[Info-vax] Is console Management a priority?

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Bill Johnson wrote 2011-10-28 16:02:
> On Oct 24, 3:39 pm, Bill Johnson<baron.pi... at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> On Oct 24, 3:37 pm, Bill Johnson<baron.pi... at gmail.com>  wrote:
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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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>> Also:  If you have a console management solution, how do you use it -
>> what else do wish it could do to make your job easier? If you could
>> make it do one more thing what would that be?
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>> Thanks Much!
>> Bill
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> I was hoping this group would be more active for this question. I cant
> say much more than this - but if console management for OPenVMS was a
> concern and you had a chance to influence TDI and HP - what would you
> tell them?
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> What would you want in a solution?
> -User Interfaces
> -Features
> - Etc
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> You may reply to me personally if you like bill dotjohnsonattdi
> technologies  com
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> or drop a note here simply saying your not interested - that counts as
> well.

Not much input maybe, but...

I/we used the old "Console Manager" sometimes in the early 90's.
Worked OK and it was "good enough" for what we needed then.

There are two main uses as I see it.
- Keeping an on-disk log of console activity.
- Enabling remote access to the console.

The first isn't that important (to me). And if I need a log
of, say, a boot, I attach my laptop and save the output
using Reflection.

The second can easily be solved using a simple terminalserver
attached to the console (serial) port.

And finaly, many modern boxes has various built-in console
features often with direct TCP/IP connectivity.