I am confused about what exactly you are trying to do, partly I think
because you have confused two very different things,  distributed NetView
as provided by MLM, and the NetView client.   Let me see if I can clarify
this for you.

The NetView client is just a way to offload GUI functions from one machine
to another.  The client does no polling function, and it seldom makes sense
to have him in a different subnet from the server.  If you do that, then
you have all the traffic between the server and the client flowing across a
router taking up a lot of network bandwidth.  There are configurations
where this is a sensible thing to do, but not many.

Distributed NetView, or MLM, is just the opposite, if you will, of the
client.  Here we are offloading daemon functions, namely discovery and
status polling, to another box.  MLM machines seldom have a GUI, though
this is now possible with NetView for NT, using the attended MLM function.
But you would not do that with a client.  Such a box would be a NetView
server in its own right, but would forward status to another NetView
somewhere else.  The advantage of attended MLM is that yoou have a local
GUI as well.  But as this is a heavy load on the box, it is not usually
used unless you plan to have operators on tht remote box all the time.

Hope this helps a little.

James Shanks
Tivoli (NetView for UNIX) L3 Support




OGrant <OGrant AT PEC DOT COM> on 03/08/99 05:19:00 PM

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Subject:  netview 5.1 nt - mlm





Hullo all - I'm trying to install netview for nt's mlm function; the
instructions, however, are confusing, to say the least.  Has anyone
successfully installed/configured mlm in a netview 5.1/nt environment?
Some
of the questions we have include:

 - From *where* do you install nvmlmsetup.exe - the netview server or
client?
(Presumably the former.)
 - What modifications to the netview client do you make to enable it as a
mlm
 - does one load a mlm mib on the client, in addition to the server?
 - What's one to do if one doesn't have a netview/unix console available to
configure the mlm mib?
 - etc...

Some obviously naive questions about the underlying functions of mlm, but
the documentation hasn't helped any in clarifying the mystery.  Many
thanks.


Oliver M. Grant
Performance Engineering Corp.