[Info-vax] Is console Management a priority?

[GerMarsh]

On Oct 29, 9:15 am, Marc Van Dyck <marc.gr.vand... at invalid.skynet.be>
wrote:
> Bill Johnson wrote on 24/10/2011 :
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> > All:
> > Why is console Management for Openvms a priority or not? Especially
> > with the Itanium MP console - and with Virtual VMS.. Why would you
> > care? Is it a security issue, compliance issue, operations issue or
> > simply you what to know what comes off it? I'm really interested in
> > your thoughts.
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> > Those of you that know me know that I am very interested and provide a
> > Console Management solution, ConsoleWorks that runs on OpenVMS.  As we
> > continue to support the product and actually build out capability for
> > console management - I am interested in why you believe its important
> > and why you need it. Those thoughts help TDI build out our roadmap and
> > product feature set.
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> > Thanks in Advance!!
> > Bill Johnson
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> > nine seven 2 eight ate won one fife five three  office
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> For me it sure is critical. Working in the finance industry, capturing
> and recording all what happens on the console interface is essential.
> Getting access to the console from our desktop devices, or even
> remotely
> (from home, from a portable over 3G connectivity, whatever) is
> essential
> too. And we even use it for automation : as an example, requests for
> mounting tapes are trapped from the console and transmitted to the
> tape robot manager to mount them automatically, and that kind of
> things.
> So it is definitely something I would have a lot of difficulties to
> live without.
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> In order to achieve that we currently use this :http://www.open-vms.nl/COCKPIT.pdf
> It is marketted by a third party company but the maintainers are
> HP employees based in Belgium. I do not know whether it has gained
> much audience overseas, but in Europe, quite a lot of OpenVMS shops
> are using it.
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> Before that, we were using the set of Polycenter products. Cockpit has
> replaced Console Manager and Watchdog. We still use the ex-polycenter
> - now from CA - products for performance and scheduling.
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We've been using Itheon's iAM:Consoles (I know it's a daft name!) -
was Robocentral - for many years for string detection and remote
access.

It's done a sterling job and interfaces to the alerting system quite
neatly.