IBM Tivoli NetView V7.1.3 Fix Pack 4 Readme

Date: September 30, 2005

Name: 7.1.3-TIV-NVD-FP0004

Component: IBM Tivoli NetView Version 7.1.3

PTF Number: U804578 (UNIX) or XR23264 (Windows)

Note: Before using this information and the product it supports, read the information in the "Notices" section at the end of this document.

(C) Copyright International Business Machines Corporation 2004. All rights reserved.
US Government Users Restricted Rights - Use, duplication or disclosure restricted by GSA ADP Schedule Contract with IBM Corp.

Table of Contents

About this Fix Pack

Installation and configuration
Known defects and limitations
Documentation updates
Contacting software support
Notices
Trademarks

About this Fix Pack

This section provides general information about this Fix Pack. It is strongly recommended that you read this entire document before you install this Fix Pack.

Fix Pack contents

This Fix Pack consists of five packages, one each for RS6000 AIX, SUN SPARC Solaris, Linux Intel, Linux 390, and Microsoft Windows. You need to use the appropriate package on each platform on which an IBM Tivoli NetView native server or client has been installed.

This Fix Pack also contains a set of corrections for the NetView ETL code used by and contained within the Tivoli Data Warehouse. In order to apply the corrections to the NetView ETL code within the Tivoli Data Warehouse, see the 1.1.0.3-TIV-NVD-WEP-FP0003.readme file associated with this Fix Pack. 1.1.0.3-TIV-NVD-WEP-FP0003.exe is the executable for installing these changes.

Patches superseded by this Fix Pack

None. There are no patches superseded by this Fix Pack.

Supported operating systems

Please note that the following Windows operating systems are not supported in this release:

New in Fix Pack 04

The following items are new in IBM Tivoli NetView Fix Pack 04.

New options added to the xnmsnmpconf command

The three new options listed below have been added to xnmsnmpconf command. Note: The characters in [] are optional.

  1. xnmsnmpconf -clearn[odedb]

    Removes all entries from the SNMP configuration nodedb directory.

  2. xnmsnmpconf -clearw[ilddb]

    Removes all entries from the SNMP configuration wilddb directory.

  3. xnmsnmpconf -clearco[lldb]

    Removes all entries from the SNMP configuration colldb directory.

For AIX and Solaris, with the three new options and the previously existing "xnmsnmpconf -clearCache", this now means the SNMP configuration database can be entirely cleared out by entering the following four commands:

  1. xnmsnmpconf -clearnodedb
  2. xnmsnmpconf -clearwilddb
  3. xnmsnmpconf -clearcolldb
  4. xnmsnmpconf -clearCache

For Linux, do NOT use the new commands to clear xnmsnmpconf's databases. On Linux, using the new options causes xnmsnmpconf to fail later with a memory fault. Unfortunately, after this failure, there is no way to fix the xnmsnmpconf database other than to reinstall IBM Tivoli NetView.

For Linux, xnmsnmpconf's databases can only be cleared by using xnmsnmpconf and deleting each node one at a time.

New options added to the nvmaputil.sh command

Two new options have been added to the nvmaputil.sh script that permit managing and unmanageing networks from the command line. The format of the new options are:

nvmaputil.sh --manage-network <IP Address 1> ... <IP Address N>
nvmaputil.sh --unmanage-network <IP Address 1> ... <IP Address N>

A new netnmrc file

For UNIX, a new netnmrc file is shipped with this fix pack. Changes to netnmrc fix problems related to APAR IY71793 with correctly starting up the X Virutal Frame Buffer software.

In order to place this fix in your NetView for UNIX 7.1.3 server implementation, copy the new file from /usr/OV/newconfig/OVMIN/netnmrc to /etc/netnmrc (for AIX) or /etc/init.d/netnmrc (for other UNIX Platforms).

A new trapd.conf file

For UNIX, a new trapd.conf file is shipped with this fix pack. Changes to trapd.conf fix problems related to APAR IY57432 with sending interface lists to the Tivoli Enterprise Console on events, as well problems related to APAR IY52871 with launching the MIB browser or Sort events from Options -> Additional Actions in the Events Window in the Control Desk.

If trapd.conf in /usr/OV/conf/C (not the obsolete trapd.conf file in /usr/OV/conf) has not been customized, simply replace it with the new trapd.conf from /usr/OV/newconfig/OVSNMP-RUN. If, however, the original trapd.conf has been modified, manually merge the changes into the original file.

Note: See the New in Fix Pack 03 section for information on the Windows trapd.conf file.

Changes to trapd.conf for launching the MIB browser on Linux

As mentioned in the A new trapd.conf file section above, the new trapd.conf shipped with this fix pack fixes the problem described by APAR IY52871 with launching the MIB browser from the Events Window on Linux.

If the original trapd.conf has been modified, manually add the changes in the new trapd.conf into the original trapd.conf file. Otherwise, simply use the new trapd.conf.

The suggested method is to use xnmtrap to edit the trapd.conf file because doing so causes trapd to automatically reload it when you are finished. You must make the edit as root.

  1. Start xnmtrap from a command line: /usr/OV/bin/xnmtrap
  2. Click Configure Additional Actions.
  3. Select Browse MIB, which fills in the Configure Additional Actions for Operator panel.
  4. Change the command shown in the command box by adding a space and a quotation mark at the end. In other words, change it from this:
    /usr/OV/bin/xnmbrowser -node "`awk '{if (NR==1)print $10}'`
    to this:
    /usr/OV/bin/xnmbrowser -node "`awk '{if (NR==1)print $10}'` "
  5. Click OK at the bottom of the Configure Additional Actions for Operator panel.
  6. Click OK to exit xnmtrap.

Note that you may make this change using another editor also. Locate the line that reads:

ACTION 0 "Browse MIB" /usr/OV/bin/xnmbrowser -node "`awk '{if (NR==1)print $10}'`
and change it to this:
ACTION 0 "Browse MIB" /usr/OV/bin/xnmbrowser -node "`awk '{if (NR==1)print $10}'` "

Then save the file. Then you must either restart trapd or issue the command "/usr/OV/bin/event -e FMTCHG" to cause it to re-read the file.

Sending interface lists to the Tivoli Enterprise Console on events

APAR PJ29821 (Windows) and IY57432 (UNIX) deal with certain events failing to parse correctly when sent to the Tivoli Enterprise Console(R). The reason for this is that, in certain environments, some nodes and routers have so many interfaces (in excess of 30) that the interface list, sent as varbind 8, is too large for the Tivoli Enterprise Console to parse correctly. This problem is addressed by no longer sending the interface list to the Tivoli Enterprise Console as part of those events.

New in Fix Pack 03

The following items were new in IBM Tivoli NetView Fix Pack 03.

A modified tdwdaemon.lrf

APAR IY48379 described a problem where the ovstop command does not always stop the tdwdaemon. A modified tdwdaemon.lrf was created and included in this Fix Pack that corrects the problem. To install this correction on a UNIX platform, the tdwdaemon.lrf file in the customer installation must be replaced using the following steps:

  1. Stop the tdwdaemon (ovstop tdwdaemon).
  2. Delete the tdwdaemon entry from the ovsuf file (ovdelobj tdwdaemon.lrf).
  3. Rename the current tdwdaemon.lrf file (cp /usr/OV/lrf/tdwdaemon.lrf /usr/OV/lrf/tdwdaemon.save).
  4. Copy the new tdwdaemon.lrf on top of the original lrf file (cp /usr/OV/newconfig/IBMVA-RUN/tdwdaemon.lrf /usr/OV/lrf/tdwdaemon.lrf).
  5. Add the tdwdaemon to the ovsuf file (ovaddobj tdwdaemon.lrf).
  6. Restart the tdwdaemon (ovstart tdwdaemon).

