RE: [NV-L] Switch Analyzer How good is it?

Actually, that's how it will work anyway.

I just attended a department meeting this week in which it was announced that Tivoli General Manager, Al Zollar, had approved a plan to preserve every existing customer's investment in NetView, by essentially giving one credit for whatever one had spent on NetView and Switch Analyzer towards the purchase of Precision IP. There's no expiration date associated with that offer I was told, so you can stay on NetView or move to Precision whenever you are ready. But for details of your personal savings, you'd be wise to meet with your IBM marketing rep.

Personally speaking, I'd say that if you don't already have Switch Analyzer, it would be far less effort overall to adopt Precision right away, rather than adopt ITSA now and Precision later. Some large customers who already have both NetView and ITSA have said that they will be halting any further implementation of Switch Analyzer and start a migration to Precision as soon as possible.

James Shanks
Level 3 Support for Tivoli NetView for UNIX and Windows
Network Availability Management
Network Management - Development
Tivoli Software, IBM Corp

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Honest, you really should consider saving your money and put it toward whatever "up charge" you will need to pay to move from Netview to Precision... -----Original Message----- From: Jeff Fitzwater [mailto:jfitz AT princeton DOT edu] Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 7:41 PM To: Tivoli NetView Discussions Subject: [NV-L] Switch Analyzer How good is it? We are still debating the purchase of Switch Analyzer and it is hard to find out exactly all the functionality it possesses. We have both CISCO devices for core routers and building distribution, but all the end devices are 3Com; Both of which have substantial numbers. We also do NOT use Spanning Tree past the core routers/switches, due to issues with 3Com and VLANS. Can anybody tell me their experience with the product, as far as L2 mapping with these vendors and what other cost benefits the product gives you. It sounds like we may be able to purchase the product for under 80k. Any info would be helpful. Thank you. Jeff Fitzwater OIT Network Systems Princeton University _______________________________________________ NV-L mailing list NV-L AT lists.ca.ibm DOT com Unsubscribe:NV-L-leave AT lists.ca.ibm DOT com http://lists.ca.ibm.com/mailman/listinfo/nv-l (Browser access limited to internal IBM'ers only) _______________________________________________ NV-L mailing list NV-L AT lists.ca.ibm DOT com Unsubscribe:NV-L-leave AT lists.ca.ibm DOT com http://lists.ca.ibm.com/mailman/listinfo/nv-l (Browser access limited to internal IBM'ers only)

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