Leslie
You will find Ciscoview does exactly this by modifying the menu files for
Netview. You can right-click on an object and call ciscoview for that object
from there.
Regards
Phil
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Leslie Clark [SMTP:lclark@US.IBM.COM]
> Sent: Wednesday, 7 April 1999 11:08
> To: NV-L@UCSBVM.ucsb.edu
> Subject: Re: TNG versus Tivoli
>
> I am re-posting my entire response because I don't want anything to be
> taken
> out of context and I am not sure I really answered your question. First, I
> believe
> that any device which has a web agent would be controllable from any
> platform,
> with or without a network management software such as Tivoli Netview. All
> you
> would need is the browser. You might want to launch that browser from a
> network map, so the question then becomes whether this is possible. Yes,
> this can be done from Netview for AIX. As an example, the IBM Nways
> Manager
> for AIX product, which runs on top of Netview, adds functions which allow
> the
> lauch of a browser to control certain IBM network devices. My conclusion
> is
> that such integration would be fairly simple for other network devices as
> well,
> using basic Netview configuration functions, in the absence of Nways.
> I believe, but cannot verify, that such integration would also be possible
> on
> the Netview for NT platform as well.
>
> I wanted to clarify this, because it was unclear to me whether you were
> asking
> about platforms for Netview or platforms for Nways. I think you are NOT
> asking
> about Nways because you did not mention IBM networking devices
> specifically.
> I only used that as an example of a case in which this is done.
>
> Launching applications for a device on the Netview map is usually involves
> creating a registration file and placing it in the proper directory. It
> can
> be
> passed the name of the selected node to be used in the execution of the
> command.
> I believe this functionality is the same on all versions of Netview.
>
> Is anyone else using this functionality?
> -- Leslie Clark
>
>
> Dear Sir,
>
> thank you for your answer and for your help.
> >Our Nways management applications on Netview for AIX allow you to
> >click on pictures of the device and launch the browser and get to the
> part
> >of the agent that controls that part of the device. So if the device
> >contains a web server, the web browser could in theory be anywhere.
>
> This is exactly what I wanted to know. Is it true only for the AIX version
> or for all the versions.
>
> Regards.
>
> Y. Dahmane, Senior Software Engineer
>
> Original answer:
> ==========================================================================
> =
> ==
> Maybe you are talking about something completely different, but here are
> some
> words I have heard:
>
> Netview for NT 5.1 provides integrated suppport for WBEM (Web-Based
> Enterprise Management) technology. This is mostly Microsoft stuff, I
> think.
> But Netview for NT can discover wbem-enabled nodes and collect and
> store information about them.
>
> A number of the IBM networking devices include in their agents the ability
> to provide information and accept configuration commands via web
> browsers. For that sort of thing, it should not matter where the web
> browser is, only that it support the correct levels of java or html or
> whatever.
> Our Nways management applications on Netview for AIX allow you to
> click on pictures of the device and launch the browser and get to the part
> of the agent that controls that part of the device. So if the device
> contains
> a web server, the web browser could in theory be anywhere.
>
> Anybody else?
>
> Cordially,
>
> Leslie A. Clark
> IBM Global Services - Systems Mgmt & Networking
>
>
> original question:
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a question.
> Is it possible to run a Web browser from Tivoli TME or Unicenter TNG (or
> any
> other SNMP console) to control a particular device on the net that support
> a
> Web browser application?
> If somebody can help me out?
>
> Thank you for your help.
>
> Youcef Dahmane, Software Engineer
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