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

[Simon Clubley]

On 2009-03-14, ZL <bzl52 at copper.net> wrote:
> 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.
>

Thanks for the feedback, Bart.

Unfortunately, I run a Linux desktop because it's much more functional and
efficient than a Windows desktop, and I am not going to switch to Windows
just to run one secondary application.

However, I may try running it under Wine at some point to see if I get
anywhere with that approach.

If that doesn't work, than all that's going to happen here is that I just
won't bother any further with it as I've managed just fine without it
until now.

Simon.

PS: As for my signature, what I am trying to say is that while other operating
systems focus on improving their core functionality using current techniques,
Windows development seems to focus on making the UI look pretty or different
from the previous version and seems to consider using modern technologies on
the core functionality to be a secondary goal.

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