To back this correction out, follow the above directions, replacing the two copy steps with a single copy of the saved lrf file back to its original location.

Enhanced Location Sensitive Topology functionality

The Location Sensitive Topology functionality (location.conf) has been enhanced to allow IP address ranges and wild cards in gateway entries. Ranges or wild cards may be used in any part of the gateway IP address. Wild cards may not be used in a gateway name.

The following change (which should be applied to the comment section of the location.conf file manually) describes the changes to the gateway name or address field:

The format of a gateway entry is:

<location name> <gateway name or address>

where location name is the name of the location under which this gateway should be placed, and gateway name or address is the name of the gateway or the IP address of one of its interfaces in dotted-decimal notation format. Wild cards and ranges are allowed in gateway IP addresses (meaning, 5.25-30.2.8 or 3.5.*.*). Wild cards are not allowed in gateway names (myrouter.company.com).

Example gateway entries:

SalesOffices gateway1
SalesOffices 22.84.5.2
SalesOffices 55.21.*.4
SalesOffices 22.*.*.*
SalesOffices 22.*.5-10.20-33

If a gateway matches more than one gateway entry, one entry is arbitrarily chosen. To help in resolving overlapping gateway entries, warning messages about gateway interfaces that match more than one entry are displayed in the location.log file. These are only warning messages; they do not indicate any problem with the gateway/router placement.

A modified netmon.seed file

A modified netmon.seed file for APAR IY47145 is shipped with this Fix Pack. This file documents that in order to explicitly discover a node and make it SNMP-managed there must be two entries in the netmon.seed file: one to discover the node and the second for SNMP management. This Fix Pack places the modified netmon.seed file in the /usr/OV/newconfig/IBMVA-RUN/ subdirectory on UNIX, and the \usr\ov\newconfig\netmon subdirectory on Windows.

Maximum alternate community names

By default, up to seven alternate community names can be specified in communityNames.conf file. You can modify the maximum number of alternative community names allowed by setting the environment variable MaximumCommunityNames in the netmon.conf file to a value between 0 and 100.

A new trapd.conf file

A new trapd.conf file is shipped with this Fix Pack. This trapd.conf file no longer accidentally truncates several values in the HPCIFxxx traps in the trapd.conf file for NetView for Windows. This file can be found in \usr\ov\newconfig\ovsnmp-run\trapd.conf. If you want to use this file and you have not customized \usr\ov\conf\trapd.conf, you can use it to replace the one found in \usr\ov\conf\trapd.conf. If, however, the original file has been modified, you must merge the two files.

A new JRE

APAR IY45265 included in this Fix Pack provides a JRE upgrade. This gets rid of the problem on earlier NetView V7.1.3 Fix Packs where, depending on your system configuration and level of operating system, the NetView Web Console sometimes caused a core dump after the Fix Pack was installed.

New ruleset, overridestatus_user1.rs, replaces setstatusseverity.rs

IBM Tivoli NetView for Windows users can implement the new ruleset, overridestatus_user1.rs, which replaces the broken ruleset, setstatusseverity.rs. A new document, \usr\ov\doc\Rulesets_on_Windows.readme, documents the ruleset samples for use with the correlation daemon, nvcord. setstatusseverity.rs should be deleted by the user. It will not be shipped in future releases.

Fix Pack notes

APARS corrected in this Fix Pack

The following customer-reported problems are fixed in IBM Tivoli NetView V7.1.3 by this fix pack:

APAR # Platform Description
IY53703

UNIX

The trapd daemon does not format hexadecimal data in traps as expected.
IY54434

Windows

UNIX
For complex SmartSets, the nvUtil evaluation command does not always yield the correct results, especially if the right-hand side of the rule ended with a NOT operator (for example, !(xxxx)) and had multiple && conditions.
IY54575

UNIX

On Linux, the nvcorrd daemon cores when delete [] is called for an array that was not dynamically allocated.
IY55966

UNIX

Holding the spacebar down causes ovw_binary to core in about 20 seconds.
IY56671

Windows

UNIX
Enumerations are lost from the Tivoli NetView database after running the ovstop, ovstop nvsecd, or the /etc/netnmrc command.
IY56765

UNIX

Demand poll fails on SNMP V3 for the Linux platform.
IY56873

UNIX

The netmon daemon cores after running xnmsnmpconf -clear<xx>db.
IY57388

UNIX

On Linux, rule sets have problems with nodes that do not have names.
IY57432

UNIX

Parsing failure at the Tivoli Enterprise Console server for Tivoli NetView events with big interface lists (varbind 8).
IY57468

Windows

UNIX

Turning off "Poll for Status" does not disable SnmpStatus poll, but it does disable ICMP ping.
IY57469

Windows

UNIX

When all settings from the Topology/Status Polling Configuration are turned off, explicit seed file entries are not discovered.
IY57579

UNIX

APAR IY4909 can cause performance problems during startup of the netmon daemon.
IY57626

UNIX

When sending an apm policy the apm icons turn blue.
IY57654

UNIX

The ovtopmd daemon cores when there are incomplete objects left in the database. It occurs only in rare cases.
IY58119

UNIX

Users used the SmartSet editor (collectioned) dialog to create SmartSets where the first definition was a "two word" attribute and the second definition was an IN_COLLECTION test. Creating the SmartSet was successful. However, when the user subsequently tried to modify that SmartSet using the SmartSet editor dialog, the SmartSet editor said "SmartSet cannot be correctly expressed in dialog. Text editor used instead."
IY58223

UNIX

Status updates for open topology objects stop after 15 minutes.
IY58244

Windows

UNIX
The nvdbformat command gave the wrong results with some selectrule definitions.
IY58404

Windows

UNIX
If there are problems with the first address, snmp_addr in the netmon cache should not be changed to be the second address if the second address also fails.
IY58551

UNIX

The mib2trap command does not add slotmap embedded comments into the baroc file.
IY58586

UNIX

The user brings up the SmartSet editor (collectioned) either from the native NetView console or from the command line. The user then clicks Add -> Modify and then switches the Definition type to Subnet. The user then clicks Calculate, types in an IP address and Subnet Mask, and then clicks Calculate. collectioned then cores with a Segmentation Fault.
IY58780

Windows

UNIX

Icon size in the submapexplorer is sometimes calculated incorrectly.
IY59196

Windows

UNIX
The ovtopmd daemon cores due to memory leaks.
IY59201

Windows

UNIX
The ovtopmd daemon grows in size when objects are deleted from the map.
IY59424

Windows

UNIX
Status is reported incorrectly on SnmpStatus poll whenever there is a timeout on the request.
IY60701

Windows

UNIX
The netmon daemon reports interface down events for the rest of the interfaces after encountering an "Snmp error: no such name" on one of the SNMP status requests (req = SNMPStatus).
IY60881

UNIX

Applications registered with -restart are not actually restarted.
IY60946

UNIX

High CPU usage of ovw_binary under certain conditions.
IY61174

Windows

UNIX
Error in the /usr/OV/conf/tdwdaemon.log file: "Wrong number of parameters".
IY61505

Windows

UNIX

In the submap explorer of the Web Console, the nodes displayed in the left and right panes do not always match.
IY61588

UNIX

If the entry "!@oid 0" is added to the netmon.seed file after initial discovery, non-SNMP-supported devices are deleted after the daily configuration check or demand poll.
IY61634

