[Info-vax] DEC server monitoring and alerting

[Rich Jordan]

On May 16, 9:04 am, koeh... at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob
Koehler) wrote:
> In article <fff401b5-a37e-4f10-820a-ca7e2dd75... at l5g2000vbo.googlegroups.com>, John Wallace <johnwalla... at yahoo.co.uk> writes:
>
>
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> > There are lots of other options too, given more info on your actual
> > interests. TSM, as suggested by Henry, is a good one which *should*
> > work on a DECserver 100.
>
>    Well, TSM should work on any product described as a "terminal server"
>    that comes under the category DECserver.  But without more
>    information from the OP I can't even tell which protocol is important
>    to him.
>
>    IIRC, DECserver 100 only supported LAT, but later models supported
>    TCP/IP, and it's possible that only TCP/IP is important to the OP.
>
>    Meanwhile, programming something in DCL is probably unreasonable,
>    but there are likely to be DCL commands that can get close enough.
>    And the OP expressed an interest in storing something in a file
>    without giving a clear concept of what data and how it would be used.

DECserver 100 and 200 (and I think 250) were LAT only.  90 and 90L are
also LAT only and with restricted management (menu based).  DECserver
300 and 90TL supported basic TCPIP, and 700/900 series plus 90M and 90M
+ had basic TCPIP and (in some units optional, others standard) DNAS,
which provided much more capability.   I'm not sure about the various
chassis based 5xx series units; we never saw or worked with them.

We still have several 90M/90m+ units with DNAS and a couple of 700s in
regular use.