HP Openview

Wed Jul 10 20:57:06 UTC 2002

Also take a look at JFFNMS -  http://jffnms.sourceforge.net/
It might be worth letting us know what your management requirements
are before dismissing OpenView ;-)

ta,
Matt.
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Kinsella" <jlk at thrashyour.com>
To: "Eric Whitehill" <eric at botbay.net>
Cc: <nanog at merit.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 9:40 PM
Subject: Re: HP Openview


>
> Might want to take a peek at OpenNMS...http://www.opennms.org  I'm not
> sure it'll be everything you dream of, but hey it's a hell of a lot
> cheaper...
>
> John
>
> On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 04:34:26PM -0400, Eric Whitehill wrote:
> >
> > NANOG:
> >
> > I am curious if anyone has been working with HP Openview as an NMS.
I've
> > been looking at it (Specifically the service call portion) and so far,
> > have not been impressed - I'm just not seeing the feature set I would
> > expect.  Am I just being stubborn and not seeing the advantages of this?
> > >From my understanding the full HP Openview is in beta, but I'm not
sure.
> >
> > I've done some researching on HP's website, and I can't seem to really
> > find any relevant data.  One of the large sticking points is I am trying
> > to find a *nix based client, specifically one I can get working on
> > Solaris, and so far, I'm having a difficut time tracking one down.
> >
> > Am I wasteing my time with HP Openview?  If you are using it, are you
> > pleased?  Should I accept fate and life and eat chicken for supper
> > tonight?
> >
> > Any advise and suggestions are welcomed.
> >
> > -Eric
> >
>