Author: "Scherting, Mark" <mscherting AT state.mt DOT us>
Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 10:31:43 -0600
Hi all, Yesterday (5/14) I had a couple of sales reps in my office talking up the latest Tivoli Switch Analyzer offering. Supposedly it was released yesterday and now supports multiple VLANs and sub-
Author: "Jeffrey G. Fitzwater" <jfitz AT Princeton DOT EDU>
Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 13:00:36 -0400
You are right, the price it is QUITE STUNNING. They were here at Princeton U. as sales pitch. The basic price wasn't too bad but the cost per switch port was insane considering we have thousands of p
We were discussing the same thing here, (incorporating Switch Analyzer) but have yet to see a price tag on it. However, we have Cisco Works 2000 and I understand that Netview can integrate with it. D
Author: "Scott Hammons" <s.hammons AT ais-nms DOT com>
Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 12:52:07 -0500
Switch Analyzer provides quite a bit of correlation that assists in determining root cause for events from Layer 2 and Layer 3. You could probably configure CiscoWorks/NetView to provide you with sim
Author: "Mike Walsh" <Mike.Walsh AT us.ing DOT com>
Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 13:00:55 -0500
I don not believe that the CiscoWorks will do root cause analysis and forwarding to TEC. We also have CW2000 here, but mainly use it for Cisco specific work. Mike Walsh **Please Note - New EMAIL Addr
Carlos, Switch Analyzer is for layer 2 monitoring. Integrating Cisco Works with netview will not give you layer 2. It will provide the cisco mibs and provide pretty cisco device icons. If you are pri
Author: Stephen Hochstetler <shochste AT us.ibm DOT com>
Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 15:15:59 -0500
soap box on: I have not worked in the lab with ITSA 1.2.1 yet, but I have worked with ITSA 1.2. The value is good if you have a single tier of switches. When NetView sees a server go down, ITSA will