Re: [nv-l] netfmt

Well, I don't have a clue what is wrong, but on Linux, it is the nettl process itself which spawns the netfmt -CF. But only one of those is spawned on my system and it stays active only so long as nettl is active. When I do a "/usr/OV/bin/nettl -stop" both nettl and the netfmt go away.

You should be able to chase ownership of the process via ps -ef. Who is | are the parents of these rogue netfmts? Your current nettl or some other long gone? What happens when or if you do nettl -stop? Once the main nettl goes away, you should be able to kill those netfmt processes with impunity, though that will not tell you why they are being created. But you can stop and restart nettl any time you wish. Normally it is just started once and keeps running until stopped. If you stop nettl and kill all the remaining netfmts, if any, and then restart nettl with nettl -start, try looking with "ps -ef |grep netfmt". How many do you see? Should be just one. Try looking again every few minutes.

Offhand I see nothing in your status that looks out of line. Where would you look for a source of the problem? Well, I'm not sure, since I've never seen anything like this before, but here's what I'd do:
(1) /usr/OV/bin/nettl -stop
(2) ps -ef | grep netfmt. kill any you find
(3) cd /usr/OV/log
(4) ls nettl* and see how many you have, just netttl.LOG00 or also nettl.LOG01
(5) for each nettl.LOG0n you have, issue
/usr/OV/bin/netfmt -f nettl.LOG0n > formatted.LOG0n
This creates ascii files you can read.
(6) Look in the formatted logs for interesting error messages
(7) Call Support with what you find.

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

Mahesh Tailor <mahesh.tailor AT network.carilion DOT com>
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Hi! Running NetView 7.1.3 fp 2 on RedHat Linux AS 2.1. I am having a problem with hundreds of netfmt -CF processes running and eventually disabling the system because of too many open files [system default open files has been set to 32K files]. How can I figure out what is causing all these processes to start? Here's my nettl status output: Logging Information: Log Filename: /usr/OV/log/nettl.LOG0x User's ID: 0 Buffer Size: 8192 Messages Dropped: 0 Messages Queued: 0 Subsystem Name: Log Class: NON_IP ERROR DISASTER DISTMAN WARNING ERROR DISASTER SECURITY WARNING ERROR DISASTER COLLECTION WARNING ERROR DISASTER SNMP ERROR DISASTER CMOT ERROR DISASTER OVE ERROR DISASTER OVC ERROR DISASTER OVW ERROR DISASTER OVD ERROR DISASTER OVS INFORMATIVE ERROR DISASTER OVCAPI ERROR DISASTER OVEXTERNAL ERROR DISASTER OVWAPI ERROR DISASTER TEST_ID_1 DISASTER TEST_ID_2 DISASTER FORMATTER DISASTER Tracing Information: Trace Filename: No Subsystems Active In addition to NetView the server also has the following running: - MySQL DB - Apache w/PHP and Perl. - Some ksh scripts that perform /usr/OV/bin/nvUtil on various smartsets once every 30-minutes. That is essentially it. Also, what does the netfmt -C option do? It is not in the man page. Thanks. Mahesh