Yup, I know what it means.  And it is not serious.  Are you just reading the
nettl looking for problems or are you trying to solve something?

ovtopmd is a trap receiver.  He registers for traps from trapd.  The external
(non-NetView) ones he just ignores.  He has nothing to do for them.  For NetVew
ones, he has an internal table which tells him what to do with that trap.  Many
internal (NetView) traps are just ignored too.  ovtopmd only needs those which
mean he needs to update the topology database.  All that this error means is
that he got an internal (NetView) trap that isn't in his table.  So apparently
we added a trap some time ago and did not update ovtopmd's internal table.  But
it does not affect his processing, since any new trap we added that he doesn't
know about, he doesn't need anyway.  So if we eventually update the table, it
will be to tell him to ignore it anyway. Nothing to worry about.

If you do have some problem you are trying to solve, this probably has nothing
to do with it.

James Shanks
Tivoli (NetView for UNIX and NT) L3 Support



"Hernan Dario Villegas Londono" <hvillega AT bancolombia.com DOT co> on 
04/04/2000
06:00:14 PM

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cc:    (bcc: James Shanks/Tivoli Systems)
Subject:  [NV-L] Netview Error





Hi all ,  Netview 5.1.2 , AIX 4.3.2 , H50 , 1 GB RAM.

I have seen in the nettl.LOG00 the next messages :


*******************************
  Timestamp            : Thu Mar 30 2000 17:05:44.110901
  Process ID           : 32704              Subsystem        : OVW
  User ID ( UID )      : 0                  Log Class        : ERROR
  Device ID            : -1                 Path ID          : -1
  Connection ID        : -1                 Log Instance     : 0

  Software             : /usr/OV/bin/ipmap
  Hostname             : antioquia.bancolombia
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
topoEventHandler(): topoEventDispatch() failed.  Return code = -2: Internal
error -- could not decode event.

************************************ NetView *******************************
  Timestamp            : Thu Mar 30 2000 17:07:02.632152
  Process ID           : 29664              Subsystem        : COLLECTION
  User ID ( UID )      : 203                Log Class        : ERROR
  Device ID            : -1                 Path ID          : -1
  Connection ID        : -1                 Log Instance     : 0

  Software             : /usr/OV/bin/collmap
  Hostname             : antioquia.bancolombia
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
collmap: topoEventHandler(): topoEventDispatch failed.  Return code = -2:
Internal error -- could not decode event.


Does anybody know what do these messages mean ?


Thanks,

Hernan D. Villegas



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