We were an early Tavve customer and have seen some pretty major changes over
time but I am generally pleased with the products.  The design of our
network makes it tough on the root cause analysis features but the product
does provide insight in many situations.  I think the product still needs
work in the PRM and data collection areas to really compete with products
like Concord's Network Health (Concord can get quite expensive in a large
network) in the long term but you can get most of the data you need from the
current Tavve product suite.  One of the major benefits of EventWatch is the
paging engine and logic. This area also needs a little work but works much
better than the ruleset and script based paging we had before purchasing and
implementing Tavve.

I could go on about other features we like and dislike but I might sound a
little too much like an advertisement...  :-)


----- Original Message -----
From: Hill, Channing <CHill AT BBANDT DOT COM>
To: <NV-L AT UCSBVM.ucsb DOT edu>
Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2000 9:07 AM
Subject: Netview and Tavve


> Hello List
>
> I was wondering if there were any NV-L subcribers that had Tavve
integrated
> with their Netview install. If so and you would like to reply to this,
then
> what are your thoughts on Tavve's features and the types of problems you
> encountered with the EventWatch and PRM modules.
>
> Thanks in advance
> Channing Hill
> EMS Analyst
> chill AT bbandt DOT com
> > BB&T
> (252) 246-3642