UNIX

The trap varbinds (nv_var1 ... nv_var<n>) are all sent to the Tivoli Enterprise Console server as long as no explicit slot mapping is configured using the xnmtrap (the trapd.conf file). As soon as a slot is defined (such as, severity), only the severity is sent. The man pages for the trapd.conf file will be updated with this information.
IY62044

UNIX

The nvcorrd man page needs to be updated to indicate that nvcorrd caches the last 100 events, not just the last 25.
IY62164

Windows

UNIX

Users are getting thousands of nonexistent segments added to their database.
IY62217

UNIX

On Solaris, if 22 or more native GUIs are opened, ovwdb starts to grow rapidly until it gets to 2 GB, then cores.
IY62939

Windows

UNIX

The data mart ETL of the Tivoli NetView Warehouse Enablement Pack is failing in steps anm_m05_s010_metric and in step anm_m05_s020_fact with FOREIGN KEY errors. The problem is that some nodes are not being added to the ANM.D_L3NODES table.
IY63336

Windows

UNIX

The mib2trap command makes the addtrap command silent, which suppresses warning messages that users should see.
IY63370

Windows

UNIX

In the NetView Web Console, the Open Map table is unnecessarily opened for only maps whose name is not default.
IY63655

UNIX

Periodic ovw_binary cores when pinging nodes.
IY63686

Windows

UNIX

When a new object that belongs to a SmartSet is discovered while the SmartSet is open on the NetView console, the new object is displayed with a generic computer symbol. Closing the SmartSet and reopening it displays the proper symbol. This workaround is documented in this readme under the Known defects and limitations section.
IY64107

Windows

UNIX

*.*.*.* should be allowed as an IP address range for SNMP locking in the netmon.seed file.
IY64272

Windows

UNIX

If a user customizes a column within a column view, for example, the IP Address view on the Web Client, the column size is reset to its original size if the user changes the submap or presses the refresh button.
IY64366

UNIX

The snmpCollect Unix APAR, IY50954, allowed the user to specify IP addresses. However, name resolution was always used. Now the user has the option of not doing name resolution on the IP address.
IY64466

Windows

UNIX

A Node marginal event that is forwarded to the Tivoli Enterprise Console server contains the name of the NetView machine in the origin slot, not the name of the affected node.
IY64564

UNIX

After creating a SmartSet that contains intefaces, the interface labels in the SmartSet for newly discovered interfaces take the default topology label, rather than the ipmap label which is based on the current IP Map "How should interface labels be shown" configuration parameter.
IY65381

Windows

UNIX

The Tivoli NetView data mart ETL, step ANM_M05_S010_METRIC, fails with a foreign key error when inserting into the ANM.F_3TRS_HOUR table.
IY65723

Windows

UNIX

The readme description of using Secure Socket Layer (SSL) with the Web Console was incomplete. It does not mention the jetty.xml file.
IY66025

Windows

UNIX

The NetView Web Console event viewer rule sets need to be sorted in lexigraphical order.
IY66397

UNIX

DebuggingToolsV2 does not install on a system without the tools already installed.
IY67899

Windows

UNIX

Ping commands triggered from the NetView Web Console are not terminated on linex-based platforms.
IY67997

UNIX

The isManager field gets deleted during the recreation of the default map.
IY68884

UNIX

The ovwdbdmap command -d option adds a zero to object ID numbers greater than four characters.
IY69969

UNIX

The nvcold daemon and nvutil commands have a memory leak.
IY70256

Windows

UNIX

NetView 7.1.4 Fix Pack 03 made customer web console scripts fail.
IY70592

UNIX

The nvcold daemon cores in the inet_aton() routine on linux-based platforms.
IY70812

Windows

UNIX

Received an "ILLEGALARGUMENTEXCEPTION" when unmanaging an administratively-down interface using the nvmaputil.sh script.
IY71793

UNIX

The netnmrc script does not always correctly handle the check for the vfb process.
IY72414

Windows

UNIX

Ability to manage and unmanage network objects by the nvmaputil.sh script needs to be documented.
PJ29741

Windows

UNIX

After clearing and restoring tables in the TWH_MART and rerunning the the NetView ETLs, historical data is missing.
PJ29821

Windows

Events with an iflist slot larger than 512 characters gets a PARSING_FAILED error in the Tivoli Event Console.
PJ29910

Windows

UNIX

An error occurred when attempting to install the NetView ETLs after installing DB2 Fix Pack 11.
PJ29983

Windows

UNIX

A rule set queries a SmartSet and causes an "NVCOLLECTION API not initialized" error.
PJ30038

Windows

Using a custom filter in tess and the Tivoli NetView for Windows event browser, the browser window disappears after a while, with this text shown in the nv.log file: [tess] OnTimer exception at requery with hstmt:0. (-1) State:S1000,Native:-1045,Origin: Microsoft ODBC Microsoft Access Driver. Not a valid bookmark.
PJ30107

Windows

The netviewd daemon on the Windows platform always uses the "default" map.
PJ30155

Windows

After getting an "ndbm_store write0 FAILED" or "ndbm_store split FAILED" error message in the nv.log, the log starts filling up with lots of other failure messages.
PJ30197

Windows

UNIX

There is a color inconsistency between the left and right panes of the NetView Web Console submap explorer window.
PJ30208

Windows

The nvdbexport command is not correctly handling null fields in the data.
PJ30239

Windows

Incorrect time being show on the axis of the SnmpCollect graph window.
PJ30257

Windows

Error of "ndbm_store write0 FAILED" for the object database found in the NetView log file.
PJ30411 Windows
UNIX
Need to remove "IBM Confidential" wording in shipped files.
PJ30425

Windows

The hyperlinks in the NetView 7.1.4 Fix Pack 3 ReadMe file do not work in a Windows Environment.
PJ30563

Windows

Duplicate lines printed in demand output due to unmanaged interfaces.

The following customer-reported problems were fixed in IBM Tivoli NetView V7.1.3 by Fix Pack 3:

APAR # Platform Description
IY49659

UNIX

On AIX 5.1 platforms, commands launched by ovactiond are not killed when the wait time is exceeded.
IY50486

Windows

UNIX

The IBM Tivoli NetView DB2 Availability database has duplicate records (see IY53390 and IY55671).
IY50954

UNIX

snmpcollect does not collect for IP addresses if the IP address is resolvable to a hostname.
IY50954A

UNIX

IY50954 Follow-on for Linux
IY50990

Windows

UNIX

netmon does not wait polling intervals after restart.
IY51064

Windows

UNIX

The QUERY DATABASE FIELD NODE does not work for interface selection.
IY51125

Windows

UNIX

Wildcards in the netmon seed file are not working when specifying the SNMP status polling token
IY51162

UNIX

Slot values have long names and they are being truncated to 15 characters when it is saved.
IY51398

Windows

UNIX

nvdbformat has slow processing.
IY51516

Windows

UNIX

nvrsedit does not display a pop-up error when it can not handle a ruleset.
IY51641

UNIX

nvserverd coredumps due to its buffer being too small to properly format a very large trap.
IY51778

Windows

UNIX

Update documentation on the use of ranges in the netmon seed file.
IY51844

Windows

UNIX

Rediscovery of routers does not work.
IY52086

UNIX

netmon does not send a retry poll when the initial poll fail if retries is equal to one.
IY52227

UNIX

Added support for acknowledgement of Layer2 marginal status.
IY52320

UNIX

The SNMP configuration look up routine suddenly returns NetView's default value instead of the customer's setting in Global Default.
IY52341

Windows

UNIX

ipmap cores when it gets back objects with unexpected submap types. ipmap was fixed to simply log an error message and ignore the corrupt object.
IY52351

