RE: [nv-l] NV on Linux
2004-03-03 11:02:25
Thank you, this is what I was looking for. I'm
not sure why when I looked at the supported OS's in my release notes, Linux
wasn't listed. I'm sure I did something wrong.
Thanks for the help.
Dean, I have no knowledge about when new OS's will be supported
other than what has already been announced. I don't do that. I'm
simply informed after the fact. And you have to understand that the
contents of a new release are IBM Confidential until announced or released.
Even if I did know I couldn't tell you as a member of the public until the
executives remove the confidentiality stricture. If you have a business
need to know, and it sounds as if you do, then you can ask your IBM marketing
rep to prepare a nondisclosure agreement so you can discuss this with
development.
The currently supported
OS's for each platform are listed in the Release Notes. You might also
want to make sure that all the functions you are now using on Solaris are
available on Linux. Not all of it is. That too is the Release Notes.
And you can get Release Notes for more current releases than the one you
have at http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/tividd/td/NetView7.1.4.html
James Shanks Level 3 Support for
Tivoli NetView for UNIX and Windows Tivoli Software / IBM Software
Group
Dean Sullinger
<DSullinger AT dot.state.az DOT us> Sent by: owner-nv-l AT lists.us.ibm DOT com
03/03/2004 08:48 AM
|
To
| nv-l AT lists.us.ibm DOT com
|
cc
|
|
Subject
| RE: [nv-l] NV on
Linux |
|
> recorded in the Release Notes
James, I don't know where
I'm missing this, but I looked in the release notes and I couldn't find
anyplace where it stated what versions are supported. I installed Red
Hat Fedora to try out the Linux version, but when I run the Nvprereq script,
it states that this version is not supported. What about Red Hat 9
(shrike) and when will Netview Linux support Fedora (I happen to really like
this release of Linux).
Background - We are currently running Netview
7.1.1 on a Sun SunBlade 1000 with 2GB of memory, dual 850MHz UltraSPARC III.
Yet we pay over $25k a year in Sun HW support (this includes 8 other
Sun boxes used to support the network). If we moved to Linux, they
would all be replaced with PC's running Linux and this would eliminate our
Sun support cost. What is your (or anyone else's) thought on the
difference in platforms. Our database has about 15,000
nodes.
Thanks
-----Original Message----- From: James
Shanks [mailto:jshanks AT us.ibm DOT com] Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 7:37
AM To: nv-l AT lists.tivoli DOT com Subject: Re: [nv-l] NV on Linux
There
is no mystery here.
The policy towards Linux is the same as it is towards
AIX, Solaris, or Windows.
When a new release is scheduled to go out,
we test on the latest levels available. If the code works, great, and
that is recorded in the Release Notes as the latest supported level. If
it doesn't work, defects are taken and pursued until it does work. If
all that happens before the new release is shipped, great. If not, then
the last successful level is what goes into the Release Notes. Then that
level is installed by IBM support groups worldwide. So the
supported level is always the last level to go thru formal
Verification. This is not anything new. And if you think about
it, how could it be anything else?
But there is no way to update the
support level after shipment, until a new release of the code comes out.
We cannot announce support for a new OS level without a formal test and
we are not allocated test resources until a new release is being tested prior
to shipment. Again, this not a new policy, nor are we deficient in any
way.
The bottom line is that 7.1.4 will be the next time you will see
the announced level of OS support changed.
You are free to use a newer
level if you must. That doesn't mean that you are out in the cold.
It just means that there remains the possibility that some issue you
bring to Support might be determined to be OS-related and unfixable in
current code. If the Support person has no such problem at his level
and yet you have it at yours, then there may be no resolution anyone
can give you until a newer release of the product ships. Most of the time
that is not an issue, however. But as the customer, you have to decide
what is an acceptable level of risk.
James Shanks Level 3 Support
for Tivoli NetView for UNIX and NT Tivoli Software / IBM Software
Group
"Mahesh Tailor"
<MTailor AT carilion DOT com> 06/17/2003 09:20 AM
To: <nv-l AT lists.tivoli DOT com>
cc: Subject:
[nv-l] NV on Linux
Hello,
I have been testing
Netview 7.1.3 on RedHat 7.2 and see that all the functionality that I need is
there. Unfortunately, RedHat 7.2 is not available and is not a product
certified by the server hardware vendor; the newer versions of RedHat are.
RedHat itself is not selling or supporting this platform. What is
worse is that IBM itself will not sell this version of Redhat with their
xSeries systems!
So in frustration, I reloaded the machine with RedHat
7.3 [old, but reliable and certified by hardware vendor]; changed the locale
information to en_US and then installed Netview 7.1.3. It works fine.
While I realize that RH7.3 is not a supported platform from NV/IBM's
point, I am wondering when support for the newer versions of RedHat is going
to come about?
Perhaps, someone from IBM could shed some light on
this issue given IBM's push towards
Linux.
Thanks.
Mahesh
--------------------------------------------------------------------- To
unsubscribe, e-mail: nv-l-unsubscribe AT lists.tivoli DOT com For
additional commands, e-mail: nv-l-help AT lists.tivoli DOT com
*NOTE* This
is not an Offical Tivoli Support forum. If you need immediate assistance from
Tivoli please call the IBM Tivoli Software Group help line at
1-800-TIVOLI8(848-6548)
--------------------------------------------------------------------- To
unsubscribe, e-mail: nv-l-unsubscribe AT lists.tivoli DOT com For
additional commands, e-mail: nv-l-help AT lists.tivoli DOT com
*NOTE* This
is not an Offical Tivoli Support forum. If you need immediate assistance from
Tivoli please call the IBM Tivoli Software Group help line at
1-800-TIVOLI8(848-6548)
|
|
|