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From: edwin@cs.ruu.nl (Edwin Kremer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Any recommendations for (HP) network managing tools ??
Keywords: network, monitoring, map, managing
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Date: 20 Nov 90 21:25:16 GMT
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Hello all,

Some time ago, I asked our HP sales rep "What network monitoring/managing
tools do you guys have?", being interested in something that runs on my
workstation (HP9000/345 - HPUX7.0, soon HP9000/400dl) in a seperate window
and does the following things: keep an eye on network traffic, report
failures like a host going down or a cable broken, draw a network map or
at least offers an easy interface for the network manager to draw one, etc.

Well, what came up were a couple of HP tools that run on a some kinda
PC clone :-(  Unfortunately, that's not what I wanted, but maybe times
have changed, so I was wondering if someone could recommend a tool like
this (if such an animal exists anyway). I should make clear that I'm
willing to buy some additional monitoring/probing hardware if necessary,
but I __refuse__ to buy a (Vectra) PC (or a Sun :-]).


		thanks for your time,
						--[ Edwin ]--
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