Dear Leslie,
thank's for your help.
For the application, you are talking about a registration file.
Is this file generic to a family of devices or to a specific device that has
to be indicated?
is the IP address of the device passed in parameter?
Thank's.
-Youcef
> -----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
>
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