Year 2000 Compliance Overview
OpenMaster

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OpenMaster is the world's most scalable and widely deployed secure enterprise management software suite. OpenMaster provides large enterprises with a complete solution for the secure management of multi-vendor IT networks, systems, and applications, thereby helping the IT infrastructure to support the enterprise's business strategies and processes.

Life cycle status

OpenMaster version 4.54 is the earliest supported version.
OpenMaster version 4.53 and earlier are outside their support period and are not Year 2000-ready.

For more information, please see the OpenMaster website or contact your usual OpenMaster representative.

Testing status

Bull products have undergone a full range of tests to ensure that the transition into the new millennium is performed properly. The results of these tests are published in the Bull Year 2000 Compliance catalog.

Services

Your usual OpenMaster representative will be pleased to discuss the different Year 2000 related services available.

Compliance catalog

We have organized the OpenMaster Year 2000 Compliance Catalog in 2 parts :

  • OpenMaster, AccessMaster and OpenMaster for Telecom
  • OpenMaster Partner Applications

OpenMaster, AccessMaster and OpenMaster for Telecom

Product code Name Version (*) Year 2000 Ready Change
  OpenMaster 5.1 + SP2 OK (1) New
  OpenMaster 5.1 + SP1 OK (1) New
  OpenMaster 5.0 + SP4 OK (1) New
  OpenMaster 5.0 + SP3 OK (1) New
  OpenMaster 5.0 + SP2 OK (1) New
  OpenMaster 5.0 + SP1 OK (1) (2) New
  OpenMaster 4.54 + SP4 OK (1) Update
  OpenMaster 4.54 + SP3 OK (1) (3) Update
  OpenMaster 4.54 + SP2 No (1) (4) Update
  OpenMaster 4.54 + SP1 No (1) (4) Update

Note : SP means Service Pack.

(1) Prerequisites for OpenMaster Year 2000 readiness :
     - Year 2000 readiness of overall hardware configuration including hardware platform on which OpenMaster is running as well as hardware of managed systems.
     - Year 2000 readiness of all basic software including operating systems running in conjunction with OpenMaster as well as the basic software of managed systems.

(2) Our records indicate that all users of version 5.0 have installed Service Pack 2 or later, and we do not plan further tests on Service Pack 1.

(3) Year 2000 Readiness requires the installation of individual fixes or Service Pack 4 for Open Master version 4.54.

(4) Year 2000 Readiness requires the installation of Service Pack 4 for Open Master version 4.54 or a migration to OpenMaster version 5.0 or higher.

OpenMaster Partner Applications

Partner Applications Version Year 2000 Ready Change
3Com Transcend Enterprise Manager for Unix 5.0 OK (6) Update
Bay Networks Network Management System 8.1 OK July 31, 1998
Bay Networks Optivity Analysis 8.0 OK Sept 30, 1998
Bay Networks Optivity Planning 8.0 OK Sept 30, 1998
BMC Patrol on Unix platforms 3.2.05 OK Sept 7, 1999
BMC Patrol on Windows NT platforms 3.2.06 OK Sept 7, 1999
Bull Pilot 4.0 OK July 31, 1998
Bull EpochBackup 3.5 OK July 31, 1998
Cisco CiscoWorks 4.0 OK July 31, 1998
Cisco CiscoView 4.1 OK Sept 30, 1998
Cisco CWSI 2.1 OK Sept 30, 1998
ForeSystems Foreview 4.2 OK July 31, 1998
IISG Wingz 2.5 OK New
Legato Networker 4.2.5 OK (2) May 20, 1999
MTI Backup Unet 3.5.2 OK (1) July 31, 1998
Oracle Oracle 7.3.4 OK (3) May 20, 1999
Orsyp Job Scheduler 4.3.0F OK (5) Dec. 10, 1999
PS'Soft Qualiparc 6.2 OK Sept 30, 1998
Remedy ARS Trouble Ticketing 3.0 OK (4) June 15, 1999
Technically Elite Inc. Meterware 2.3.4 OK July 31, 1998

(1) Backup Unet 3.5.2 is not supported with OpenMaster 4.54. Possible migration to Legato Networker, please contact your usual OpenMaster representative.

(2) Year 2000 readiness requires patch 19 on Networker 4.2.5, patch 10 on Networker 5.0 and no patch on Networker 5.5. More detailed Y2K information is available on the Legato website.

(3) More detailed Y2K information is available on the Oracle website.

(4) ARS 3.0.1 Year 2000 readiness requires the application of patches 688 and 732. ARS 3.2.1 Year 2000 readiness requires the application of patches 689 and 732.  These patches can be downloaded from Remedy support website.  ARS 4.0.1 is Year 2000 ready without patches. More detailed Y2K information is available on the Remedy website.

(5) Year 2000 readiness requires the application of fix 2684 on Job Scheduler version 4.3.0F. Information source : Orsyp.

(6) For customers using StatusWatch Web reporter, Transcend NCS 5.0 requires a patch: P0198 for Solaris, P0199 for HP-UX and P0200 for AIX. More detailed information is available on the 3Com website.

 

Index

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Without frames: [ Overview | Chairman's message | Year 2000 Program | Recommandations | Commitments | Assistance 2000 | Watch 2000 | Change history |  Other useful sites ]
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Notice
Bull is making every effort to provide accurate and explicit information on the Year 2000 readiness of its products. The information on this page reflects the current results of our compliance tests and may be updated as testing continues. Please see the Bull Year 2000 Compliance Overview for an explanation of the terms used and our commitments.

Year 2000 Information and Readiness Disclosure Statements
Information contained on Bull past and present Year 2000 Internet Website pages regarding products and services offered by Bull are "Year 2000 Readiness Disclosures" as defined by the Year 2000 Information and Readiness Disclosure Act of 1998, (The United States of America's Public Law 105-271, 112 Stat. 2386) enacted on October 19, 1998. Bull Year 2000 Internet website pages have been and will continue to be our primary mechanism for communicating year 2000 information.

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