> > which are useful unless you have to manage lots of those boxes, > I wouldn't know. > but isn't that what OpenView is for? and is unbeatable in that field? >
Openview doesn't manage those boxes specifically. It's an expensive SNMP-mib collector/network-discovery-agent/oh-crap-this-node-went-down-page-someone -agent. If you're wanting GUI management of Cisco boxes, look at Cisco Works. The best platform you can get for it is Solaris (which is nothing to sneeze at.) It is nice to have CW go out and archive the software revs and keep a database of all that. I've never used CW for anything more than an audit trail of changes. The GUI, like all management GUI's, just ain't natural for we command-line-folk. For me, telnet and a tftp daemon do just fine. Throw in a perl script or two to scrog configs regularly and parse syslog entries, and add MRTG on top of that. my .02. -- John B. Kramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://24.17.57.58/~yoda/index.html
