I have exactly the opposite opinion.
The SNMP agent is not as bad as it used to be (Solaris v2.8). I do agree on the
number of cores, but to be honest, thats an application programmer problem.
Code needs to be written that doesn't core. If there is a predominance for
cores under Solaris, then maybe that implies a code-writing-bias towards AIX
(not being judgemental, these things are part of code evolution, and AIX came
first).
I am responsible for the paging queue enhancement under Solaris - my APAR (yay!)
In my estimation, go with what your shop knows best. If you are a windows shop,
I would use Linux. If you are an AIX shop, I would use AIX. If you are a
solaris shop, I would use Solaris. In my mind, since you run the fine line
between sysadmin and network engineer its best to be able to leverage local
talent and so matching your operation to whats out there seems like a good
idea. I have used both AIX and Solaris, if there is a upside to one over the
other, I don't know what it would be.
-----Original Message-----
From: jshanks@us.ibm.com [mailto:jshanks@us.ibm.com]
Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 8:17 AM
To: nv-l@lists.tivoli.com
Subject: Re: [nv-l] AIX vs. Solaris
I don't know how anyone else feels, but in my view, the SEA SNMP agent on
Solaris is such an unreliable pain, and Solaris itself is such a pain to
administer, that if you have a choice, I would go with AIX. SMIT alone is
worth the price of admission, plus your SNMP operations will be more
reliable, and finally, you will probably have fewer cores. Solaris is
notoriously more picky about null pointers and empty strings. I cannot
tell you how many Solaris-only cores we've fixed as a result.
The only daemon difference I am aware of in NetView is nvpagerd. The
pager queue is in shared memory and Solaris doesn't allow us to expand it
the way AIX does, so the pager has a fixed queue size on Solaris. Not a
problem usually, but possibly so if you send a lot of pages. So the size
was made configurable with IY29166. Other than that, I am not aware of
any other underlying differences.
James Shanks
Level 3 Support for Tivoli NetView for UNIX and NT
Tivoli Software / IBM Software Group
"Wilkinson, Iain D" <iain.wilkinson@eds.com>
07/02/2002 03:09 AM
To: "'nv-l@lists.tivoli.com'" <nv-l@lists.tivoli.com>
cc:
Subject: [nv-l] AIX vs. Solaris
Folks,
In the big, wide, real world is there any difference between the of
NetView
7.1.2 on AIX to it running on Solaris?
Regards,
Iain Wilkinson
Systems Management Group
Electronic Data Systems
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