HP Output Management Getting Started Guide

Technical Note

St arting the Event Handler on AIX nodes

This technic al note outline s the s teps that are neces sary to ensure that proper permis sio ns are set on AIX 5.2 managed
nodes after their re-installation.

Setting Permissions after re-installing an AIX node

Under certain certain circum st ances, 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 Sta rt Event Handler
icon, a file access permission is disa llowed, which prevents the operation from comple ting successfull y. This issue
arises only when th e OVOU (OpenView Operati ons for UNI X ) agen t 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 r e-created without full write privileges. This r esults in s cript failure when an attempt is made t o r edirect output
to the /dev/null file.

To resolve th is 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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Starting the Event Handler on AIX nodes

Setting Permissions after re-installing an AIX node

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