Just out of curiosity, what does your perl script do?  I might be interested
in er, borrowing it from you -

Oliver Grant
Performance Engineering Corp.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Boyles, Gary P [SMTP:gary.p.boyles AT INTEL DOT COM]
> Sent: Monday, March 15, 1999 7:45 PM
> To:   NV-L AT UCSBVM.ucsb DOT edu
> Subject:      Automatic Action on AIX.
>
> I have an AIX system, with NetView V4.1 running.  I've run across a
> problem
> with
> the "automatic action" for interface up/down, and I'd like to know whether
> this is
> normal or not.
>
> My problem is this... I have setup automatic actions for interface-up and
> interface-down
> (I fire off a perl-program).  This seems to work fine for one interface,
> but
> if I try to run
> more than one at a time... they get processed one-at-a-time -- in
> sequence.
>
> NetView on NT V5.1 doesn't do this... if there are 15 interfaces coming
> up... it fires
> off 15 perl-scripts.
>
> My question is... is this normal, or not.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Gary Boyles