If you have a firm grasp of SNMP and network admin & mgmt, and like Linux,
PostgreSQL, Java, Tomcat, RRD, Perl, XML and lots of config file editing - you
might like OpenNMS. http://www.opennms.org/. It handles the core of what Netview
does. Commercial support for OpenNMS is available from an outfit called Blast
Internet Servcies - see http://www.blast.com/opennms/pricing.shtml. I have
absolutely no affiliation and know nothing else about them.

You be the judge. Personally having used Netview and openview for years, the
baggage the *Views carry, goes unnoticed by myself. The strides IBM has made in
cutting a lot of that baggage loose can easily be lost on new customers without
prior *View experience. Also, being a TEC junkie, the new integrations and
pricing are also a benefit for me. I also have absolutely no affiliation with
IBM (anymore - used to work for a business partner).

The minimum TEC purchase, which includes Netview and Data Warehouse, lists at
about $5800, I think. Blast wants $3500 per annum for support of freeware
OpenNMS, the development of which they do not control. Be sure you and your
company want to cut loose before jumping ship.

-Jim

James B. Federline
Lead ESM Analyst
Metris Companies
jim.federline AT metriscompanies DOT com

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Subject:    RE: [nv-l] selection names
Author:     owner-nv-l-digest AT lists.us.ibm DOT com
Date:       10/30/03 8:28 AM




THis is a very big leak in NV. The only ting I can do for this is update the DNS
with the correct names. In this case equipment objects (routers, switches,
servers) displayed as names, but interfaces and networks still displayed as IP
addresses. Do not try to rename them manually, NV will change it back next
morning (I did this twice :))

It is a bit hard to love netview. Anyone knows a good freeware replacement of
this product?

L:


> -----Original Message-----
> From: tilo.strauch AT rzleipzig DOT de [mailto:tilo.strauch AT rzleipzig DOT 
> de]
> Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 10:09 AM
> To: nv-l AT lists.us.ibm DOT com
> Subject: [nv-l] selection names
>
>
>
>
>
> Hi list,
>
> I've Netview 7.1.3 on AIX. All network-selection-names are IP addresses
> and
> now I want to change those names into "names".
>
> Is there a config file were I can edit selection names?
>
>
> Tilo Strauch
> Netzwerkmanagement
> Deutsche Rentenversicherung
> Rechenzentrum Leipzig e.V.
> Tel.: +49 0341 9170-220
> Fax:  +49 0341 9110-806
> mailto:tilo.strauch AT rzleipzig DOT de