I would say: yes

At least running "ovtopofix -A -n" twice does show the same results.
So it seems not to have updated anything.

Kind regards

Oliver Bruchhaeuser
Tivoli NetView EMEA L2 Support



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Esteemed nv-l community

NV 7.1.3 FP1 on RedHat 7.2

The man pages for ovtopofix states the following

  -n   Prints the actions taken without updating the ovtopmd or the ovwdb
       databases. When run with the -n option, ovtopofix does not require
       stopping ipmap or netmon. This option is useful for checking
database
       consistency without stopping active monitoring of the network.

My question is do you use this flag in conjunction with other flags such as
-A

Example:

      ovtopofix -A -n

Would the above command run all the tests but not update the databases?

Thanks
Alan E. Hennis
Caterpillar Inc.
Systems+Process Division
309.494.3308
hennis_alan_e AT cat DOT com