Re: [nv-l] Netview clients

[James Shanks <jshanks@us.ibm.com>]

John,

Using Hummingbird to emulate a UNIX X-windows display on some MS Windows is not the same thing as installing a NetView client from the NetView for Windows distribution and having it sync up with a NetView for UNIX server.   Those are two very different things.

In NetView terms, client-server refers to installing a GUI component on another box to act as a client.  What you are talking about is doing a telnet session using an X-emulator.  That you can do.  But it does not offload any cycles from the NetView server; rather it adds to them.  The native NetView client actually reduces the impact of an additional display on the server box.  

James Shanks
Level 3 Support  for Tivoli NetView for UNIX and Windows
Tivoli Software / IBM Software Group

John M Gatrell@IBMGB 09/30/2003 11:49 AM

To:        James Shanks/Raleigh/IBM@IBMUS         cc:                 From:        John M Gatrell/UK/IBM@IBMGB         Subject:        Re: [nv-l] Netview clientsLink

Client / server on Linux?  Yes, I do this with X-windows.
Either running something like Hummingbird Exceed on windows talking to Netview on Linux.
Or running 2 linux boxes, one as an X-windows front end, the other running Netview.

Is it a good idea? Well not if you think you can run on smaller machines.
The NetView box must be big in terms of memory and to some extent, cpu.

John Gatrell, B.A. Physics, CCNA
RMSC - IBM UK's Remote Managed Services Centre
Tel:  0870-010-6284 Internal 814732