Starting the Event Handler on AIX nodes

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Technical Note

This technical note outlines the steps that are necessary to ensure that proper permissions are set on AIX 5.2 managed

nodes after their re-installation.

Setting Permissions after re-installing an AIX node

Under certain certain circumstances, HPOMfOV will throw an error message when an attempt is made to start the

Event Handler from an AIX 5.2 node. If an AIX 5.2 node icon is dragged and dropped onto the Start Event Handler

icon, a file access permission is disallowed, which prevents the operation from completing successfully. This issue

arises only when the OVOU (OpenView Operations for UNIX) agent is uninstalled and then reinstalled. When the

OVOU agent is first installed, it has full write privileges. Upon un-installation and re-installation, the /dev/null

file is re-created without full write privileges. This results in script failure when an attempt is made to redirect output

to the /dev/null file.

To resolve this issue, the /dev/null file must be manually assigned full write privileges (crw-rw-rw-) after

each OVOU agent re-installation.

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Technical Note Starting the Event Handler on AIX nodes This technical note outlines the steps that are necessary to ensure that proper permissions are set on AIX 5.2 managed nodes after their re-installation. Setting Permissions after re-installing an AIX node Under certain certain circumstances, HPOMfOV will throw an error message when an attempt is made to start the Event Handler from an AIX 5.2 node. If an AIX 5.
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