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

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In article <bzl52-361545.14410514032009 at forte.easynews.com>, ZL <bzl52 at copper.net> writes:
>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?

I can tell you one that would never run Weendoze.  


>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.

I'll take a look at this... on VMS of course.  I can't imagine the 
ethernet component being that difficult on Linux.  If they did it on
WEENDOZE, c'mon.

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