NetView for Unix CAN be launched from the Tivoli Desktop for Windows.
However, there must still be an X-emulator running on the NT/Win95 box. The
tivoli desktop in that case may be a local gui but NetView is still an X
client. To do it:
1) Make sure an X-emulator is running on the PC
2) Create a file on the NetView server with a a line exporting the DISPLAY
back to PC.
3) In the "Start user interface" popup, enter the full path of that file in
the "File containing environment (optional)" field. The NetView for Unix
gui will come up on the PC in the X-emulator.
I think some of the confusion on this stems from the distinction between
the X-client "Tivoli Desktop" gui and the local gui of the Tivoli Desktop
for Windows and the hope that running the Tivoli Desktop for Windows
removes the requirement for NetView to have an X-emulator running on the
PC. It does not.
Scott Donohoo
Tivoli Customer Support Team (NetView for Unix)
James_Shanks@TIVOLI.COM on 10/22/98 09:37:13 AM
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Subject: Re: NV5.1/TME 10 Desktop for Windows Problem
Right, I think that is the issue here - cross-platform support. The Tivoli
Desktop for Windows will launch GUIs for Tivoli products on the NT box,
provided those apps have a local GUI. But it will not launch the NetView
GUI for a NetView running on a UNIX box. You need an X-emulator for that.
I believe (because I haven't tried it) that the Desktop for Windows can
launch the NetView for NT GUI if NetView for NT is installed on the box.
James Shanks
Tivoli (NetView for UNIX) L3 Support
Leslie Clark <lclark@US.IBM.COM> on 10/21/98 10:51:53 PM
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Subject: Re: NV5.1/TME 10 Desktop for Windows Problem
Well, Shari, we will have to review that part in the morning. I think we
launched it
from a TME 10 Desktop, but it was not the Desktop for Windows. It was a
Rumba
X-emulation session to the TMR Server (rlogin) that exported the display
and
launched a TME 10 Desktop (for Unix). From that Desktop, we launched
Netview
which is running on a Managed Node. I think.
Cordially,
Leslie Clark
IBM Global Services - Network & Systems Management - Detroit
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Subject: Re: NV5.1/TME 10 Desktop for Windows Problem
I just installed Netview 5.1 on AIX 4.3.1 (with much appreciated help
from
Leslie Clark of IBM!) We were able to bring up the Netview interface
from
the Tivoli desktop!
Shari Smallwood
Telecom Analyst/Tivoli Architect
Whirlpool Corporation
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Subject: NV5.1/TME 10 Desktop for Windows Problem
Author: Peng Goh <Peng.Goh@BANKAMERICA.COM> at Internet
Date: 10/19/98 9:57 AM
ALL:
You cannot start Netview user interface using the TME 10
Desktop for Windows. I found this out testing and Tivoli Support
confirm. Good luck with your implementation.
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