Windows

UNIX

Solves the problem pertaining to ovesmd making DNS request for networks and network segment that was not completely solved by IY47892.
IY52394

Windows

UNIX

nvcorrd cores in the function, SETSTATEDNODE, with SIGNAL 11
IY52758

UNIX

xnmgraph ends with a plotting error or calculates the wrong Y-AXIS values
IY52773

Windows

UNIX

netmon cores with a SIGNAL 6 every 10 minutes.
IY52820

UNIX

trapd cores daily.
IY52871

UNIX

NetView's events application additional actions of browse mib and sorting events all fail with shared library load errors
IY53038

UNIX

The NetView shell script is missing a line around line position 130
IY53188

Windows

UNIX

Document the Maximum Alternate Community Names variable defined in netmon.conf file
IY53244

UNIX

Executing nvgethost requesting the usage, gives garbage mixed in with the actual usage.
IY53271

Windows

UNIX

trapd dies while toggling tracing or logging.
IY53390

Windows

UNIX

NetView 7.1.3 ETL1 inserting avail data into TWH_CDW resulted in duplication of node (comp_id) and measurement values pairs.
IY53400

UNIX

xnmloadmib2 and xnmbrowser2 cannot run if NetView security is enabled. No Security Registration Files exist.
IY53530

UNIX

Documents how to control the nvsecd log files.
IY53554

UNIX

The mibtable command loops while getting status tables from the MLM MIBs.
IY53580

UNIX

APM data collection is returning the same value over and over again.
IY53666

UNIX

trapd dies with SIGNAL 13.
IY53704

UNIX

There are problems with set state nodes in nvrsEdit.
IY53727

Windows

UNIX

Customers' ipmap on several interfaces are not showing the correct symbol.
IY53780

UNIX

netmon accepts unwanted IP addresses and pings them again and again.
IY53804

Windows

UNIX

nvdbformat cores after applying Fix Pack 2.
IY54371

Windows

UNIX

Repeating interface unreachable events with RFI enabled.
IY54590

UNIX

ovtopofix should delete empty networks.
IY54644

Windows

UNIX

Web Client hanging
IY54964

Windows

UNIX

IY50990 causes problems in big networks.
IY55025

UNIX

Application default files still contain IBM850 fonts.
IY55219

Windows

UNIX

netmon cores on SOLARIS if DEMANDPOLL and PING STATUS POLL hit at the same time.
IY55256

UNIX

nvsecd cores when launching nvsec_admin if subdirectories exist in /usr/OV/security/C/Domains/*.
IY55354

UNIX

HSRP interface gets deleted and recreated every minute
IY55671

Windows

UNIX

tdwdaemon adding multiple records to the Availability database for the same status event because of the way netmon is generating events.
IY55803

UNIX

Attempting to display NetView's online books/help resulted in path not found error messages on AIX 5.2 boxes without NetScape, but with Mozilla, in the case where NetView, but not Mozilla was running.
IY55831

UNIX

Spurious ovwdb hang during communications with ovspmd
IY56095

UNIX

Two "NODE UNMANAGED" traps for one UNMANAGE action.
IY56323

UNIX

How do we prevent creating availData files.
IY56338

Windows

UNIX

netmon is not resolving names in the netmon seed file (netmon.seed) that start with a digit.
IY56534

UNIX

the new -R option for ovtopofix should also work individually.
IY56522

UNIX

netcheck's TCP check displays an incorrect error message on Linux.
IY56637

Windows

UNIX

"netmon -a 160" does not dump the value of the TDWAVAILABILITY
IY56958

Windows

UNIX

Eliminate major memory leak in nvcold triggered by running nvUtil evaluate commands.
PJ29258

UNIX

NetView for Windows 7.1.3, TME based tecad_nv6k.exe TEC adapter dies when it receives events to be forwarded to a TEC Server
PJ29495

Windows

setstatusseverity.rs ruleset is broken.
PJ29503

Windows

UNIX

--#EDIT_USING query returns zero rows
PJ29517

Windows

nvcord exchanges $A value incorrectly for an event which passed an activate ruleset.
PJ29522

Windows

UNIX

API call "OVwFieldNameToFieldId" fails if NetView is recycled and the client application is not.
PJ29525

Windows

NetView Windows 2000 user created backgrounds did not work properly. The customer configured the Submap Background with two different bitmap files and caused the background to disappear. This problem only occurs for customer bitmap files.
PJ29580

Windows

The user was collecting data and tried to use the "Filter by" Time selection in the Object Properties screen. When the user selected the "Filter by" option, the data window did not display any data what so ever.
PJ29586

Windows

UNIX

nvdbformat/nvdbimport can not GET/SET fields with commas.
PJ29588

Windows

UNIX

NV713 WEP, ETL2, steps 1 and 2 can log excessive amounts of truncation warnings causing large logs and reduced performance.
PJ29597

Windows

UNIX

NetView 7.1.3 WEP step "anm_m05_s010_metric" fails because of duplicate nodes in ANM.STAGE_DIV_OUTAGES table.
PJ29619

Windows

UNIX

For the NetView 7.1.3 WEP, step 2 "anm_m05_s020_fact.db2", the header of this file has the name of the sql file for step 1.
PJ29644

Windows

Windows trapd gets an exception on a null IP address from MS Trap Service.
PJ29651

Windows

UNIX

NetView 7.1.3 WEP step "anm_m05_s010_metric" failing to insert destination data because of "string data right truncation."
PJ29653

Windows

UNIX

Missing historical data for the reports showing percent outage for both month and yearly reports.
PJ29654

Windows

UNIX

NetView avail ETL2 is not calculating availability accurately in all cases. This results in unusual reports such as negative % outages.
PJ29666

Windows

snmpcollect.exe repeats snmpget requests when the number of objects to collect exceeds 16.
PJ29726

Windows

UNIX

Restrict SNMP status polling to discovered interfaces.
PJ29734

Windows

UNIX

xnmgraph.stat output file limits Line field to 20 characters.
PJ29741

Windows

UNIX

After clearing/resetting the ANM tables in the TWH_MART and re-running the NetView ETL2, historical availability data is missing.

The following customer-reported problems were fixed in IBM Tivoli NetView V7.1.3 by Fix Pack 2:

APAR # Platform Description
IY33891

UNIX

NetView for AIX 7.1.2 has an ovw_binary core when monitoring SNMP errors on a Cisco Switch.
IY35244

UNIX

The snmpwalk command needs to handle larger sub-identifiers than the current limit of 0X7FFFFFFF.
IY35759

Windows

UNIX
The nvcold daemon loops if a SmartSet contains more than four definitions.
IY35809

Windows

UNIX
The netmon daemon does not handle discovery of COMPAQ remote insight boards (RIB).
IY37415

UNIX

The telnet menu item in the Administer menu on the NetView for AIX 7.1.3 GUI fails on AIX V5.
IY37722

UNIX

The NetView migration scripts attempt to compress NetView databases that are already compressed.
IY38222

UNIX

The ovw_binary application cores when a read-only map is refreshed after closing the NavTree window.
IY38312

Windows

UNIX
The quicktest critical command displays UP interfaces.
IY38339

Windows

The NetView Web Console application is hanging with an empty submap explorer window.
IY38681

UNIX

The add connection menu item in the edit menu does not work in NetView V6 or V7.
IY38709

UNIX

The netmon daemon is incorrectly resolving SNMP community strings
IY38794

Windows

UNIX
Need to remove explicit options for database compression since non-compression database format is obsolete.
IY38831

Windows

Need to remove unnecessary double slashes when the NetView web event browser executes the rectrap application on UNIX.
IY38836

