User`s guide

Because Open Systems software comes from so many vendors, the best sources of general purpose information are books. The
following are recommended:
Applications for Distributed Systems and Network Management. By Kornel Terplan and Jill Huntington-Lee. Van
Nostrand Reinhold. 1994. ISBN 0-442-01873-8.
System Performance Tuning. By Mike Loukides. O’Reilly and Associates. 1991. ISBN 0-937175-60-9.
UNIX System Administrator’s Handbook, Second Edition. By Evi Nemeth, Garth Snyder, and Scott Seebass. Prentice
Hall. 1995. ISBN 0-131510-51-7.
Managing NFS and NIS. By Hal Stern. O’Reilly and Associates. 1992. ISBN 0-937175-75-7.
The Landmark Systems Corporation sells a book UNIX as a Second Language. The book explains UNIX performance tuning in
terms of MVS performance tuning. For more about the book, contact Landmark Systems Corporation, 8000
Towers Crescent Drive, Vienna, VA 22182-2700, Phone: [phone].
Consult the documentation of your collector software for terminology and other suggested reading. Also, select the appropriate
icon for your collector software below for additional information.
Abberviations and Terms for OpenView and NetView:
NVAIX refers to all IBM NetView for AIX components
OVW refers to HP OpenView Windows (a graphical user interface)
NNM refers to HP OpenView Network Node Manager (an application that runs under OVW)
HPOV refers to all HP OpenView products:
OVW
NNM
the collection of background processes (daemons) that these products use.
SNMP host or SNMP management host is a host machine running either HP Open View or IBM NetView for AIX
SNMP management software is either HP Open View software or IBM NetView for AIX software.
For detailed information on HP OpenView Metwork Node Manager or IBM NetView for AIX, please refer to the following
Hewlett Packard or IBM publications: