Well, I didn't think lighthouse customers were supposed to release that
information publicly, but as long as you have, I m surprised that you haven't
said anything about the fact that there is a brand new "universal" web client --
that you use the same one for UNIX and NT and that it is greatly enhanced.
That is the GUI direction I was hinting at before. No changes are currently
being done to the NetView clients that I am aware of.
James Shanks
Tivoli (NetView for UNIX) L3 Support
Stephan Schwalb <sschwalb@DEBIS.DE> on 09/29/99 02:46:20 AM
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/Tivoli Systems)
Subject: Re: Netview Version 6
Hi,
most of the changes for V 6.0 (formerly named V 5.2) were already presented by
some
powerpoint
presentations at the last Planet Tivoli (this year and end of last year).
New functions were (this is for unix):
- location sensitive topology (through a locations.conf - multiple hirachies)
- the choice of using snmp instead of ping for polling (in the seed file as in
the
oid_to_type)
- serial interface handling (unnumbered serial interfaces)
- improved installation verification
- supmap explorer (as already realized with NV on NT)
- auto-discovery of web-enabled devices
- migration function V5.1 - V 6.0
As we participating in the field tests for V 5.2 /V 6.0 (litehouse program) we
already
received field test 1 and could verify some of the stuff above. Based on lack of
time
we've only checked some points, but as far as I could see, snmp instead of
pinging
and submap explorer is working.
In addition we found support for multiple community names and some changes in
status
propagation.
For sure we will verify the rest, at least when receiving the 2nd fields test
(next
month) but all of the
information it is not official yet.
Hope this helps you to get a view on what we all can expect from NetView in the
near
future.
Have fun___Stephan
Chris Cowan schrieb:
> James Shanks wrote:
> >
> > Possible? Nothing is impossible if you are willing to start over and
re-design
> > code from the ground up. I didn't say it couldn't be done; I said it
probably
> > wouldn't. The Tivoli desktop, which isn't nearly as sophisticated as the
> > NetView desktop, was designed differently from the get-go. The Tivoli
desktop
> > is just a front- end for the oserv running on that box. It is the oserv on
the
> > box with the desktop which talks to the other oserv on the server. But the
> > NetView client has no daemon process to do what the oserv does. It is just
a
> > desktop and it must therefore be of the same type as the server.
>
> My real intent in posting was not to focus on the GUI, but to get some
> recon on what V6 is going to be.
> So far, all I know is all of the development is now at Cambridge, MA.
> So that smells to me like we'll get some convergence.
>
> None the less, HP OpenView does have the ability to do this. So there's
> a factor that could drive the decision.
>
> > So what did I say? I said I don't think they are going to re-design the
NetView
> > client-server. Instead I think what they will do is improve the web
interface
> > so you won't need an Xclient or a Windows client. That's the industry
direction
> > after all, not just NetView's.
> >
>
> I'm not going to comment on this existing Web interface. Regardless,
> the GUI performance would still be an issue (and probably not acceptable
> with Web/Java/JavaScript) without some significant changes.
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