Windows

The progress meter in the NetView web security console is confusing and does not report progress consistently.
IY38924

Windows

UNIX
An HSRP interface may be assigned to the IP forwarding workstation if it is discovered earlier than the router that actually owns the interface.
IY38987

Windows

UNIX
The ipmap application cores while ipmap is trying to add a new serial interface in a serial segment.
IY39085

UNIX

Need to document how customers can return to the previous TEC classes after migration to NetView 7.1.2.
IY39721

UNIX

The nvserverd daemon ADAPTER_HOST slot ="UNKNOWN" if hostname is a fully-qualified domain name.
IY39832

Windows

UNIX
A non-unique NetView IFNAME (VARBIND 8) slot breaks the NetView.RLS in TEC.
IY39859

UNIX

Incorrect community name being used to poll devices.
IY39944

Windows

UNIX
The ovw application cores after migration from NetView 6.0.2 to NetView 7.1.3.
IY40164

UNIX

Unmanaging all child objects of an object on the map leaves its own status unchanged.
IY40202

Windows

UNIX
The collection editor no longer allows a SmartSet to be defined based on another SmartSet rule.
IY40255

Windows

UNIX
The netmon daemon adds garbage to the ifalias value.
IY40257

Windows

UNIX
The netmon daemon cores and exits on a signal 6.
IY40327

Windows

UNIX
Unmanaging a location leaves a nested location managed if both are siblings in the same SmartSet.
IY40359

Windows

UNIX
The ipmap application may take up to two days to synchronize.
IY40422

UNIX

The nvevents application does not find rulesets located in a subdirectory.
IY40575

Windows

UNIX
NetView for Solaris 7.1.3 netmon cores after auto-deleting a node.
IY40807

Windows

Nodes disappearing from the right side of the explorer view in SmartSets on NetView Web Console.
IY40837

UNIX

The ipmap application cores when a network name is the same as a location and the /etc/networks file is used.
IY41078

Windows

Document Internet Explorer system requirements for use with NetView Web Console.
IY41085

Windows

UNIX
ISDN status monitoring doesn't work on CISCO routers due to the organization of MIB data.
IY41227

Windows

The hostname field in the logon dialogue for the NetView Web Console should trim white space.
IY41306

UNIX

Need to log whether netviewd starts with read/only or read/write map.
IY41423

Windows

UNIX
The mib2trap application cored when reading the Brocade.mib file.
IY41553

UNIX

Incomplete category list in the Events Attribute node in the ruleset editor.
IY41608

UNIX

The dispsub man pages and xnmtrap trap description for dispsub is incorrect.
IY41640

Windows

UNIX
The ipmap application is placing routers into wrong locations.
IY41984

UNIX

The SNMP configuration lookup routines return the hard coded defaults for some nodes.
IY42228

Windows

UNIX
Bogus trace message being written to the netmon.trace file.
IY42241

Windows

UNIX
Objects loaded into NetView via the loadhosts command have incorrect SNMP addresses.
IY42341

UNIX

The xnmsnmpconfig application is not setting the SNMP parameters correctly on some nodes.
IY42394

UNIX

NetView for Linux 7.1.3 not discovering nodes via cdpcache.
IY42407

Windows

UNIX
The netcheck application does not use the value given for the snmptries option to perform a SNMP request.
IY42541

Windows

UNIX
Multiple interface down events generated for HSRP virtual interface.
IY42757

Windows

The nvmaputil.sh command is unable to delete an object that contains a space in its name.
IY42765

UNIX

Fix Pack readme describes deleting Fix Pack directory, but succeeding fixes that prereq the Fix Pack won't install afterwards.
IY42835

Windows

The maptreeserver java process hangs when the hidden symbol callback receives a NULL pointer.
IY42836

Windows

UNIX
NetView not updating the SNMP address in the object database when a device's IP address is reconfigured.
IY42893

UNIX

The ovw_binary executable cores if a second map is opened and a SmartSet is displayed in the original map.
IY43169

Windows

UNIX
HSRP interface is discovered as a lone device after fix for IY38709.
IY43210

Windows

UNIX
The TEDW Integration Pack for NetView v1.1.0 Read Me does not state the TEDW requirements in a distributed installation for the NetView ETLs.
IY43406

Windows

UNIX
Router remains marginal although the only down interface is deleted from the router, and the remaining interfaces are up.
IY43435

Windows

The NetView WEB Console Secure Socket Layer (SSL) configuration was corrupted after a Fix Pack installation.
IY43441

Windows

UNIX
The location.conf file will not handle any range that contains a 0 in an octet other than the last one.
IY43722

UNIX

The nvcorrd daemon tracing does not work on Linux when the "nvcdebug -d all" command is given.
IY43803

UNIX

Data from MIB Table not being reported correctly.
IY43838

UNIX

Start of the netmon daemon causes modprobe error on ZLinux.
IY44034

UNIX

The snmpcollect daemon cores with signal 11 when collecting SYSUPTIME data.
IY44072

Windows

UNIX
Events are not reaching TEC if the node is not in the NetView database.
IY44081

Windows

The nvsniffer daemon is changing field to TRUE for a device that no longer has the "service" for which the field was originally created.
IY44097

Windows

UNIX
Interfaces disappear if set to 0.0.0.0 by the WINDOWS operating system.
IY44258

Windows

Switch view of NetView WEB Console doesn't always work on the Red Hat Linux operating system.
IY44481

UNIX

Soft-linked directories within /usr/OV can confuse serversetup commands.
IY44501

UNIX

NetView complains about invalid SNMP V2 trap
IY45049

UNIX

An ADMINDOWN interface is propagated upward as critical rather than as "User1".
IY45164

Windows

Deadlock condition found between the nvcold and ovwdb daemons.
IY45265

UNIX

NetView's java cores after installing NetView 7.1.3
IY45385

Windows

NetView snmpColFiles data files allows maximum of 500 entries.
IY45510

Windows

Need to add more information to a NetView WEB Console error message.
IY46551

Windows

Some of the nodes are missing on the topology view of NetView Web Console.
IY46570

Windows

UNIX
The ovw_binary application cores after installation of fix IY42893 in certain cases.
IY46752

UNIX

The nvgethost application is not using the /etc/hosts file on the Linux and ZLinux platforms.
IY46849

Windows

UNIX
SmartSets with condition IN_SUBNET may have incomplete contents.
IY46921

UNIX

The netmon daemon on LINUX is using the wrong port as the MLM trap destination.
IY47144

Windows

The AGENT-CAPABILITIES construct in a MIB is not being recognized in java SNMPV2 mibloader code.
IY47145

Windows

UNIX
Documentation request to explicitly state requirements on the entries in the netmon seed file to discover and SNMP manage nodes. (See the entry for this APAR in the Product Notes section below)
IY47206

UNIX

Multiple invalid trap messages being generated from one TCP packet on port 162.
IY47528

Windows

UNIX
Interfaces with AD flag are not pingable from the NetView WEB Console.
IY47701

Windows

UNIX
Confusing netmon trace message: "Null address on all interfaces".
IY47819

Windows

UNIX
The ovtopmd daemon cores with a signal 11 on NetView V6.0.3 with the roll up fix.
IY47892

Windows

UNIX
The ovesmd daemon is making DNS requests on networks and network segments, unnecessarily degrading performance of the DNS server.
IY48011

UNIX

The nvserverd daemon does not send events to TEC if it is stopped/restarted while the TEC server is down.
IY48203

Windows

UNIX
Don't add secondary interface to HSRP interface if its the same MAC address.
IY48213

