I don't know what is wrong (not my area) but the signal 11 means that
nvcold died on a seg fault and there is probably a core file in
/usr/OV/PD/cores/nvcold  which you could contact Support about.  Given the
problem description I wouldn't hesitate to make it a Sev 1.   My only
suggestion is that you could use nvUtil or colmaint to save off the
smartset/collection rules so you can rebuild the smartsets later, and then
delete them using the tools as well (if you can).  If you come up with no
smartsets that should avoid the problem and then you can rebuild them.  The
world seems to be divided on which of those utilities is the better so you
will want to check the man page for nvUtil, and run colmaint -? (colmaint
may not be enabled in your system as it has been deprecated -- if not just
run "chmod +x /usr/OV/bin/colmaint " first) and examine the functions of
each.  Smartset defs are kept in the object database and no where else.
You can even find them with ovobjprint if you look hard enough. but there
is no change file.

Sorry to her about your problem.  Good luck.

James Shanks
Team Leader, Level 3 Support
 Tivoli NetView for UNIX and NT



Clarence Hart <rti1clh AT ismd.ups DOT com> on 11/09/2000 12:33:56 PM

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Subject:  [NV-L] nvcold and C5d wont start :(




System INFO :  Solaris 2.6 - Netview 6.0 - Tivoli 3.6.2

All,
     Hey yesterday I deleted the default snmp collection groups
     and created a few SmartSets.  After looking through the snmpCol.trace
     file I noticed that datacollects were failing for a few hosts.
     Funny thing because the snmpwalk command was working fine.
     ??What tha??
     Since I was befuddled I decided
     to use the Microsoft approach and do a reboot since the box had been
     running for 79days. :)

     Now I get this message in my snmpCol.trace file:
------------------------------------------------
Thu Nov 09 10:21:29 2000 : snmpCollect (pid 4720) starting.
        Sun SPARC Sun Solaris 2.5 version built Dec 16 1999 11:29:56
        Network_Manager_s _tpp_ver
Thu Nov 09 10:21:29 2000 : Could not open connection with nvCollection
daemon.
        SmartSets will not be resolved.
Thu Nov 09 10:21:29 2000 : Initializing for data collection...

Thu Nov 09 10:21:29 2000 :

                UPDATE REQUIRED

Thu Nov 09 10:21:29 2000 : Null resolve on SmartSet Baystacks
Thu Nov 09 10:21:29 2000 : Null resolve on SmartSet ForeSystems
Thu Nov 09 10:21:29 2000 : Null resolve on SmartSet Atlantec5
...
------------------------------------------------

And  # ovstatus reports
------------------------------------------------
object manager name: nvcold
 behavior:            OVs_WELL_BEHAVED
 state:               NOT_RUNNING
 PID:                 -
 last message:
 exit status:         exited on signal 11
------------------------------------------------


My question is ,
Where are the changes written when you create new SmartSets?
Is it in a .txt/conf  file or locked away in the database?
Is there a command to restore the default SmartSets?

These are the only changes made:
 Deleted default snmpCollect entries,
 Added hosts to 2 SmartSets that already existed
 and Create 2 new SmartSets

 Any Ideas... Now snmpCollect wont run/collect data because all of my hosts
  are in SmartSets.

Thanks



Clarence Hart
UPS
Office: 410-560-4182
Fax:    410-560-4329
chart AT ups DOT com

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