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Installing netman on NT4 server

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by jneag

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Needing a little bit o help here. Unfortunately Google is not my friend with this question.

I'm needing to find out how to install netman on an NT4 SP6a server. One of our apps installs its own service. This service depends on netman. But, for some reason netman is not on this system.

I thought that reinstalling TCP/IP might work, but it didn't. I've also tried NetBEUI and IPX/SPX. No go there. Each time I reboot the server (I'm rebuilding it by the way.) I get the "Could not start the service..." with Event ID 7003: The AthCTP service depends on the following nonexistant service: Netman."

Any ideas on how to install Netman would be MOST appreciated.

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by stress junkie

OK I went to the web page that you mentioned. I noticed that it is for IBM Tivoli software. I'm guessing that you already picked up on this. So I poked around, found the IBM products page, then went to the Tivoli products page. It wasn't as easy as it sounds. So the Tivoli products page is here

http://www-306.ibm.com/software/tivoli/solutions/availability/products.html

Have a look at the different products. Maybe your application is one of these Tivoli products. If it isn't I'm curious to know what the application on your computer that needs netman is.

by jneag

Nope, not one of those products. This is a library automation (ya know, check in and out) program called Athena and is made by Sagebrush. They're looking into the problem as well, but they're not getting anywhere.

Thing is, this product is working on 120 other NT4 servers without this problem. So far only 2 are effected and I hope it stays that way. My guess is is that they wrote this program on/for W2K and didn't take into consideration that some companies (especially educational) still use NT4. The only references I've found for the netman service is for W2K and up. Kinda odd.

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