Complete the Migration

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Black Lion Telecom’s NetView REXX procedures -- some unchanged, some with minor updates, some rewritten, and a few totally replaced by NCL -- are finally all running in NETM10.
NETM10 runs in parallel with NETVIEW9. The operation of NETM10 is repeatedly tested, compared, and verified against the Tivoli NetView system it will replace. It meets the NETVIEW9’s existing service level agreements with no difficulty.
As part of the migration, the following tasks were performed:
  • The network operations staff receives basic
    NetMaster
    training. Very little training is required in many areas because the migrated REXX procedures perform almost identically to their Tivoli NetView equivalents. The NCCF look-alike facility helps a lot.
  • The technical writers update Black Lion Telecom’s network operations procedures.
  • The support staff learns to use the
    NetMaster
    Alert Monitor. Black Lion Telecom plans to make the Alert Monitor part of their standard monitoring.
Complete the Migration 1
Complete the Migration 1

Service Desk Manager
Integration

Black Lion Telecom runs
Service Desk Manager
. Because
Service Desk Manager
requests can be created from alerts for serious network error conditions, help desk personnel are given contact procedures for z/OS SNA Network Support. The following Request List shows some requests.
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Complete the Migration 2

What Is Next?

Black Lion Telecom’s migration team have learned a lot about
NetMaster
NetView REXX Emulation. Their NetView REXX programmers have an overview of the
NetMaster
development environment. Now that the migrated NCCF REXX procedures are stable, their network operations analysts have time to familiarize themselves with all the SNA management capabilities in
NetMaster
.
They begin to plan their further migration from NLDM to
NetMaster
NTS and from NPDA to
NetMaster
NEWS. They also plan to use NCPView and SNA Summary in
NetMaster
. This completes their Tivoli NetView migration.
Unlike NCCF, where you often did most of your customized development, migration to NTS, NEWS, NCPView, and other
NetMaster NM for SNA
management features requires
comparatively little if any coding. Robust, out-of-the-box menu structures are provided with these SNA features that let many ex-Tivoli NetView customers work in
NetMaster
quickly.
As Black Lion Telecom’s z/OS IP network grows in the future,
NetMaster NM for TCP/IP
can help them.