Re: CiscoWorks LMS Very Sloooooow!

From: Joseph Hao (jthao1@hotmail.com)
Date: Tue Sep 02 2003 - 16:52:01 GMT-3


Cool, a mailing list for CW would be great. Put me in.

Joseph

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rene Mendoza" <rene.mendoza@eds.com>
To: "CCIE_Lab Groupstudy List" <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 2:52 PM
Subject: Re: CiscoWorks LMS Very Sloooooow!

> I myself have experienced too many issues with Ciscoworks. Opening a TAC
> case for support normally doesn't result in any progress either. I would
be
> very interested in a mailing list just for this product. I am sure that
we
> could provide a lot better support amongst ourselves. I don't want to be
> too negative about the product because it does have great potential, but
it
> really has major programming issues. I too am running the Windows
version
> which consist of: Windows 2000, 3 gig of ram, 2 2.5 gig processors.
5th
> edition with latest patches.
>
> Brennan_Murphy@NAI.com wrote:
>
> > I've had alot of trouble finding expert advice on the web
> > concerning ciscoworks. Even if you open a TAC case, there's
> > no guarantee that you will get sound advice about how
> > to work through, for example, java errors on the server,etc.
> >
> > I've thought about starting a ciscoworks mailing list or
> > a network management tools mailing list or an enterprise
> > network engineer mailing list. I'm wondering if there is
> > widespread interest in this.
> >
> > Specific to your case though, when you access CW from the
> > server itself is it similarly slow? I personally believe
> > that Ciscoworks is not optimized to work well across
> > a WAN or even in some cases a LAN. I havent pulled a Sniffer
> > out to look at packet traces, etc but that is my pre-investigative
> > conclusion.
> >
> > So, also, in line with your query, I am interested in any
> > advice people have for tweaking Windows or Ciscoworks to
> > run faster, more efficiently. Any advice at all is appreciated.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Joseph Hao [mailto:jthao1@hotmail.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 11:40 AM
> > To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
> > Subject: OT: CiscoWorks LMS Very Sloooooow!
> >
> > Folks,
> >
> > I installed CiscoWorks 2000 LAN Management Solution v2.0 on a Dual
> > Pentium with 2 Gb RAM. The hardware is above Cisco's hardware
> > requirements but for some reason, CiscoWorks is very slow. It takes
> > forever (over 5 minutes) to
> > bring up the topology services Java applets and other applets. (Gives
> > me one
> > more reason to hate Java.)
> >
> > Just for completeness; per chance my server was flaky, I installed it on
> > several different servers with the same slow response. I've search
> > archives and Cisco.com for an explanation but no luck. I did install
> > the Java patch (JRE v1.3.1) that came with the distribution CD, but I
> > get this feeling that I'm missing another patch or something.
> >
> > Does anybody have the same experience? How did you resolve it?
> >
> > Joseph
> >
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