Personally, I think that going to the NT version from UNIX is a very bad
idea. You cannot migrate anything. You have to completely install NetView
for Windows NT and customize it from scratch. Version 6.0.2 will run
under Windows 2000 but so what? At 30,000 objects most boxes are going to
be completely used up trying to keep up, and you lose some functionality
(most ruleset processing is not supported, for example). A lot of what
you are used to is slightly different on NT and most users find the
differences frustrating if they are used to UNIX. Much of the underlying
differences are due to differences in the OS, which are not at all alike.
NT is notoriously difficult to customize or tune.
But as both versions of NetView are shipped on the same CD, why couldn't
you find a test NT box and install the NT Version and get a feel for it
yourself before deciding? You could even do that with V5 (NT -only, not
W2K), couldn't you?
James Shanks
Team Leader, Level 3 Support
Tivoli NetView for UNIX and NT
Jorge Jiles <Jorge.Jiles@ualberta.ca>@tkg.com on 05/31/2001 01:32:52 PM
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Subject: [NV-L] Netview 6.0.2 Unix vs NT
Netview 5 on AIX 4.2.1 RS/6000 43P -240
30.000 + objects on the Database.
We need to upgrade our version of Netview to the latest 6.0.2 In order to
run the new Netview version we need to upgrade our existing hardware, as it
would not be adequate to perform at a production level. We would like to
upgrade our RS/6000 server, upgrade AIX to the latest levels, and also
Netview to version 6.0.2.
Since we need to invest on hardware, the question asked was weather we
should continue to run Netview on Unix, or we should move to a less
expensive Windows environment.
The biggest headache would be to move all the customization we have
developed over the years from Unix to a Windows NT setting. Lots of Perl,
shell (awk, sed) , C, Expect, X , etc scripts.
But what about the application it self, is there much different in
functionality between Unix and Windows?
Is the Windows version going to be supported also under Windows 2000?
Would I be able to move my native Unix db's to the Windows version?
Have any body made the switch? And how painful was? And was it worth it?
Any thing I should know before making a decision?
Thanks for any info.
Jorge A Jiles
Network Analyst
Computing & Network Services
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta
Canada
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