I still seem to miss-direct these about half the time...
Cordially,
Leslie A. Clark
IBM Global Services - Systems Mgmt & Networking
Detroit
"Scott Bursik"
<tivoliesm@hotmai To: Leslie
Clark/Southfield/IBM@IBMUS
l.com> cc:
Subject: Re: [nv-l] What does
Cisco Works Buy Me?
05/15/2002 03:54
PM
Leslie,
Thank you so much for your clear and concise answer. That is exactly what I
wanted to know!
Scott Bursik
Pepsico Business Solutions Group
scott.bursik@pbsg.com
>From: "Leslie Clark"
>To: "Scott Bursik"
>Subject: Re: [nv-l] What does Cisco Works Buy Me?
>Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 14:05:43 -0400
>
>The best thing the integration buys you is recognizable Cisco bitmaps on
>your Netview
>map. It also adds fields with more specific information about the model
>than you get
>with the Agent field set by Netview from oid_to_type and the agents list
in
>snmp_fields.
>So cosmetics and info that is somewhat useful in reports. It loads V2
mibs,
>which
>you may or may not find useful :). It does NOT add trap definitions, but
>those are
>all pretty much taken care of by the trapd.conf shipped with Netview since
>6.0.1.
>
>The other thing is the ability to lauch CW Device Manager from a node
>selected on the
>map. Personally, I do not find this to be all that exciting. It launches
>the web browser
>and points it to your CW server, just as you would manually, with the name
>of the
>node plugged in. You have to re-authenticate every time you launch it. I
>would
>rather just launch it myself once. But that's me.
>
>There is no overhead involved in having the integration on the netview
>system.
>If you launch CW from there, there is. If you launch it from the web
>client, the
>overhead is on your PC.
>
>Cordially,
>
>Leslie A. Clark
>IBM Global Services - Systems Mgmt & Networking
>Detroit
>
>
>
> "Scott Bursik"
> > l.com> cc:
> Subject: [nv-l] What does Cisco Works Buy Me?
> 05/15/2002 08:51
> AM
>
>
>
>
>
>NetView 6.0.3 AIX 4.3.3
>
>
>We are looking at what Cisco Works might be able to buy us. We are
>currently running tham as 2 seperate applications with no integration. We
>are using the NetView database to "seed" Cisco Works with a script that
>they provide that uses ovtopodump -o and some xnmsnmpconf -res commands to
>"dump" information into CW. Is the integration of CW and NetView a tight
>integration or does it just give enhancements to the user of the GUI? I
>haven't been able to find a great deal of documentation on the subject.
>Maybe thats all I need is a push int he right direction. One last
question?
>What is the overhead of the CW integration? Will I notice any performance
>differences after the integration?
>
>
>Thanks in advance!
>
>
>Scott
>
>
>
>
>Scott Bursik
>Pepsico Business Solutions Group
>scott.bursik@pbsg.com
>
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