Just out of curiosity, why would your management pressure you to adopt
Solaris?
I've heard that the hardware is cheaper, but Solaris is harder to
administer (not just my opinion but that of several outside consultants)
unless you have been doing it for some time.
I'd say you should make the decision based upon the availability of
third-party apps (like Jeff Fitzwater suggested) and your ability to
administer it. But it is true that NetView is developed on AIX and ported
to Solaris, so there is always the possibility of some hidden problem there
that doesn't show up under our testing.
James Shanks
Tivoli (NetView for UNIX) L3 Support
Thierry Van Mol <thierry.van-mol@CIEV.VD.CH> on 02/23/99 11:16:54 AM
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Subject: Going from AIX to Solaris
Hi all,
We are currently running Netview 4.1.2 on AIX 4.1.5, with various third
party
products, like CiscoWorks 4.0.
Pressure is coming from the management to move from AIX to Solaris.
I wanted to have some comments on the difference between Netview
(5.1 of course) on AIX and Solaris. Are there difference in functionnality?
Is the AIX version more stable (is it still developped first on AIX and
then
ported to the other platforms?).
Regarding CiscoWorks in the past, and CW2000 now, AIX releases have
always been behind the Solaris ones. So on this side I think the Solaris
move
would be not a bad idea.
Also, is there a hope to take my Netview databases from AIX to Solaris, or
should I have to start map building all over again (I am aware there is
also
here a version problem: I have currently 4.1 databases, and if I install a
Solaris
version it would be 5.1).
Many thanks in advance for all your input,
Thierry
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