Leslie,

Always glad for any assistance from you.  If it is alright with you, I will be 
sure to be at
my desk between 1 and 2 central time.

Mike

Leslie Clark wrote:

> Mike, let's take this offline. I'll call you.
>
> Cordially,
>
> Leslie A. Clark
> IBM Global Services - Systems Mgmt & Networking
> Detroit
>
>
>                     Mike Walsh
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>                     11/08/01 09:26
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>
> James,
>
> I do not understand it myself.  We have an identical box on our network in
> another location that is not generateing these traps.  Both boxes are
> running Netview 6.0 on solarus 2.7 OS.  The TRAPD.CONF file was customised
> by a person at another company we merged with so I am unsure of all of it's
> details.  I did search it for anything I could recognise that would cause
> this.  I am fairly new to netview so am probably overlooking the obvious.
>
> How would I go about adding this trap to prevent further problems?
>
> Mike
>
> James Shanks wrote:
>
>      I recognize the message but you'll have to tell us what it is doing in
>      /var/mail/netview.
>
>      The trap is the new global Acknowldeged  trap, though I am mystified
>      as to why you get the Unformatted trap part, because by default
>      NetView will format all his own traps whether there is an entry in
>      trapd.conf or not.   You could always add one if you wanted to format
>      the trap yourself.
>      But  what have you got set up that is sending this as a mail message?
>      You'd have to have some customization in place to do that.
>
>      What level of code and what OS are you using?  Has someone customized
>      traps in trapd to send mail?
>
>      James Shanks
>      Level 3 Support  for Tivoli NetView for UNIX and NT
>      Tivoli Software / IBM Software Group
>
>
>    Mike Walsh
>    <Mike.Walsh AT reliastar DOT com>                To:        IBM NetView
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>    11/08/2001 04:31 PM               Problems
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>
>      Hi,
>
>      My Netview server is being flooded by the following messages in the
>      /var/mail/netview file.  I cannot identify where they are comeing
>      from.
>      Does anyone out there recognise these messages and could you provide
>      some guidence in controlling this.  It is bringing my box to it's
>      knees.
>
>      Thanks,
>      Mike
>
>      From: Super-User <root>
>      Message-Id:
>      <200111081908.fA8J7oo06749 AT dsm21001.nws DOT us.americas.intranet>
>      To: netview
>      Subject: Unformatted Trap: E: NetView, e: 1.3.6.1.4.1.2.6.3.1, S:
>      50790450
>      Content-Length: 555
>
>      Trap found with no known format in trapd.conf(4)
>      Enterprise NetView (1.3.6.1.4.1.2.6.3.1) community public
>      generic trap:6 specific trap:50790450
>      Timestamp:31938 Agentaddr:dsm21001 args(5):
>      [1] private.enterprises.ibm.ibmProd.3.1.1.2.0 (Integer): 4
>      [2] private.enterprises.ibm.ibmProd.3.1.1.3.0 (OctetString): dsm21001
>      [3] private.enterprises.ibm.ibmProd.3.1.1.4.0 (OctetString): default:
>      Acknowled
>      ged 211382
>      [4] private.enterprises.ibm.ibmProd.3.1.1.5.0 (OctetString): 211382
>      [5] private.enterprises.ibm.ibmProd.3.1.1.6.0 (OctetString): openview
>
>      From root Thu Nov  8 13:03:45 2001
>      Return-Path: <root>
>      Received: (from root@localhost)
>             by dsm21001.nws.us.americas.intranet (8.10.2+Sun/8.10.2) id
>      fA8J2aj04228
>             for netview; Thu, 8 Nov 2001 13:02:36 -0600 (CST)
>      Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 13:02:36 -0600 (CST)
>      From: Super-User <root>
>      Message-Id:
>      <200111081902.fA8J2aj04228 AT dsm21001.nws DOT us.americas.intranet>
>      To: netview
>      Subject: Unformatted Trap: E: NetView, e: 1.3.6.1.4.1.2.6.3.1, S:
>      50790450
>      Content-Length: 554
>
>      Trap found with no known format in trapd.conf(4)
>      Enterprise NetView (1.3.6.1.4.1.2.6.3.1) community public
>      generic trap:6 specific trap:50790450
>      Timestamp:4263 Agentaddr:dsm21001 args(5):
>      [1] private.enterprises.ibm.ibmProd.3.1.1.2.0 (Integer): 4
>      [2] private.enterprises.ibm.ibmProd.3.1.1.3.0 (OctetString): dsm21001
>      [3] private.enterprises.ibm.ibmProd.3.1.1.4.0 (OctetString): default:
>      Acknowled
>      ged 211382
>      [4] private.enterprises.ibm.ibmProd.3.1.1.5.0 (OctetString): 211382
>      [5] private.enterprises.ibm.ibmProd.3.1.1.6.0 (OctetString): openview
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