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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

3510.0. "No Windows NT support?" by DECWET::WHITE (Surfin' with the Alien) Mon May 06 1996 15:46

I just tried to install Hubwatch for Windows on my NT box and it puked all
over the place.

I mean, I assumed that it was an NT kit.  What Network Manager runs Windows 3.1 or
3.11?  We all run NetView on UNIX or NT!

So I read the SPD that came with the kit, and it sure enough, it's not an NT kit.

Could this really be possible?

If it is, I'm amazed.  Totally amazed.

-Stephen
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3510.1see v5.0SLINK::HOODYour bad news bearMon May 06 1996 16:189
Stephen,

Cool it.

Version 5.0 of the MultiChassis Manager is Windows/NT native.


Tom Hood
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3510.2We have ways of making it workGIDDAY::MORETTIDeath is just a formalityMon May 06 1996 22:4917
    
    
    Stephen,
    
    
    You could do what the rest of us have done, create a FAT partition,
    boot DOS and install Windows on this partition and then load the
    HUBwatch s/w from inside the Windows program and then boot NT and all
    will work.........or do as Tom says and chill til the V5 kit comes out.
    
    Tis a tad strange though when you consider the "strategic" alliance we
    have with MS and the number of OTHER platforms we can run HUBWATCH
    under (like HPOV,etc)
    
    Cheers
    
    John
3510.3Steve - read the directions!PTOJJD::DANZAKPittsburgher �Thu May 09 1996 14:1035
    Steve,
    
    You know what they say about the word "assumed".
    
    As experience increases, assumptions decrease.
    
    I installed it, quite by chance, on Windows/NT/AXP and it worked fine.
    
    The Software Product Description is a legal and binding document.  Read
    it, understand it.  It is a contractual commitment which is for the
    benefit of both Digital and the customer.  It prevents us getting our
    anatomy sued off for non-performance when very large users are
    disappointed with features that they "assume" a product has.
    
    Other notes in the file indicate that while it is NOT officially
    supported under Windows/NT, it can work quite well.  But if any serious
    show-stopper issues show up - we can not remedy them unless they are on
    a supported platform.
    
    When you try to support software on a variety of platforms which are as
    'standard' as the PC, the SPD becomes even MORE important!
    
    Me, hell...I typically caution customers that "our direction is NT,
    however we can run industrial-strength on Windows 3.11 today but you
    can likely get it to work reasonably well under Windows/NT or 95.  That
    proviso usually satisfies the customers and they go happily along.
    
    (Unless of course they want UNIX....which is another industry standard
    story.)
    
    So many standards, so little time...
    
    ttfn,
    j
    ^--who thought that Steve gave up unqualified superlatives for Lent..