OpenView Special Interest Group

In reviewing the event John Owen wrote:

On 15 February OpenView users met at Daresbury Laboratory near Warrington for the inaugural meeting of the HP/Works OpenView Special Interest Group. This group has an interesting genealogy consisting as it does of HP/Works members and OpenView users from UK academic sites. Academia has a long tradition of working together to solve problems and there is a well established informal grouping of network specialists. At about the same time that we in HP/Works were discussing forming an OpenView SIG, this group was formulating similar ideas. It made sense to amalgamate and share expertise from a wide spectrum of user sites and this new group has received the whole-hearted support of HP.

The first meeting, which was offered free of charge to attendees, due to the generosity of Daresbury Laboratory, had a tutorial presentation on the 'Principles of Network Management' from Rob Bradshaw of Daresbury (the SIG Chair), and a sneak preview of the new release of OpenView from Tony Unwin of HP. The afternoon concluded with a round table discussion of points of common interest or concern. This last session was particularly well received and epitomises for me the true strength of SIG meetings - mutual support. It reminded me of Apollo System Admin SIG meetings in days gone by where we would set the whole day aside with no fixed agenda and simply bounce ideas around the table.

Further meetings of the OpenView SIG are planned for later in the year and I sense it will go from strength to strength.