No one seems to be addressing this one and I'm knee deep in the NT side 
of the product.  

If all you are using is the local GUI the OVSTOP command will drop the 
GUI along with all the other daemons started by the postmaster daemon 
(OVSPMD) in NT.  I don't know what effect it will have on remote NetView 
Consoles; my customers are using the Web Client for remote access.    
My backup procedure is to use the AT facility to invoke a command at 
about three AM Monday morning (AT 3:00 /every:M 
"e:\usr\ov\bin\WeeklyBackup.bat") .  The file is:
  
    rem  WeeklyBackup.bat  
    e:\usr\ov\bin\ovstop
    e:\usr\ov\bin\ovtopofix -a
    e:\usr\ov\bin\ovmapcount -u
    xcopy /E e:\usr\OV\conf\*   e:\usr\ov\backup_data\conf
    xcopy /E e:\usr\OV\databases\*   e:\usr\ov\backup_data\databases
    e:\usr\ov\bin\ovstart
    e:\usr\ov\bin\netview  

Ovstop kills everything; ovtopofix and ovmapcount clean up the 
databases,  xcopy takes all the files which changed during the previous 
week and copies them to the backup_data directory and Ovstart kicks off 
the daemons again and NetView starts the GUI so your NetView Web Server 
has an open console to use.  

All the Web Clients should close their maps if you have the latest level 
of the Web Client (an e-fix from Tivoli).  

I hope it helps in your area.  

Bill Evans - Consultant in Systems Management .  

Karsten.Schweiger AT GECITS-EU DOT COM wrote:

>Hi all.
>Another special question about this product. For an automatical backup we
>want to use a batch file but for this we need a command or something else
>to shut down the GUI but there doesn't exist something like ovwexit. Do I
>have to stop a service on NT to shtudown the GUI or ...
>Thanks and hopefully ...
>
>Mit freundlichen Gruessen - Yours sincerely
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