[comp.dcom.lans] Management and support software info request

gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston) (01/29/91)

In accordance with the apparent attitude around here of keeping up with
last decades' technology ( :-) ) I have been task with looking into the
following items, as we try to network this place together:

	WAN, LAN, or both, management software. Preferrably not too
	  expensive; less than a thousand or so $US. SNMP would be
	  real nice. Current requirements will be two or three nets
	  in separate plants, eventually expanding (I hope) to 20 or
	  so facilities worldwide.

	X.400 and X.500 software, running under UNIX, NOVELL, or as
	  a last resort, DOS. A dedicated DOS system would be acceptable,
	  since I don't have to buy 286 machines--we're overloaded with
	  them for other reasons.

	Any good books on large network design, setup, and management
	  would be REAL useful; we're teaching ourselves how to do
	  this as we go.

E-mail or post as you wish; I try to read this group daily.

Thanks a bunch!



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