I
would like to thank everyone for the great responses, the information was
technical and to the point. This was exactly what we were looking for and
this information will be forwarded to our CIO for viewing.
Thank
you again.
-- Dean Sullinger Arizona
Department of Transportation Information Technology Group Network Architecture
Team
We are
currently are running Netview on a UNIX server. We have been using it in
this configuration for over 8 years. We just purchased 2 new UNIX servers
(1 for production, 1 for backup) to upgrade our current UNIX server. We
are monitoring about 14,000 nodes and have a network that is all IP using OSPF
routing protocol over Nortel Routers.
I work
for a Government agency who is basically a Microsoft shop. The only OS in
the department that is not Microsoft based is our Netview servers. An
issue has just come up as of why we are running UNIX and couldn't we run our
management on NT. We do not have extended UNIX experience and actually
myself and one other technician have about 11+ years of UNIX experience each,
yet our Manager does not want us spending all our time supporting the OS, so we
do it as a side job. So basically we have no real UNIX Admins, but we have
a load of NT Admins.
So I
would like anyone who has thoughts on this to chime in as to why we would move
off the UNIX platform and why we should stay. PLEASE PLEASE keep any
comments as technical... I am not looking for a UNIX vs NT war or any
favoritism. I personally like my UNIX Workstation for Network use than my
NT Laptop, but I like them both and am looking for any technical advise that I
may use to return to management with.
As a
note - I have already approached both Tivoli Support and our UNIX Vendor with
this. They have both provided information that I would prefer not to share
here so as not to sway any opinions.
Thank
you for any help.
-- Dean Sullinger Arizona
Department of Transportation Information Technology Group Network Architecture
Team
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