Windows

UNIX
Routers containing 800 plus interfaces cannot be discovered without "locking up".
IY48330

UNIX

The nvserverd daemon cores with signal 11 on ZLinux (390) if configured to send events to TEC.
IY48379

Windows

UNIX
The "ovstop nvsecd" command does not stop the tdw daemon (See Product Notes below to implement this correction).
IY48447

Windows

Error in help message panel for object status for specific traps.
IY48532

UNIX

The nvserverd daemon cores with a buffer overflow.
IY48533

UNIX

The nvsecd daemon cores with a buffer overflow.
IY48536

UNIX

The nvauth program cores with a buffer overflow.
IY48537

UNIX

The ovwdb daemon cores with a buffer overflow.
IY48538

UNIX

The ovtopmd daemon cores with a buffer overflow.
IY48539

UNIX

The nvcorrd daemon cores with a buffer overflow.
IY48540

UNIX

The actionsvr daemon cores with a buffer overflow.
IY48541

UNIX

The nvcold daemon cores with a buffer overflow.
IY48542

UNIX

The trapd daemon cores with a buffer overflow.
IY48698

Windows

UNIX
Location containers are not appearing and being populated when a new map is created and opened.
IY48831

UNIX

Netmon stops processing the MLM seed file if it is not able to resolve a hostname.
IY49032

UNIX

On Solaris, Volume Group terminology in serversetup backup selective data does not apply and is confusing. The references to Volume Group terminology were removed from all platforms, except AIX.
IY49090

UNIX

The order of the SNMP requests made during discovery needs to be modified to insure that the system MIB is queried first.
IY49162

UNIX

The hover function on the WEB Console does not display the selection name.
IY49405

UNIX

CNAT data is not migrated from earlier versions of NetView V7.1.x to NetView V7.1.3.
IY49428

Windows

UNIX
The nvdbformat application "TopM Interface List" is always prepended by a carriage return.
IY49532

Windows

UNIX
The nvdbformat application does not complete and gives incorrect output.
IY49546

UNIX

The printtool application cores on Tivoli NetView V7.1.3 on Linux.
IY49787

UNIX

NetView 7.1.3 ovw_binary core.
IY49953

UNIX

The nvauth executable will core with a segmentation fault when bad data is given.
IY49954

UNIX

An overflow condition occurs on the command line parameters of the nvauth executable.
IY49955

UNIX

The nvauth executable cores when the password command line argument is longer than expected.
IY49975

UNIX

The ipmap executable never ends synchronization and cores when GLOBAL ACKNOWLEDGE is enabled.
IY49985

UNIX

The pmd daemon cores when its port is scanned by third party software.
IY50013

UNIX

The nvlockd daemon cores when its port is scanned by third party software.
IY50196

Windows

UNIX
Request for additional alternative community names.
IY50265

UNIX

The nvcorrd daemon cores when bad data is written to the nvcorrd socket.
IY50265

UNIX

The actionsvr daemon cores when bad data is written to its socket.
IY50394

Windows

UNIX
The IPMAP application cores after migrating from NetView 7.1.2 to NetView 7.1.3.
IY50461

Windows

UNIX
Provide support in location.conf for wildcard IP Addresses for routers.
IY50464

Windows

UNIX
The netmon daemon is discovering several devices and setting them as unmanaged even though configured to manage newly-discovered nodes.
IY50523

UNIX

Remove outdated information regarding community string from the NetView for UNIX Administrator's Guide (V7).
IY50702

Windows

UNIX
An ITSA-managed switch may not have the correct symbol status shown in ipmap.
IY51002

UNIX

Correct command description "ATCTL V INFO" in Tivoli NetView for UNIX 7.1.3. Release Notes.
IY51181

UNIX

In NetView 7.1.3 FP1, the right scrollbar becomes non-functional in the seed file editor.
IY51316

UNIX

URLs used in NetView Web Console from a PC being terminated at the first "&" character.
PJ28875

Windows

The nvsniffer daemon randomly hangs.
PJ28933

UNIX

The online help for the SNMPV2 command is no longer valid for NetView V7.1
PJ28962

Windows

The trapd daemon hangs on invalid input to the trap port (162).
PJ28984

Windows

The nvpage command will not send a page unless the -d flag is set on the nvpagerd daemon.
PJ28992

Windows

UNIX
The nvdbimport and nvdbformat applications do not work correctly after Fix Pack is installed.
PJ29082

Windows

The nvsnmptrap application with empty AGENT-ADDR doesn't work as documented.
PJ29093

Windows

UNIX
Context menu 'selectionrule' broken when clicking between nodes on same subset with different capabilities.
PJ29105

Windows

Customer is getting authentification traps even though the community string is correctly set.
PJ29166

Windows

User-added connections are barely visible in NetView Web Console.
PJ29167

Windows

100% CPU usage on NetView NT Kanji server when trap containing double-byte characters received from Kanji-based Solaris or Linux box.
PJ29168

Windows

Traps messages with double-byte characters are not being translated into correct Japanese.
PJ29170

Windows

The "Time Up" and "Time Down" data being displayed by the uptimer application is incorrect.
PJ29185

Windows

The trapfrwd daemon fails when a large number of traps are to be forwarded.
PJ29186

Windows

The trapd daemon cores due to bad data received from MS Trap Service.
PJ29196

Windows

We need to better document the lack of SNMP V2 support in NetView for Windows.
PJ29202

Windows

All Java servlet containers are vulnerable to cross-site tracing.
PJ29256

Windows

The snmpcollect daemon defers collections for an hour for no apparent reason.
PJ29257

Windows

Use of the delete key on objects does not correctly delete objects from submaps and object database.
PJ29263

Windows

The netmon daemon crashes when a HP ETHERTWIST Hub is in the seed file.
PJ29283

Windows

The trapfwd daemon exits when logging off NetView server.
PJ29287

Windows

NetView V7.1.3 Fix Pack 1 fails to install correctly on native NetViewNT client.
PJ29291

Windows

UNIX
The netmon daemon cores when new node discovery is turned on and hostnames are excluded in the seed file.
PJ29321

Windows

The trapd daemon cores when traps containing null fields are placed into the ODBC.
PJ29329

Windows

A link that is down and acknowledged remains the same color (dark green) when it is unacknowledged rather than turning red.
PJ29332

Windows

UNIX
Interface found after rest of router interfaces may have wrong mechanism used (SNMP vs ICMP) to ping it.
PJ29342

Windows

NetView for Windows snmpcollect tracing grows huge even though tracing is turned off.
PJ29351

Windows

Enterprise specific traps for snmpcollect not accurate nor detailed enough.
PJ29368

Windows

Help screen for NetView 7.1.3 windows is not consistent with the actual panel.
PJ29410

Windows

New dynamic menu items are grayed out.
PJ29416

Windows

The hostname field is being left blank when forwarding events to TEC.
PJ29421

Windows

UNIX
The ovobjprint command is not displaying all information in large databases.
PJ29460

Windows

Issue with icon selection name and label when netmon discovers a router whose first interface is not in DNS.
PJ29481

Windows

Node status in SmartSet may be incorrect when node comes back up.

The following customer-reported problems were fixed in IBM Tivoli NetView V7.1.3 Fix Pack 1:

APAR #

Platform

Description

IY17478

UNIX

A customer reported that the sample program found in the /usr/OV/prg_samples/xmp/ems directory doesn't work: this turned out to be due to the use of a new compiler; the build process for the EMS library was modified to correct the problem.

IY20189

UNIX

When setting zoom on a background picture and then resizing the screen, only part of the picture is displayed, but no scroll bar is provided to see the rest of the picture.

