[49835] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: HP Openview
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Kinsella)
Wed Jul 10 16:41:36 2002
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 13:40:59 -0700
From: "John Kinsella" <jlk@thrashyour.com>
To: "Eric Whitehill" <eric@botbay.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20020710160859.N16923-100000@botbay.net>; from eric@botbay.net on Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 04:34:26PM -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
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
>
