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RE: Nvcorrd error checking

2001-12-14 12:33:32
Subject: RE: Nvcorrd error checking
From: Jorge Jiles <Jorge.Jiles AT ualberta DOT ca>
To: nv-l AT lists.tivoli DOT com
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 10:33:32 -0700
Yes, the rulesets are identical and No, I'm not forwarding to TEC.
At 11:38 AM 12/14/2001 -0500, you wrote:
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> If not, all bets are off. 
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> James Shanks
> for Tivoli NetView for UNIX and NT
> Tivoli Software / IBM Software Group
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>Sent by: owner-nv-l AT tkg DOT com 12/14/2001 10:50 AM 
>Please respond to IBM NetView Discussion 
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>        RE: [NV-L] Nvcorrd error checking 
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>I have seen the same problem in my system. Netview 7.1 on Solaris 8. What
> is really weird is that at times I also get the message that nvserverd is
> not running when according to ovstatus and logs is working OK. The Only way
> to get going the events (and the scripts called by rulesets) is by
> stop/start nvcorrd, and nvserverd. More than once I had to stopped all the
> daemons and restart them. If I find any explanation for this, I let you
know.
> I don't think the rulesets are the problems as the same ones are running in
> a production environment AIX, Netview 6.02 and they work properly.
> 
> At 01:55 PM 12/14/2001 +1100, you wrote:
>>Thanks for the tip James, I will look into it. 
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>>We are running 24X7 for some boxes, so I am thinking of some sort of
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>>>> script to check
>>touch time of file)
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>>How are Netview experts check their daemons out there? Thanks!
>>
>>Regards,
>>
>>Jack
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: James Shanks [mailto:jshanks AT us.ibm DOT com] 
>>Sent: Friday, 14 December 2001 2:21 p.m.
>>To: IBM NetView Discussion
>>Subject: Re: [NV-L] Nvcorrd error checking
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>>Jack -
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>> nvcorrd writes to an alog and a blog in
>>  nvcorrd always starts in the
>>alog, writes a 1000 lines, switches to blog, then writes another 1000, and
>> And when there is an action to be run he hands that off to
>>actionsvr, who also has a pair of logs, nvaction.alog and blog, that
>>  If you still don't see anything, then you can turn on
>>"" There are man pages on all
>>this stuff, as well as lengthy discussions in the Admin Guide about how it
>>works.
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>>   There
>>"" does not mean that the daemon is working.
>>It is a static condition which reflects how it was built, not whether it is
>> A well-behaved daemon goes down
>>"" stays up even after the
>>others go away.
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>>James Shanks
>> for Tivoli NetView for UNIX and NT
>>Tivoli Software / IBM Software Group
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>>Hello List,
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>>I am having a problem with nvcorrd daemon. Problem as follows:
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>>I have a NV rule to execute a script upon receiving a trap.
>>I checked the trapd.log for the trap, it is there, but the script did not
>>execute.
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>>ovstatus shows nvcorrd (and all the daemons) are RUNNING and well behaved.
>>Another symptom I see is the control desktop is not updating (through exceed
>>and Linux console as well). After I ovstop and ovstart, the script is
>>executing again.
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>>I have DM profile to check for daemon up, and scripts to do ovstatus |grep
>>RUNNING and ovstatus |grep OVs_WELL_BEHAVED. But both of these checking
>>mechanism are NOT picking up the nvcorrd is not working as it is supposed to
>>(because it still thinks it is RUNNING and well behaved)
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>>How can I check that nvcorrd is REALLY running? Some sort of heartbeat using
>>ruleset maybe?
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>>regards,
>>
>>Jack.
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> Jorge A Jiles
> Network Analyst
>& Network Services
> University of Alberta
> Edmonton, Alberta
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Jorge A Jiles
Network Analyst
Computing & Network Services
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta
Canada


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