[Info-vax] Availability Manager, was: Re: Production VMS cluster hanging with lots of LEFO

[ZL]

I don't think the engineer that supports AM watches this group, and I
don't work for HP anymore, so none of this is "official" (as if anything 
in this news groups would ever be "official"). However, this question 
has come up in sessions I've done with him, so I'm pretty
sure I know the answer.

Although the current AM analyzer is written in Java and is very portable,
there is one part that is operating system dependant, and that's the
part that talks to the Ethernet driver.  HP has code that does this on
OpenVMS and Windows.  They don't have the appropriate interface
for any of the Unix variants (various vendor's Unixes, Linuxes, or
OS X).  I don't think HP has the resources at the moment to get someone
to write the appropriate code, and I doubt if anyone in HP management
thinks it would be a good investment.  How many customers are going
to run AM on something other than Windows or OpenVMS, and if more
customers could, would it sell more systems or support contracts?

If any of you can come up with a good business case, then you can try
presenting it to HP management.  If they can make money on it, they
might do it.

Bart.