Hewlett-Packard Co has introduced a new version of its HP OpenView Network Management server software for Sun Microsystems Inc workstations, the first version for a non-Hewlett computer. The network manager is part of the company’s NewWave Computing strategy designed to facilitate the building of networks that make computing resources easier to find, share, use and manage. The company also announced that existing HP-UX-based network and systems-management applications can now be integrated without additional programming; OpenView now manages multivendor Simple Network Management Protocol devices without additional programming; the HP LANProbe system is integrated under OpenView Network Management Server software; SNMP data is put up on MS-DOS machines and there is an SNMP-based agent for Apollo systems; and Windows 3.0 is now supported in OpenView Windows. The OpenView Network Management Server end-user software for Sun is $7,000.
