OpenView Network Node Manager: Designing and Implementing an Enterprise Solution

Introduction

NNM is used in multivendor heterogeneous network environments. The X-Windows or web browser GUIs tend to exhibit differences depending on the particular client-side computer, operating system, browser, and X-Windows emulator. This chapter brings together these issues, some of which are mentioned briefly in other sections of the book.

X-Windows compensates for differences in the underlying operating system, windowing system, graphical display properties, user workstation performance, and network capacity.

Java version and performance issues require that both Solaris and HP-UX are properly patched and that Netscape 4.6 and later be the cross-platform browser of choice.

Bandwidth requirements for X-Windows are actually quite modest ...