Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!yale!mintaka!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!mcsun!ukc!icdoc!gould!njw From: njw@doc.ic.ac.uk (Nick Williams) Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp Subject: Re: Any recommendations for (HP) network managing tools ?? Message-ID: Date: 23 Nov 90 13:18:59 GMT References: <4355@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl> <86126@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Sender: news@doc.ic.ac.uk Organization: Department of Computing, Imperial College, London Lines: 30 In-reply-to: mcmillan@gryphon.cis.ohio-state.edu's message of 21 Nov 90 14:33:05 GMT At the Boston HP-Interex exhibition this summer, on one of the HP stands, they were exhibiting a tool which ran on the HP, using X Windows, which probed the network and dynamically built up a map, showing all the connections, gateways, etc... It all looked pretty slick, and *apparently* did not have a high overhead of network traffic. The thing could also show what hosts were up at the current time, and all that sort of froody stuff. I have since forgotten the name of it (maybe someone from HP could help out here), but it was a fairly new product then - when I asked about how it was probing the network, the reply was along the lines of "we can't tell you that yet, because a patent is still going thru." Hmm... This could well be useful to you, and doesn't involve soiling your hands with PC kit :-) Nick. -- ______________________________________________________________________________ Nick Williams. njw@doc.ic.ac.uk ... Dept of Computing, Imperial College, London SW7 2B7. UK njw@athena.mit.edu ... Project Athena, M.I.T., Cambridge, MA 02139. USA Any opinions or views you may find hiding in this message are mine, and not policy, intent, ideas, twinklings of eyes, or anything at all related with my current organisation, unless specifically noted as such.