HP J3250M manual Starting the Manager Application, Display

Running HP Hub & Switch Management

Running HP Hub & Switch Management

Starting the Manager Application

2.Optionally, execute the /opt/OV/bin/ovstatus command to verify that the trapd, ovwdb, ovtopmd, and netmon background processes are running. If the background processes are not running, execute the /opt/OV/bin/ovstart command. If you are surprised that a back- ground process is not running, run ovstart -v, which gives you more information. The ovstart command starts the background processes. (You must be root to perform this step.)

3.If you are not running X Windows (X Windows, HP VUE or HP CDE for HP-UX systems), start it.

4.Optionally, if you want to redirect your X Windows display to a system other than the management system:

a.Set your X Windows DISPLAY variable on the HP OpenView network management system using one of the commands below. Replace hostname with the host name of the system to which you are redirecting the display.

For these shells	Use these commands
/bin/ksh or /bin/	DISPLAY=hostname:0.0
sh	export	DISPLAY
/bin/csh	setenv	DISPLAY hostname:0.0

5.Make sure that the management system has permission to display windows on hostname. If the management system does not have permis­ sion, and if the hostname is using the host-based authorization, use the xhost command to add the management system to the xhost table on the hostname system. To do so, on hostname type:

xhost + <managementsystem name>

where managementsystem name is the host name of the management system. If the hostname is using the MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 authorization, please refer to the xauth man pages to set up the

.Xauthority file.

6.Start the graphical network map (user interface) by typing:

ovw

ovw is executable by anyone.

Alternatively, you can run ovw in the background to free up the terminal window for other uses. In some cases, ovw prints error messages to standard output and standard error. To capture these messages and to

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