Re: [nv-l] Looking for advice

["James Shanks" <jshanks@us.ibm.com>]

Good luck.  In my opinion, HP has spent no small amount of time and effort to stop using the APIs they initially wrote when NetView was cloned from OpenView (back in the Version 1 days, almost ten years ago) to prevent exactly this.   They no longer even support the direct forwarding of traps from our trapd to theirs, though you could configure NetView's trapd to forward all his traps to OpenView using udp.  But what OpenView will do with them, other than display them, is anyone's guess.  Ditto for the reverse flow.

I know for a fact that the databases are not transferable. 

You could have a NetView and an OpenView  monitoring the same devices, but other than having two separate management systems polling the same devices, I don't know what this would accomplish.

James Shanks
Level 3 Support  for Tivoli NetView for UNIX and NT
Tivoli Software / IBM Software Group

"Allison, Jason (JALLISON)" <JALLISON@arinc.com> 02/11/2002 05:09 PM

To:        "'nv-l@lists.tivoli.com'" <nv-l@lists.tivoli.com>         cc:        "Allison, Jason (JALLISON)" <JALLISON@arinc.com>         Subject:        [nv-l] Looking for advice

I know this may not be the best question, but it is an initiative I will be
working on in the near future.

Has anyone gotten Tivoli Netview and HP Openview to 'communicate' by any
means?

I know this is a very broad question, but my company uses both Netview and
Openview.  I have been asked to look into how to get them to talk to each
other if at all possible.  If they cannot communicate on the surface, I will
be looking to write an application at the socket level for communication
with respect to traps and status delivery.

All input is appreciated,

Jason Allison
Principal Engineer
ARINC Incorporated
Office:  (410) 266-2006
FAX:  (410) 573-3026


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