As expected, AT&T Corp has signed for Hewlett-Packard Co’s OpenView network management system, which will feature in a new, integrated network systems management package it’s preparing, called OneVision. AT&T will combine OpenView with its own BaseWorX system and other third party software in OneVision for Unix and NT. Its aim is to create a single environment that can be used by its telecommunications and computing customers as well as by AT&T internally. To start the ball rolling, Hewlett-Packard is putting its OpenView Network Node Manager up on AT&T Unix hardware from the fourth quarter – and under NT during the second half of next year. AT&T’s current network management system, StarSentry Systems Manager, uses NetLabs Inc’s eponymous distributed network system. To enable StarSentry users to migrate up to the OpenView-based OneVision, Hewlett-Packard has followed the likes of SunSoft Inc to NetLabs Inc’s door and licensed the Los Altos, California company’s DiMONS 3G NerveCenter event correlation system and migration tools for use as an application in a version of the HP OpenView Network Node Manager due mid-1995. In the interim, NetLabs will from September begin offering a version of NerveCenter that co-exists and integrates with the current Network Node Manager 3.3. NetLabs, which aims to become an applications company rather than a framework provider just as soon as it can, will develop migration tools to help users move applications across.
