To get a complete and authoritative answer, you would have to put this question 
to TEC, not to NetView.  All the code
responsible for establishing, sending, caching, and re-sending events, is part 
of the EIF libraries, which TEC provides, that
NetView merely links.  We do a "tec_send" and after that we do not know what 
happens to what we sent, and we don't care,  as
long as we get back a good return code.

For what it is worth, my understanding was that if the fixed port fails, then 
the TEC adapter code would see if there were a
portmapper running, and if so, whether it knew about a port for the TEC server. 
 The assumption is that you want to events to
get to TEC so it does its best to get them there.  So I would say, and this is 
just my opinion, that this working as
designed.

You may not be happy with this result, but I hardly think anyone would be 
willing to take an APAR for a situation which was
caused by user errors on both ends of the TEC session.  In any case, it would 
have to be TEC which would fix it, because, as
I said, this code is not part of NetView.

By the way, there is a list,  tme10 AT list.isis2000 DOT com, where other 
Tivoli products, notably TEC, are discussed.   I do not
subscribe, but I am told that you can by sending to majordomo AT list.isis2000 
DOT com

 subscribe tme10 <your email address>

Perhaps other TEC users can comment on how they deal with this.


James Shanks
Tivoli (NetView for UNIX) L3 Support



Dieter Zavelberg <dieter.zavelberg AT DATEV DOT DE> on 10/12/99 02:51:21 AM

Please respond to Discussion of IBM NetView and POLYCENTER Manager on NetView 
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To:   NV-L AT UCSBVM.UCSB DOT EDU
cc:    (bcc: James Shanks/Tivoli Systems)
Subject:  forwarding NV traps as T/EC events - one more try




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Von:    Dieter Zavelberg [SMTP:dieter.zavelberg AT datev DOT de]
Gesendet am:    Mittwoch, 6. Oktober 1999 17:56
An:     'NV-L AT UCSBVM.UCSB DOT EDU'
Betreff:        forwarding NV traps as T/EC events



Hi all,

I'm going to setup a TME10 Framework Environment including NV trap/event
forwarding to a T/EC.
Because I have to forward the events through a firewall a fixed ServerPort
is defined in /usr/OV/conf/tecint.conf - and it works ok.

But:
Accidently the configuration file on the T/EC server was overwritten by its
default file so that the server after it's restart assumed a dynamic port
handling via portmapper.
Inbetween nvserved on the NV box has been restarted too (configured with
that fixed port) so that I expected that all events now have to go to
  /etc/Tivoli/tec/cache  because nvserverd shouldn't be able to establish a
connection to the destination port ...
But the cache file was empty and all the events went to the T/EC via a
dynamic allocated port.

Does anybody know sth. about that behaivor? Do I misunderstand how this
fixed port stuff works?
Is it a bug with an APAR for?

I'm running AIX 4.2.1-ML3 and NV 5.1 .


TIA
Dieter Zavelberg