Will,

I spoke to Bay about the support for NV 5.1 and the answer from the top is
that the Optivity NMS software will not support NV 5.1 until April 1999.
Albeit that the latest version of TME NV may be superior to NV 4.x, there
are currently no upgrade paths for NV 4.x customers may have integrated
third party products ( Optivity NMS, Optivity Analysis, Optivity Planning,
Olicom Switch Manager, Nortel OMS-P, Liebert SiteNet Manager, etc).

Do you have the date as to when IBM/Tivoli  plans to drop all support of NV
4.x?  I have made requests to extend NV 4.x support, but no one at Tivoli
has either called me back or has responded by E-mail with answers.




From: wmason AT TIVOLI DOT COM on 11/03/98 06:22 AM


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Debbie,
It would be good advice to tell you to upgrade to NetView 5.1.  Tivoli is
dropping support ( code fixes in November, and all support by early next
year ) for all the 4.x NetViews.  NetView 5.1 is far superior to any of the
4.x versions, including the attended MLM with the NT version.  Suffice it
to say that anyone who is considering 4.x in their network management
future is going to do so on their own without any support after Q1.  We
are diligently working on upgrading all the partner integration.  Since the
API's haven't changed in the AIX version, chances are the partner software
will work just fine.  NT and Solaris are getting Cisco and Nways support
by end of the month, Bay by end of year, and 3Com early next year.  We
also have approximately 175 partners on the upgrade train as I write this.
I believe there are some ptf's in the upgrade of the OS, so please check
with
Tivoli support to find out, as I'm out of the office all week and don't
have
any notes with me.
Good Luck with your upgrades and don't hesitate to email me direct if you
have any questions.
Will

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>
> Subject: NetView AIX 4.1.2 on AIX 4.2.1?
> Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1998 14:27:10 +0200
> From: Debbie Sparg <dsparg AT FGH.CO DOT ZA>
>
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I have a customer who is still on NetView 4.1.2 and AIX 3.1.5. This
> weekend they plan to upgrade to AIX 4.2.1. Will NetView 4.1.2 support
> AIX 4.2.1 or do they require any ptf's?
>
> Regards
> Debbie
>
>
_______________________________________________
Will Mason
NetView Product Evangelist
wmason AT tivoli DOT com
http://www.tivoli.com
"While the inferior man seeks to put the blame on
other persons, bewailing his fate, the superior
man seeks the error within himself."
I-Ching