RE: [NV-L] Switch Analyzer How good is it?

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

Actually, that's how it will work anyway.


 I just attended a department meeting
this week in which it was announced that Tivoli General Manager, Al Zollar,
had approved a plan to preserve every existing customer's investment in
NetView, by essentially giving one credit for whatever one had spent on
NetView and Switch Analyzer towards the purchase of  Precision IP.
  There's no expiration date associated with that offer I was told,
so you can stay on NetView or move to Precision whenever you are ready.
 But for details of your personal savings, you'd be wise to meet with
your IBM marketing rep.

Personally speaking, I'd say that if
you don't already have Switch Analyzer, it would be far less effort overall
to adopt Precision right away, rather than adopt ITSA now and Precision
later.  Some large customers who already have both NetView and ITSA
have said that they will be halting any further implementation of Switch
Analyzer and start a migration to Precision  as soon as possible.

James Shanks
Level 3 Support  for Tivoli NetView for UNIX and Windows
Network Availability Management
Network Management - Development
Tivoli Software, IBM Corp

"James Brunke" <jbrunke@ctsgi.com>
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08/18/2006 11:19 PM

Please respond to
Tivoli NetView Discussions <nv-l@lists.ca.ibm.com>

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Subject	RE: [NV-L] Switch Analyzer How good is it?

Honest, you really should consider saving your money
and put it toward
whatever "up charge" you will need to pay to move from Netview
to
Precision... 

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Fitzwater [mailto:jfitz@princeton.edu] 
Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 7:41 PM
To: Tivoli NetView Discussions
Subject: [NV-L] Switch Analyzer How good is it?

                
We are still debating the purchase of Switch Analyzer and it is hard
to find out exactly all the functionality it possesses.

We have both CISCO devices for core routers and building distribution,
but
all the end devices are 3Com;  Both of which have substantial numbers.
We also do NOT use Spanning Tree past the core routers/switches, due to
issues with 3Com and VLANS.

Can anybody tell me their experience with the product, as far as L2 mapping
with these vendors and what other cost benefits the product gives you.


It sounds like we may be able to purchase the product for under 80k.


Any info would be helpful.




Thank you.




Jeff Fitzwater
OIT Network Systems
Princeton University


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