It is difficult to tell just exactly what your problem is for your 
description  -- there's not enough detail about exactly what you are 
doing.
But the only place you can seriously affect trap formatting is in 
trapd.conf.   And your options there are explained in the man page for 
that.
Basically, there is no additional formatting for fields. 

But I have not heard of trapd truncating variables before.

So is the problem that the variable is truncated in the event window or in 
your script? 
If in your script, how are you passing the variables?
When the variable contains more than one word you must enclose it within 
quotation marks, as for example
        /usr/OV/bin/myscipt  $2 "$3"  $6 


James Shanks
Level 3 Support  for Tivoli NetView for UNIX and NT
Tivoli Software / IBM Software Group




"DiIulio, Daniel" <Daniel.DiIulio AT DigitalNet DOT com>
03/05/2003 08:14 AM

 
        To:     <nv-l AT lists.tivoli DOT com>
        cc: 
        Subject:        [nv-l] How to control the amount of characters allowed 
in an event field



Hello all,
 
I'm looking to customize the amount of characters allowed within the 
various fields of a Netview Event.  Is there a configuration file I can 
edit that will allow me to do that?
 
I'm experiencing a problem where I'm executing a script (via automatic 
action) and passing three variables.  $2 contains a message text string (5 
words approximately).  When the event occurs, the trigger works fine, the 
event populates the event list, but the message text is being truncated, 
making the event unusable.  Any ideas as to where I can begin to look?
 
Thanks,
 
Dan
 




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