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Conference netcad::hub_mgnt

Title:	DEChub/HUBwatch/PROBEwatch CONFERENCE
Notice:	Firmware -2, Doc -3, Power -4, HW kits -5, firm load -6&7
Moderator:	NETCAD::COLELLADT

Created:	Wed Nov 13 1991
Last Modified:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	4455
Total number of notes:	16761

1499.0. "PROBEwatch capture data => IRIS" by WOTVAX::64021::Tim_Banks (Network Mercenary) Thu Sep 29 1994 05:52

	Jack Forrest is interested in hearing from you folks if you think it 
would be nice/usefull/sell more products/etc if PROBEwatch capture data could 
be fed out into an IRIS compatible format, to allow use of the excellent 
decode capabilities in IRIS.

	If you have a view on this, mail NAC::FORREST

	For my 2c worth the answer was yes, definetly although customers 
might want PROBEwatch to provide good quality decode *for all protocols* as a 
native function. (TCP/IP is quite good already I feel)

	Cheers
		Tim

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
1499.1	Is IRIS a product?	WELLIN::MCCALLUM		`Fri Sep 30 1994 05:03`	3
	I didnt think IRIS was for customers ???
1499.2	IRIS is not for customers	BIKINI::KRAUSE	CSC Network Management/Hubs	`Fri Sep 30 1994 07:32`	7
	Good idea. Shouldn't be too hard to do. BUT: IRIS is not a product and cannot be given to customers. Or are you trying to productize IRIS ? It's definitely production quality but somebody has to fund it. *Robert
1499.3	two views	WOTVAX::64021::Tim_Banks	Network Mercenary	`Tue Oct 04 1994 05:23`	16
	Well, you can view this a number of ways, * As a tool to allow us to perform LAN monitoring/diagnostic services, using IRIS with PROBEwatch output is an excellent addition to our portfolio * This may just spur someone to fund IRIS and productise it which is what a lot of us have been wanting for years. I personally would like to see the PROBE/PROBEwatch combo have this functionality native in the product. That is nice and clean, and simple to sell. Then I would like to the probe to be truly RMON compliant, which it doesn't appear to be today. Tim (a fan of both tools!)