Re: [NV-L] Comparison: Netview and ITNM

[mani <usman.taokeer@gmail.com>]

Considering long term isnt it better to invest resources in ITNM rather than netview. I believe eversince the release of 'ITNM-Entry Edition' netview will be replaced.

Talking about performance of netview there is a HUGE difference in a Windows box and a linux box, i would suggest that go with Linux coz may be  primarliy Netview was developed for unix enviornments and was 'converted' to run on windows as well.


Regards,
Usman

On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 7:37 AM, John <john_sobrinho@sympatico.ca> wrote:

Although we are migrating to another non ibm technology I must say that running netview on AIX is rock solid. The biggest beef I have had with this product is that some of the basic feature sets are different across each platform.  What can be done on windows may not be possible on AIX or vice versa, and linux..

 

We have had challenges with lack of features and richness from the product, but the custom c libraries that are added to netview

Allowed us to build some pretty slick "side customized tools' to enhance netview. I am sure netcool's delevelopment tools can bring that add on value as well.

 

I suggest u review your needs and try and look visualize what that would look like in 3 yrs time, and review what solution would have longer term beneifet, and weather or not you have appropriate skill sets in your organization to develop what is needed.

 

Very rarely has the server or services has gone down on our boxes, and I give kudos to the engineering folks, and the regular contributors of this forum who has helped us tremendously when I first started a few years back. I can truly say we do have 99.999 uptime.

 

We are still going to keep our netview box running for a while after migration to tool x for a few things.

 

 

 

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Subject: Re: [NV-L] Comparison: Netview and ITNM

 

I had the chance to see both products in a production environment.. In this particular case the customer was not at all satisfied with Netview because it had very poor performance and was not working properly... it was installed on a Windows Server 2003... the most notorius problem was that no one was using the tool so obviously they had a lot of difficulties when they try to use it after months of no maintenance at all ... so they decided to migrate to ITNM (also because they had some kind of arrangement about license issues).. and the improvement was huge... this migration was done a month ago... there were more people committed with the implementation of ITNM and it's working really fine ... The costumer is more satisfied .. because this time the tool works!!..

Netview is really easy to install and its out-of-the-box functionality is decent... ITNM requires more customization and is more difficult to install because of all the netcool products that are needed.. it's not an imposible installation but it's not as easy as Netview's...

Netview is superior in data collection... it could draw real time graphics ... ITNM doesn't have this features yet  but luckily the costumer was not interested in this kind of functionality.  

ITNM capacity to monitor layer 2 devices is very important for me... When I used Netview with Switch Analyzer I experienced problems with the performance of my netview clients.. especially with  netview web console.. so having this feature incorporated gave the peace that I was looking for!!!.. lol..

By now this is my input... let's see what else I can say after a little more interaction with ITNM..  

 

Saludos / Regards / Um abraço
Andrés Rodríguez Flores
Kruger Corporation
"Conocimiento y Tecnología al Servicio de su Negocio"

 
mani <usman.taokeer@gmail.com>
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Hi List,

Has anyone used both of these products (NV & ITNM) in a produciton enviornemnt? Is ITNM better than Netview, feature wise, (excluding the looks n feels). I have seen ITNM but never used it in production. Any input is appreciated!

Regards,
Usman

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