IY20298

Windows

UNIX

Customer reported that the online help implies that the wordlist/wordindex function is available in several ruleset nodes, but was only able to find it in the "event attribute" node. The wordlist/wordindex function was previously available on the "Event Attribute", "Event Threshold", "Pass-On-Match", and "Reset-On-Match" nodes, and has been added to the "Set Global Variable", "Query Global Variable", "Set Database Field", and "Query Database Field" nodes.

IY27513

Windows

UNIX

Customer requested that the SNMP V2 MIB Browser application be able to view a draft MIB. The V2 MIB Browser was modified to display both the standard iso.org.dod.internet MIBs and other MIBs.

IY27989

UNIX

There are some circumstances where the reset-on-match block in a ruleset does not appear to work as expected. The manner in which a customer should expect to see this function work was documented, and the information has been added to the "Documentation" section of this readme file.

IY29211

Windows

UNIX

When using the gtmd daemon, new objects are positioned correctly when using the NetView GUI on the server, but are not positioned correctly when viewed from the NetView GUI on a native client console.

IY29427

UNIX

The snmptrap application cores when loading the MIB database. This was the result of a timing issue, in which snmptrap attempted to read the MIB database at the same time the MIB loader is trying to write out a new database. This problem was resolved by setting up file locking to keep snmptrap from attempting to read the database at the time a new database is being written.

IY29859

Windows

UNIX

The status of icons of non-IP submaps doesn't always match the color of the same submap minimized in the lower part of the screen (e.g. Navigation History).

IY30214

UNIX

Some routers are being discovered with incorrect interfaces that do not exist on the device.

IY31008

UNIX

Customer reported that the APM filter Throttle Setting fields "arm" and "unarm" have limits (256 bytes) that are not defined anywhere. A recommended documentation change is described in the "Documentation Changes" section below.

IY31226

Windows

UNIX

The ipmap menu action "OpenSubMap" does not work. This action is not supported directly, so the action "SubMapOpen" was removed from the ipmap registration file.

IY31370

UNIX

The collection editor application has problems with hyphens in SmartSet names. This turned out to be due to the parsing mechanism used in the collection editor, and was corrected.

IY32247

UNIX

The MIBTable command returns an incomplete number of rows depending on the number of columns requested.

IY32303

UNIX

The document icon was incomplete for some NetView internal events. The trapd.conf was modified and will be available in all future releases. If customers wish to upgrade their current trapd.conf files, a new trapd.conf file can be found in /usr/OV/newconfig/OVSNMP-RUN/trapd.conf, and the nvaddtrapdconf script found in /usr/OV/bin can be used to update their existing trapd.conf file. Please note, however, that nvaddtrapdconf will also update many traps to use the TEC_ITS_BASE event class for TEC and add new slot mappings, so users who have not done that migration yet should NOT use nvaddtrapdconf in this way. Instead, they will have to change their trapd.conf files manually using xnmtrap.

IY32322

UNIX

The nvcorrd daemon cores while issuing "nvcdebug -N" when a custom trap with a large amount of text in a trap variable is stored in a threshold node. This resulted in a buffer overrun building the label, which was corrected.

IY32742

UNIX

SmartSet data is not collected for nodes whose SmartSet selection name is not the primary hostname in DNS.

IY32971

UNIX

The snmpwalk application cores on Solaris in specific MIB-trees.

IY32992

UNIX

The netmon daemon cores due to netmon incorrectly trying to add an interface that has already been discovered and is simply in an "admin down" state.

IY33087

UNIX

Non-Global acknowledged objects not shown correctly in global-mode opened GUIs.

IY33098

Windows

UNIX

Memory leaks reported in the nvcorrd daemon in the override and pass-on-match functions. A significant (200 byte) overlay was found and corrected in the override node code.

IY33525

UNIX

The netviewd daemon cores while running the NVHotBackUp command.

IY33632

Linux

The nvrsEdit application on Linux stops (window closes, no core written) when dragging a node outside the boundaries of the window.

IY34042

Windows

UNIX

The ipmap application is not setting a label on an interface to the IP address as requested (user-preferred format) when interface is deleted and re-added. Code was added to check node type in these circumstances and call a different routine to get the correct label.

IY34045

Windows

UNIX

When using more than five different rule sets with the web event browser, a warning popup appears that continues reappearing when the "OK" button is pressed. The code was modified to stop the thread when an error occurs.

IY34057

UNIX

Request for clarification on type of installation to use with NetView for UNIX V7.1 and higher. The statement has been placed in the "Product Notes" section of this document.

IY34096

UNIX

Starting the read-write map from the Tivoli Desktop results in read-only map if netviewd is running the read/write map. This was due to the command option used by the Tivoli Desktop to start the map being incorrect. The command option was modified to resolve the problem.

IY34201

UNIX

Hyphens are not allowed in the trapd log maintenance script name when providing it through the smit and setup interfaces. This was due to the parsing methods used, which assumed a hyphen would be used only to preface a command line option. The code was modified to remove this assumption.

IY34202

Linux

Placing a ruleset in the ESE.automation file and restarting actionsvr results in one instance of actionsvr running with more than 80% of the CPU. Neither the complexity of the ruleset nor the amount of traps on the system impacts the high CPU rate.

IY34506

Windows

UNIX

Accessing the NetView and Jetty log files using a browser does not require (or ask for) a userid/password. Customer did use the default security realms.

IY34602

Windows

UNIX

The netmon daemon is hanging on spinning SNMP agents.

IY34654

UNIX

Cannot add a device to Linux versions of NetView with an IP address containing a zero as one of the octets (e.g.172.16.0.20).

IY34683

Windows

UNIX

The netmon daemon stops with a "Unable to synchronize node Layer 2" message.

IY34852

UNIX

NetView V7.1 is changing the permissions on the directories to 777 every time it is stopped/restarted, even though the permissions on the directories are adequate. The code was modified to set the permissions only on subdirectory creation.

IY34900

UNIX

After distributing security information from the security panel and rerunning nvsec_admin, the nvsecd daemon goes down and needs to be restarted.

IY34906

Solaris

The ovtopmd daemon and the collmap application fail with a signal 6 on Solaris.

IY34993

Windows

UNIX

Release notes need to document requirements around the scope feature of the NetView Web Console. The information has been placed in the "Documentation Changes" section of this document.

IY35035

Windows

UNIX

The xnmbrowser application sets the IP address variables incorrectly.

IY35180

Windows

UNIX

Uncollapsed network must go through the location placement code.

IY35183

Windows

UNIX

Managing a router can leave router interfaces unmanaged.

IY35241

Windows

UNIX

ISDN Interfaces were mistakenly deleted during demandpoll.

IY35575

Windows

UNIX

Unable to delete a location symbol copy.

IY35761

UNIX

The mib2trap baroc file still refers to Nvserverd_Event. A product note has been added below describing the resolution of this issue.

IY35771

Windows

UNIX

The netmon daemon is not picking up the MAC address from ARP cache when interface is not on include list.

IY35773

UNIX

The addtrap command creates duplicate trap names when long trap names are truncated.

IY35869

Solaris

The rectrap application cores on Solaris when Enterprise Name is null.

IY35928

UNIX

The trapd daemon is dropping the last two octets from the enterprise when receiving a SNMP V2 trap.

IY36026

Windows

UNIX

The ovwdb daemon is leaking 100 Mb of memory daily.

IY36041

UNIX

The ovwdb cache overflow is being incorrectly calculated, resulting in a performance hit in the ovwdb daemon.

IY36055

UNIX

Map compression via "nvTurboDatabase speed" corrupts portions of the NetView database.

