Re: HP Openview

["John Kinsella" <jlk () thrashyour com>]

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