The really "picky programmer"
in me points out the custom symbols added to the IP map are by definition IP
symbols. Symbols added to the XX map are non-IP. The object takes on its generic
identity from the system within which it exists.
On a historical note the non-IP support
was designed into the product with an eye to supporting OSI networks (OSI-map)
and a companion product using NetView was available for some years which
provided that support. The thought at the time the AIX, OS2 and Windows SNA
support was in development was of a potential to provide an SNA map but fiber
networks and IP made that unnecessary or unlikely to be profitable.
As our friend Paul points out, there is, by definition, no connection between the Generic
Topology Manager (GTM or XX maps) and the IP Manager. The IP Manager handles
IP objects on IP maps and GTM handles non-IP objects on GTM maps. The details
of the objects may be hard to distinguish but the IP manager cannot do anything
with an object on a GTM map and vise versa.
I was there when all this was under
discussion. I was working on another product for interconnection of ATT support
systems (anyone remember ATT Accumaster Integrator?) and our development team
segued into the development of the OSI network architecture support product. The
market for that product was the telephone industry. The PTTs seem to have been
the only area which went with CMIP and the OSI network model while the
commercial world went with SNMP and the IP model.
Bill Evans
Tivoli NetView
Support for DOE
301-903-0057
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nv-l@lists.us.ibm.com
[mailto:owner-nv-l@lists.us.ibm.com] On
Behalf Of REIBENSCHUH Alfred
Sent: Friday, June 25, 2004 5:32
AM
To: 'nv-l@lists.us.ibm.com'
Subject: RE: [nv-l] GTMD Trap
interface
hi!
> There is NO connection between non-ip and ip
objects, they
> are handled
> by different daemons,
different maps and different
> databases. There is no
connection and no way to make any
> connection between non-ip and
ip objects.
although that is basically true, it is not completely
correct.
if you look at the redbooks
"SG24-4515-00/GG24-4059-00", there is a way to
draw "custom symbols" on
the "ipmap".
--
fredo
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