[Info-vax] Is console Management a priority?

[Marc Van Dyck]

Bill Johnson wrote on 24/10/2011 :
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
>
> Thanks in Advance!!
> Bill Johnson
>
> nine seven 2 eight ate won one fife five three  office

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.

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.

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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Marc Van Dyck