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Well,
the decision needed to be made two months ago when funds were available.
At that time it was going to cost us around $75k for a second Netview license
for Solaris with 8k interfaces. We purchased Openview NNM with unlimited
nodes for $14k... we made the choice because of available resources at the
time.
-----Original Message----- Hmmm....That is surprising, with the new license
structure NetView should have been an extremely inexpensive solution for you. If
you purchase TEC (at a very small minimum), you get unlimited use of NetView for
no additional cost. And of course you then have the option of using TEC as well
for additional event management capabilities.From: pgeiger@us.ibm.com [mailto:pgeiger@us.ibm.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 6:28 AM To: DSullinger@dot.state.az.us Cc: nv-l@lists.tivoli.com Subject: RE: [nv-l] NetView vs. OpenView Pam Pam Geiger Tivoli Performance and Availability Evangelist pgeiger@us.ibm.com 919-224-1665, T/L 687-1665  DSullinger@dot.state.az.us
Well, I hate to chime in on this because it probably won't be very popular with the group, but... We currently are running Netview, but we just purchased OpenView... Reason? Cost... As simple as that. We needed an extra license for Netview and the cost was based on how many interfaces we wanted to manage. After reviewing this, it was to cost prohibitive. Openview had a enterprise license that covered as many nodes, interfaces and devices we needed to manage. After 3 years of use, I'm somewhat comfortable with Netview, but it really came down to available resources... Openview was less than half the cost, we really didn't have a choice. They both worked about the same... It was a hard decision to make, but we just couldn't afford to lay out what Netview wanted for an additional license during these economic times. -----Original Message----- From: netview@toddh.net [mailto:netview@toddh.net] Sent: Friday, July 19, 2002 12:54 PM 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. -- Todd H. http://www.toddh.net/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: nv-l-unsubscribe@lists.tivoli.com For additional commands, e-mail: nv-l-help@lists.tivoli.com *NOTE* This is not an Offical Tivoli Support forum. If you need immediate assistance from Tivoli please call the IBM Tivoli Software Group help line at 1-800-TIVOLI8(848-6548) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: nv-l-unsubscribe@lists.tivoli.com For additional commands, e-mail: nv-l-help@lists.tivoli.com *NOTE* This is not an Offical Tivoli Support forum. If you need immediate assistance from Tivoli please call the IBM Tivoli Software Group help line at 1-800-TIVOLI8(848-6548) |
