| Joe,
Netview is an ENTERPRISE management platform made by IBM.
It competes with HP/OpenView and Sun NetManager, and
Digital's Pathworks (now part of Comupter Associates' Unicenter
platform).
Router Manager (Stony Brook) is the tool you want to use for
managing routers ... its "auto-discovery" mechanism and network
map were designed for management of routers. Use this tool to
configure protocols and individual parameters on routers.
(Router Manager works on multi-vendor routers). This tool was
one of the "Best of Show" winners at Interop last Fall.
Also, another clearVISN application you may want to try is
Router Configurator. It allows you to fetch and
apply the entire set of parameters available on Digital's routers.
Once a device's parameter file is saved, it can be written back
to the device at a later time. In this way, you can create
different configurations, saving each to its own filename, and
then apply one of your own choosing. (The tool opens a telnet
session to your router, and does a TFTP get/put to retrieve and
set a router's parameter file, respectively).
clearVISN Recovery Manager is an SNMP-based tool to backup and
restore Digital's network devices. Routers are excluded from
this list, because they are not fully SNMP-compliant.
John Gillis
clearVISN
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