I am just feeling out all of the options of our overseas locations and the
best way to get a map out to them. It is looking like the Java Client is the
best way, unless every location has its own map, independant of the primary
server.
Thanks James
Scott Bursik
>From: James_Shanks@TIVOLI.COM
>Reply-To: IBM NetView Discussion <nv-l@tkg.com>
>To: IBM NetView Discussion <nv-l@tkg.com>
>Subject: Re: [NV-L] NetView Client Question
>Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 15:30:59 -0400
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>No, it means the performance advantage is less than if you did not do so.
>The whole idea behind running a client is to take as much of the load off
>the NetView server, over running a telnet session from the remote box, and
>move it to the client. The biggest load is in supporting the GUI, that is
>how the NetView client was born. You take as many of the X resources used
>to display the GUI and move them to the client. But if you NFS mount the
>maps then you have that overhead -- the NFS traffic to support the single
>exported map database -- on the server, so you have less overall savings in
>memory and cpu (and network bandwidth) than if the client had only a local
>map. But you pay for that lower overhead by having a bigger administrative
>problem by having distinct maps that can get out of sync.
>
>But I thought you were not doing this for performance in the first place.
>Did that change?
>
>James Shanks
>Team Leader, Level 3 Support
> Tivoli NetView for UNIX and NT
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>"Scott Bursik" <nv_list@HOTMAIL.COM>@tkg.com on 04/09/2001 02:24:23 PM
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>Please respond to IBM NetView Discussion <nv-l@tkg.com>
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>I am using AIX 4.3.2 with NetView 6.0.2
>
>I have a question about the following line in the manula:
>
>You can NFS mount your map database if you want all your maps to
>reside on the server machine. In this case, making changes to all the
>maps is easier because they are all in one place physically. Everyone
>can use the same set of maps. However, if the map database is on
>the server, you are not offloading that memory utilization onto the
>clients.
>
>Does this mean that there is no advantage to running this type of
>configuration?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Scott Bursik
>Pepsico Business Solutions Group
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