Mark,
You might want to look into the Magnum Switch Coordinator. We have just
installed it (The Magnum people are very anxious to assist) and am very
satisfied. They perform some sort of magic to be able to connect "Campus
Lans" to get to the root cause of outages immediately.
Not sure if this is what you were looking for but they are going a long
ways in the world of Network and Device monitoring and support. I expect
to see many other good things from them in the future. (And a great bunch
of guys to work with.)
Mike
Mike Walsh
****Please Note - New EMAIL Address mike.walsh@us.ing.com*********
612-342-3118
"Scherting, Mark"
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Subject: [nv-l] RE: Switch
Analyzer 1.2 (ITSA) switch limitations
02/14/2003 10:50
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Jane,
I believe that what you understand is NOT incorrect! :(
We were very interested in Switch Analyzer and installed a demo version.
When the sales reps showed up with $$$ signs in their eyes and we couldn't
see across VLANs I sent them and their disk packing. Too bad too. The rep
was kinda cute. :)
Mark Scherting
State of Montana
Information Technology Services Division
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Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2003 14:19:03 +0000
To: NetView mailing list <nv-l@lists.tivoli.com>
From: Jane Curry <jane.curry@skills-1st.co.uk>
Subject: Switch Analyzer 1.2 (ITSA) switch limitations
Message-ID: <3E411D57.6090504@skills-1st.co.uk>
I have just read the readme.txt that comes with the latest version of
Switch Analyzer, 1.2.....
Criteria for supported devices
a) Support RFC 1493 Bridge MIB, plus
- All devices connected to the switch must be in the same subnet
as the management interface of the switch
- Multiple VLANs on a switch are supported provided,
- they are in the same subnet
- "community name indexing" is not required to access
each VLANs forwarding table (for example, Cisco 1900,
3Com 1100, 3300 SuperStack). In this case the default
VLAN only is supported.
b) Layer 3 switches are only managed at the Layer 3 level.
Is this really the case??? Most of the point of creating VLANs on
switches is to support /different/ subnets. Further, I would generally
have the management interface of my switch on a separate management subnet.
If I read these criteria correctly, ITSA will only support very simple
switches.
Please, someone tell me this is wrong!
Cheers,
Jane
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