I tried -- and eventually gave up -- to combine Netview 5.1/NT with Oracle
(for consistency reasons - we have other apps using Oracle as a db backend);
from my experience, it's not a simple matter of converting the
event/snmpcollect db structures to Oracle, and pointing Netview to the
Oracle odbc driver - apparantly there's more behind the scenes here.  If
anyone has any success stories here, I'd be interested in hearing them -

Oliver Grant
Performance Engineering Corp.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Xu He [SMTP:xuhe AT YAHOO DOT COM]
> Sent: Friday, July 09, 1999 8:25 AM
> To:   NV-L AT UCSBVM.ucsb DOT edu
> Subject:      Re: Does Netview 5.1.1 on NT support RDBMSes???
>
> Unfortunately, I have the answer you probably don't
> want to hear.  For the main databases under
> \usr\ov\databases\openview, the format for the ovwdb,
> topology, and mapdb is the same as the older versions.
>  I did remember hearing from someone that it's still
> in Btrieve format.  However, the event database is in
> RDBMS Compliant, it can be in either Access or MS SQL
> format.  I think Tivoli was trying to convert the
> database to RDBMS, from the two other DSN (snmpcollect
> and Topology) it created in Windows ODBC Settings.  I
> did query the those DSNs and notice it was empty.  In
> theory, I think you can write the event database to
> another RDBMS, but I haven't tested it.  With the
> current version, I think the default MS Access
> database is sufficient for storing the events.
>
> Xu He
>
>
>
>
>
> --- Don Seitz <don_seitz AT INS DOT COM> wrote:
> > I have been asked, and cannot find it specifically
> > written out, but does
> > Netview 5.1.1 on NT support any relational
> > databases, like: Oracle,
> > Sybase...etc?????
> >
> > Thanks for your clarification
> > Don Seitz
> >
>
> ===
> Xu He
> Consulting Services Engineer
> Network Solutions, Inc
> http://www.netsol.com/consulting
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