Thanks Leslie.
We are interested in the web clients, but probably 3 or 4 (admins and User
Support).
The 140 is going to be the ADSM (TSM) server (it's on a 7011 now). It's gone
forever. Network management comes behind disaster recovery.
"It shouldn't be difficult to get a new box if this one doesn't work". But I've
been waiting 2 years to get the air conditioner in my office to get fixed. ;-)
On Tue, 31 Oct 2000 12:59:35 -0500 Leslie Clark/Southfield/IBM
<lclark@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> I take it your present box performs well for you, and they want to regain
> the excess capacity, or you would not be asking. I think I would not be
> going too far out on a limb to say the less-capable box will work, if you
> are supporting only one user, occasionally two; and if I were you I would
> use the improvements in V6 to reduce your discovered databases to
> just what you are managing. That will help with the memory usage.
> Were you planning to run a large number of web clients? That might
> put you over the edge cpu-wise.
>
> It may be a little tight at startup. Will they let you try it and change
> your
> mind if it does not run well?
>
> Cordially,
>
> Leslie A. Clark
> IBM Global Services - Systems Mgmt & Networking
> Detroit
>
>
> Mearl Danner <jmdanner@samford.edu>@tkg.com on 10/31/2000 11:56:19 AM
>
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> We are presently running Netview (4.x) on a 7043-140 (332PPC) 576M RAM. We
> have
> about 4000 objects in our database, but are only managing about 200. We
> have no
> other products installed except for an Apache web server for serving
> network
> stats.
>
> The boss wants to use the 140 for another system, and has offered a
> 7043-240
> single processor (166) with the same RAM configuration for a replacement.
>
> Will the 240 handle the newest versions of Netview (5.x, 6.x)? I'm
> concerned
> about the web capabilities of the newer versions increasing the load,
> specifically about having to run Java on a less capable platform.
>
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