change in ip address??
>>
>>
>> >I see you are on AIX. You may use smit (or smitty) Communications -->
TME
>> 10
>> >NetView --> Maintain --> Clear databases --> Clear topology database
>> >(completely). Thus will shut down daemons and any EUI's until
completed.
>> >When you restart the EUI the topolgy will be rediscovered from scratch.
>> >
>> >Blaine Owens
>> >Eastman Chemical Company
>> >Email - bowens AT eastman DOT com
>> >Phone - (423)229-3579
>> >Fax - (423)229-1188
>> >
>> >> -----Original Message-----
>> >> From: Matt Ashfield [SMTP:mda AT unb DOT ca]
>> >> Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 1999 8:40 AM
>> >> To: NV-L AT UCSBVM.ucsb DOT edu
>> >> Subject: Re: discovering a change in ip address??
>> >>
>> >> Sounds about right. How do I do it?
>> >>
>> >> Matt
>> >> mda AT unb DOT ca
>> >> -----Original Message-----
>> >> From: Todd E. Lewis <telewis AT providentbankmd DOT com>
>> >> To: NV-L AT ucsbvm.ucsb DOT edu <NV-L AT ucsbvm.ucsb DOT edu>
>> >> Date: Tuesday, May 11, 1999 9:34 AM
>> >> Subject: Re: discovering a change in ip address??
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> I wonder if you may have to dump your discovery database and
>> re-discover
>> >> your network ip changes.
>> >>
>> >> >>> Matt Ashfield <mda AT UNB DOT CA> 05/11 8:21 AM >>>
>> >> Hi all,
>> >>
>> >> Recently a bunch of our servers changed ip addresses. Their new
>> addresses
>> >> are in a different subnet. These new addresses used to belong to
other
>> >> machines that were taken out of service at the same time the servers
>> >> assumed
>> >> their ip addresses. I have tried to discover the servers at the new
>> >> address,
>> >> but when I do a demand poll at the server address I get the message
>> that
>> a
>> >> node already exists in the database for that name. I've deleted the
>> >> server's
>> >> objects at their old ip address? Shouldn't that have deleted them
from
>> the
>> >> database as well?
>> >>
>> >> Any help would be appreciated!
>> >>
>> >> PS. Using Netview 5.1.1, AIX4.3.2
>> >>
>> >> Cheers
>> >>
>> >> Matt
>> >> mda AT unb DOT ca
>> >
>
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