Yes, AIX 4.1.5 is supported and several of my colleagues here are running it.
You can find out what I told you in the NetView manuals and Release Notes. Some
of these are available on the Tivoli support web site,
http://www.support.tivoli.com, but you have to be a registered user to get
access. From the site you have to submit your customer number on a form
electronically to get access, and if you have no other Tivoli products (V4
NetView doesn't count because it was not put out by Tivoli) you may not be able
to get in. All the doc you will need comes with the product when you order it,
so you should start there, by contacting your Tivoli/IBM marketing rep. The
support site also has an FAQ library but you have to registered for that as
well.
James Shanks
Tivoli (NetView for UNIX) L3 Support
Gurjit.Gill@cgi.ca on 10/12/99 12:05:24 PM
To: James Shanks/Tivoli Systems@Tivoli Systems
cc:
Subject: Re: 5.1.2 migration
Hi James
Just one more before I shutup.
The current version of AIX we run NV4.1 on is AIX4.1.5. Will NV5.1.2 run on thi
s version of AIX.
Is there a web site where I can get all this information.
Gurjit
SHANKS@TIVOLI.COM on 10/12/99 11:19:52 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: Gurjit Gill/CGI)
Subject: Re: Setting up test Netview Server (actually 5.1.2 migration)
You order NetView 5.1 (an entire replacement product) and NetView 5.1.2 (which
is just a big patch) from Tivoli. You only
pay for the upgrade to NetView 5.1, because you get a year's free support with
that purchase, so 5.1.2 is yours free.
Then you do a migration, which in a nutshell means that you use a script we
give you to backup your data and customization
on the box you have. Then you would deinstall NetView V4, using SMIT, but I
would do a mksysb first so that you could always
come back to this point if you need to. NetView 5.1 comes with the Tivoli
framework, which you must install prior to
installing NetView. You install that according to the Release Notes supplied,
and then use it to install NetView 5.1. When
you install NetView 5.1, it finds your backup data and merges it in with the
new NetView it installs. Then you install the
5.1.2 patch, again per the Release Notes, and now you are current.
If you want to install on a different box than where your V4 is, you can do that
instead, and you can ftp your migrated data
over to the new box, so that it will install an updated clone of your current
system if you wish. Making the backup does not
deinstall NetView V4 so you can continue to run the old one in parallel if you
like. Is this clear?
James Shanks
Tivoli (NetView for UNIX) L3 Support
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