IY36080

Solaris

The nvsec_admin command cores on Solaris. This was due to a null pointer being encountered when a directory does not exist.

IY36089

Windows

UNIX

The nvdbformat command cores on AIX.

IY36139

UNIX

The command "ovw -copymap NewMapName" only produces an error message that the command requires a valid map name

IY36408

Solaris

The nvserverd daemon cores on startup on Solaris 8.

IY36660

Windows

UNIX

Initial discovery creates incomplete unnumbered link interfaces (Selection Name "Interface:0").

IY36849

UNIX

The actionsvr daemon has problems with double quotes in trap variables if additionallegaltrapcharacters is set to disable.

IY36954

UNIX

Creating a SmartSet using IP Status = Normal on a large Database (90K+) will cause ovw_binary to core.

IY37017

Windows

UNIX

The nvdbimport command cores when a field has a value greater than 256 bytes.

IY37033

Windows

UNIX

Manage Objects menu item is grayed out for interfaces.

IY37208

UNIX

The snmpCollect daemon doesn't start if a value of "0,000000" exists in the snmpcol.conf file.

IY37272

UNIX

The NetView Web Console lost connection while showing a large SmartSet. This was due to the code not having time to perform garbage collection on a local reference and resulted in a memory leak. Code was added to insure the local reference will be properly deleted.

IY37316

Windows
UNIX

Change to propagation of Unreachable status (from ignore to Propagate Marginal) undesirable in some instances. To allow customers a choice in the method used to propagate the Unreachable status, an environment variable was added that users could set to tell ovw to revert back to the original propagation rule (ignore). For more information, see the "Product Notes" section below.

IY37339

UNIX

SmartSet use in SNMP configuration causes tremendous performance hit in netmon daemon fixups.

IY37526

UNIX

An invalid selection Name was encountered when using loadhosts. To correct this, a unique ID will be added behind the selection name of node when adding the node by using loadhosts.

IY37534

UNIX

SmartSet error in NetView for AIX 7.1.3.

IY37680

Solaris

The mgragentd daemon on Solaris is spawning a process that becomes defunct and is not picked up and cleaned out. The code surrounding the SIGCLD signal was modified to correctly handle this situation. Additional steps may be taken by Solaris users to insure this doesn't happen; see the section regarding the /etc/snmp/conf/mgragentd.rsrc file in the "Product Notes" section below.

IY37763

UNIX

Setting history file in ksh environment can cause NetView installation to fail. A note has been added in the Product Notes section below.

IY37770

UNIX

NetView assigns only either DNS names or IP addresses to TEC slots. A note has been added to the Product Notes section below for this APAR.

PJ28115

Windows

Customer is getting NetViewNT objects that become managed/unmanaged or unmanaged/managed at random.

PJ28717

UNIX

Closing submap with snapshot open stops the submap from being re-displayed, and results in an error that the map is already open.

PJ28735

UNIX

The /usr/OV/registration/C/NetViewWebApp.reg file is appending a slash to the URL passed to this process, which causes the command to fail.

PJ28749

UNIX

Operator can access xnmloadmib even though the option "XNMLoadMIB Application" has been deselected.

PJ28835

Windows

UNIX

An ipmap core (Dr. Watson) when trying to start the map.

PJ28852

Solaris

SMConvert process fails on Solaris if it tries to process more than 256 files.

PJ28858

Windows

TECConfig.bat hangs at the smartsetutil command.

PJ28859

Windows

NetView For Windows User's Guide should state that nvauth needs to be run to use the shift-in/out option.

PJ28919

Windows

NetViewNT creates multiple service icons on the map after a remote node's name changes.

Installation and configuration

Prerequisites

In order to install IBM Tivoli NetView V7.1.3 Fix Pack 4 on a system, you must meet the following prerequisites:

Installation instructions

To perform the actual installation of the package, perform the following steps:

  1. Based upon whether the Web Console has been customized, users of the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol either need to:

  2. If you are installing the Fix Pack on a NetView for UNIX client, ensure that the client is disconnected from the NetView Server by completing the following:

    1. Run the Client Setup application.
    2. Click Configure -> Remove Server.
    3. Enter the NetView server name in the Server Hostname field.
    4. Click Apply.

  3. Open a new window, copy the package into a local subdirectory on the operating system on which the Fix Pack is to be installed, and change directory to that subdirectory.

    Prior to copying the package, ensure that the space available in this subdirectory is larger than the space required for installation of the IBM Tivoli NetView 7.1.3 Fix Pack 04 on this operating system.

  4. Extract the installation script by doing one of the following:

  5. Execute the installation script:

    In the event that you encounter any other errors during the installation (regardless if the installation process itself reports success), complete the following:

    1. Run the backout script (ignoring any errors).
    2. Correct any problems reported during the installation.
    3. Reboot the computer (on Windows).
    4. Restart the installation from the beginning.

  6. Restart the NetView daemons by either rebooting the computer, using the netview command, executing the netnmrc script on UNIX, or clicking on the NetView icon on Windows.

    If the NetView installation is using a SQL database on Windows, restart the SQL server before you restart the NetView daemons.

  7. Reinstall any NetView Web Console installations from the upgraded native NetView Server installation. This can be downloaded from the following URL after the NetView server has been upgraded:

    	http//<NetViewServer>:8080/download
    	

    For the Web Console on Windows, the following files contain the Fix Pack 04 updates. Either one can be used.

    	nvwc_thin.zip    (thin Web Console for Windows)
    	nvwcinstall.exe  (self extracting installation)
       

    For the Web Console on UNIX, the following file contains the Fix Pack 04 updates:

       nvwc_thin.tar    (thin Web Console for Unix)
       

    Please note that when upgrading a NetView Web Console from a NetView 7.1.3 Fix Pack 04 UNIX server, the thin version of the NetView Web Console package should be used. The full version of the NetView Web Console does not contain the Fix Pack updates. After the Fix Pack has been installed on a NetView server, the thin package must be applied on top of the full package whenever the full package is installed.

  8. After Fix Pack installation, users must run the Web Console Security Console before using the Web Console, itself, since some of the XML properties values are changed during Fix Pack installation

  9. If you applied this Fix Pack to a NetView client installation, use the Client Setup application to reconnect the client to the appropriate NetView server.

  10. Customers wishing to resume the use of the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol either need to (1) turn on SSL via the NetView serversetup application, or (2) replace the saved copy of web.xml to the /usr/OV/www/webapps/netview/WEB-INF directory (on UNIX) or \usr\ov\www\webapps\netview\WEB-INF (on Windows).

Backout instructions

As a part of the Fix Pack installation, a copy of each file that is replaced during the installation is saved in the /usr/OV/service/V713/FixPack4 on UNIX or the \usr\ov\service\V713\FixPack4 on Windows subdirectory. If you want, you may uninstall the Fix Pack by running the backout script contained in that directory in place of steps 3-5 of the installation instructions above, and the system will return to the state that it was in prior to the Fix Pack installation.

Note: The backout script must be run from the \usr\ov\service\V713\FixPack4 Windows subdirectory.

Any NetView fixes installed on the system after the Fix Pack is installed must be backed out prior to backing out the Fix Pack.

Known defects and limitations

Documentation updates

Contacting software support

If you have a problem with any Tivoli product, refer to the following IBM Software Support Web site: http://www.ibm.com/software/sysmgmt/products/support

If you want to contact software support, see the IBM Software Support Guide at the following Web site: http://techsupport.services.ibm.com/guides/handbook.html

The guide provides information about how to contact IBM Software Support, depending on the severity of your problem, and the following information:

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