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From: eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Network management from NeXT
Message-ID: <1677@toaster.SFSU.EDU>
Date: 8 Jun 91 01:36:48 GMT
References: <1991Jun7.051355.9380@sol.acs.unt.edu>
Reply-To: eps@cs.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Organization: San Francisco State University
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In article <1991Jun7.051355.9380@sol.acs.unt.edu>
	kev@sol.acs.unt.edu (Mullet Kevin Wright) writes:
>Is anyone doing SNMP network management from a NeXT?

I use the (free) CMU tools on a fairly regular basis.  I really
need something that's a lot happier with MIB-II, though.

>                                                      I don't suppose anyone's 
>ported Sun-Net manager to Mach have they?

I've been toying with the idea of developing a graphical SNMP
environment for the NeXTstation Color (in WHAT "copious free
time???").  It's not like it's hard to do, it just takes doing.
I'll have to bow out this time.  I assume Sun-Net manager is
expensive licensed commercial software?

>... does TCP/IP on the NeXT support logging of incoming syslog messages?

It's supposed to!

>... how viable would a NeXT be as a "normal use" workstation while also
>serving as a bootp server (possible?) and domain name server (possible?).

BOOTP: Back in the bad ol' 1.0 days, I found BOOTP useless (for
anything other than booting other NeXTs) because NeXT had only
implemented the original (RFC 951) version.  I haven't checked to
see if that's been rectified in 2.0/2.1, but I have my doubts.
If not, beat up on NeXT--this is one of those things they have to
fix.  I wouldn't try it myself.

DNS: Works great (just don't try to use the version NeXT ships).
32MB RAM highly recommended!

>.. has anyone ported CMDF to the NeXT yet?  If so how well does it work?

I've never heard of it.

>What kind of upgrade path is there for processing power and disk space on 
>the NeXT?

If you have a NeXTstation or NeXTstation Color, there isn't one.
If you have a cube, well, just be patient.  :-)

Disk space: I wouldn't worry about it, unless you need more than
6GB per machine (so far I've been able to contain myself :-) ).
There's a lot to be said for dedicated NFS servers (e.g. Auspex,
Epoch), but they're expensive unless you're into serious disk
farms.

					-=EPS=-