Conference netcad::hub_mgnt

3420.0. "Offline HUBwatch for planning?" by NETRIX::"peter.dressel@aui.mts.dec.com" (Peter Dressel) Wed Apr 03 1996 10:46

Today, in daily planning it is hard to keep a level.
Old concepts for planning and documentation are not suiting todays networks:
Old drawing concepts are not fitting. How to plan and document e.g. a HUB?

My Idea:
- "Offline" HUBwatch to configure without active Equipment.
- Testing configuration with a Test-Tool.
- Saving Configuration with Resilience (or shall I say Clearvision?).
- Giving Media (Diskettes...) to Field for Installation.
- Saving "Pictures" from my "Offline" Hubwatch for Documentation
  (Should be a better solution than Print-Key).
- Sampling all Docs together to burn a CD
- Delivering Doc to Customer (On CD).
  (Must be easy to read and print: E.g. ADOBE-PDF-Reader, not Bookreader)

That's only an idea. But I believe that it would also be able to encrease
productivity and quality:

- Straight way from planning to Documentation, avoiding unnecessary steps.
- To give Media to our Field-Service is better than to discuss configuration
  of complex networks on Paper.
- Everybody is tending to digital Multimedia (Marketingstrategy?), but
  Network-Documentations are on Paper, like hundred years ago.


Peter 
Network Services Austria
 
[Posted by WWW Notes gateway]

    Peter,
    
    Some of the stuff you mentioned is planned (Offline HUBwatch...)
    For some of the other stuff, well, we're doing long-range planning
    right now.  I'll bring it up.
    
    Personally, I'd rather burn CD's (with a flamethrower) and get a 
    paper book.  ;-)  It's too hard to read a CD in bed.
    
    Tom Hood
    clearVISN eng

also I will print out all the saved files with the
Backup&Restore Language from Resilience.
This Paper-Pack I will send to you.
Then you can read it in bed!

I hope the NW-Mgmt at customer-site isn't working in bed?!


Regards
Peter

I wish you Happy Easter!

[Posted by WWW Notes gateway]