Ah....so *unattended* mlm is simply a nt workstation/server *without*
netview, yet which executes a mlm service/background application?
Nb, the server/client explanation was a big help - it certainly explains why
our netview consoles are so sluggish. It makes more sense, in fact, to just
run the netview web client (less load) on the remote terminals...
> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Shanks [SMTP:James_Shanks@TIVOLI.COM]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 1999 9:34 AM
> To: NV-L@UCSBVM.ucsb.edu
> Subject: Re: netview 5.1 nt - mlm
>
> I am confused about what exactly you are trying to do, partly I think
> because you have confused two very different things, distributed NetView
> as provided by MLM, and the NetView client. Let me see if I can clarify
> this for you.
>
> The NetView client is just a way to offload GUI functions from one machine
> to another. The client does no polling function, and it seldom makes
> sense
> to have him in a different subnet from the server. If you do that, then
> you have all the traffic between the server and the client flowing across
> a
> router taking up a lot of network bandwidth. There are configurations
> where this is a sensible thing to do, but not many.
>
> Distributed NetView, or MLM, is just the opposite, if you will, of the
> client. Here we are offloading daemon functions, namely discovery and
> status polling, to another box. MLM machines seldom have a GUI, though
> this is now possible with NetView for NT, using the attended MLM function.
> But you would not do that with a client. Such a box would be a NetView
> server in its own right, but would forward status to another NetView
> somewhere else. The advantage of attended MLM is that yoou have a local
> GUI as well. But as this is a heavy load on the box, it is not usually
> used unless you plan to have operators on tht remote box all the time.
>
> Hope this helps a little.
>
> James Shanks
> Tivoli (NetView for UNIX) L3 Support
>
>
>
>
> OGrant <OGrant@PEC.COM> on 03/08/99 05:19:00 PM
>
> Please respond to Discussion of IBM NetView and POLYCENTER Manager on
> NetView <NV-L@UCSBVM.ucsb.edu>
>
> To: NV-L@UCSBVM.ucsb.edu
> cc: (bcc: James Shanks)
> Subject: netview 5.1 nt - mlm
>
>
>
>
>
> Hullo all - I'm trying to install netview for nt's mlm function; the
> instructions, however, are confusing, to say the least. Has anyone
> successfully installed/configured mlm in a netview 5.1/nt environment?
> Some
> of the questions we have include:
>
> - From *where* do you install nvmlmsetup.exe - the netview server or
> client?
> (Presumably the former.)
> - What modifications to the netview client do you make to enable it as a
> mlm
> - does one load a mlm mib on the client, in addition to the server?
> - What's one to do if one doesn't have a netview/unix console available
> to
> configure the mlm mib?
> - etc...
>
> Some obviously naive questions about the underlying functions of mlm, but
> the documentation hasn't helped any in clarifying the mystery. Many
> thanks.
>
>
> Oliver M. Grant
> Performance Engineering Corp.
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