James:

Sorry, I meant to continue my previous message that had the files listed, 
but you guessed correctly that I want to delete the data files in 
/usr/OV/databases/snmpCollect.

Oddly, even though I "Suspended" the ifOutUcastPkts in xnmcollect and 
clicked "OK", it goes back to "Collecting" when I went back into 
xnmcollect. So I think I need to follow your suggestion below to stop 
xnmcollect permanently since I am only using Netview to receive traps and 
forward them to TEC.

Thanks again for your help.

Regards,

Justin Eagleson
Enterprise Systems Management, JPMorganChase
office: 614-213-9017
pager: 877-864-2056
cell: 614-226-1148



Justin Eagleson

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Deleting these files?  What files exactly?  Are you talking about removing 
the collections from the snmpCol.conf file using the xnmcollect GUI with 
the "Delete" button?   
That you can do, but there is no need if they are suspended, and who 
knows, you might want to collect some data with snmpCollect some day.  The 
suspended collections could act as templates or examples for what you 
might really want to do. 
I would not delete snmpCol.conf since that controls snmpCollect, and if he 
is running, then he needs that file.   

Did you want to delete the data that snmpCollect already collected? That's 
stored in the database under /usr/OV/databases/snmpCollect.  You can 
delete all the entries under that directory if you like, though I would 
stop snmpCollect first (ovstop snmpCollect).  If you want to format the 
data and see what it looks like before you delete it, see the man page on 
the snmpColdump command. 

If you are afraid that someone else will resume these data collections, or 
you just don't want snmpCollect to be running in your system because you 
never use him, you could always fix it so that snmpCollect is never even 
started.  You would deregister him like this: 
(1) ovstop snmpCollect 
(2) ovdelobj /usr/OV/lrf/snmpCol.lrf 

To add him back 
(1) ovaddobj  /usr/OV/lrf/snmpCol.lrf 
(2) ovstart 

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


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Thanks James - I will do that. Are there any negative side-effects from 
just deleting these files once the collections are suspended?

Regards,

Justin Eagleson
Enterprise Systems Management, JPMorganChase
office: 614-213-9017
pager: 877-864-2056
cell: 614-226-1148



Justin Eagleson

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Type in xnmcollect from the command line to start the snmpCollect 
collection editor.  Look in the first column of the display under the word 

"Status"  If you see collections say "Collecting", then select each of 
them in turn, and click the "Suspend" button to shut them off.  Then  OK 
your way out. 

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



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