NNM is the network management (SNMP) platform of the OpenView family like
NetView is for Tivoli. But OpenView is more than 40 other products covering
e.g. performance management (OpenView Performance for systems and OV
Performance Insight for Networks), system and application fault management
(OV Operations), Internet management (OV Internet Services), change,
configuration, SLA and helpdesk management (OV Service Desk) just to mention
a few. OpenView is not a product. It's a marketing brand.
>From what I've seen of Switch Analyzer it's less than what NNM could do in
version 5 back in 97. As far as I understand it's not even graphical.
NNM ET combines the level-2 and VLAN views you see in e.g. CiscoWorks Campus
Manager with level-2 root cause detection.
I don't mean to advertise for OpenView in this forum (the OpenView Forum
mailing list is the place to ask if you want more information or simply look
at www.openview.hp.com), but I will answer technical questions based on my
experiences with OpenView as well as NetView in my work as a consultant.
Michael.
-----Original Message-----
From: netview@toddh.net [mailto:netview@toddh.net]
Sent: 19. juli 2002 21:54
To: IMHOFF,MICHAEL (HP-Denmark,ex1)
Cc: 'Eric Pobst'; nv-l@lists.tivoli.com
Subject: Re: [nv-l] NetView vs. OpenView
"IMHOFF,MICHAEL (HP-Denmark,ex1)" <michael_imhoff@hp.com> writes:
> You can't compare NetView with OpenView. OpenView is a suite of management
> tools like Tivoli.
>
> I suppose you mean that you want to compare NetView with OpenView Network
> Node Manager (NNM). They pretty much do the same job (and was original
based
> on the same code). They have moved in different direction when it comes to
> new functionality like event correlation, distributed management and web
> GUI's.
Can you elaborate on these differences?
> The only place I really see a difference is on the level two
> discovery and graphical layout. With NNM Extended Topology you'll
> get functionality you'll otherwise only find in vendor specific
> tools like CiscoWorks.
I'm curious how it compares now that Tivoli has released the IBM
Tivoli Switch Analyzer product.
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Todd H.
http://www.toddh.net/
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