Customer Reviews

Building Network Management Tools with Tcl/Tk

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4 star:		(1)
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I definitely wish that every technical book was as well researched and written as this one is. If you're trying to build a network management application using TCL/Tk, this book is invaluable. Watch out for two things, however: The Scotty examples are using a pre-release 3.0 version of TNM, while most of us in the real world are using the non-commercial 2.1.9 version, so the examples don't work exactly as shown. Also, the website that the book directs you to doesn't have all of the code discussed in the book. Despite these few flaws, it's still worth five stars in my opinion.

This book offers many Tcl examples to show network discovery, status monitoring, etc. If you are looking to build concise, custom mgmt tools to meet your specific needs, Tcl/Tk and this book will get you well on your way.

The accompanying web site is unreachable. Most examples are based on a commercial package (TicleMan)

I failed to get the example source codes listed in the book by following the exact instructions of the book. In addition, I can't contact auther for this.

I believe this book deserves a 5 stars rating. But you cannot get the examples with the provided username and password. This means wasting time which avoiding it is the reason for buying this book from the beginning.