Given the variety of hardware types present in today's business environment, a variety of separate, but closely related, network-management platforms is needed. IBM's family of NetView management solutions -- now available for many major platforms -- is designed to meet this requirement. The NetView family stretches from the smallest local area networks and workgroups to the largest interconnected, global networks.
NetView management solutions are available on MVS, VM, VSE, AIX, OS/2, Sun, and Windows platforms, and many applications are available from IBM. The objective? To simplify the process of systems management while encompassing the variety of hardware types businesses use in their networks.
Warner describes it as "a set of common management services based on industry standards; and the industry's most comprehensive, integrated, task-oriented process to manage all the resources in an information system." "It will be delivered as a single, integrated product," he continued, "with selectable functions." First delivery of this part of the IBM SystemView family of products will begin the end of this year, ushering in what Warner calls "the era of integration" in systems management.