[Info-vax] DEC server monitoring and alerting

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2012-05-16 10.52, Rich Jordan wrote:
> On May 16, 11:55 am, Johnny Billquist<b... at softjar.se>  wrote:
>> On 2012-05-16 08.42, Rich Jordan wrote:
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>>> On May 16, 10:40 am, Johnny Billquist<b... at softjar.se>    wrote:
>>>> On 2012-05-16 07.58, Rich Jordan wrote:
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>>>>> 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.
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>>>>>>       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.
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>>>>>>       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.
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>>>>>>       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.
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>>>>> 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.
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>>>>> We still have several 90M/90m+ units with DNAS and a couple of 700s in
>>>>> regular use.
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>>>> No. DS300 are also LAT only.
>>>> I have one (or two).
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>>>>           Johnny
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>>> One of our customers still has one.  It can support basic telnet and
>>> TCPIP operations; perhaps there were different software versions then.
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>> That would be interesting. Do you know what software they run on theirs
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>> SH1601ENG.SYS being the image I am aware of, and which I'm running...
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>>          Johnny
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> Turns out the customer's DS300 is gone but the info is still online on
> their Alpha.  That was the second to last 'classic' DECserver still in
> use (we still use a DS200 for a dialin/dialout modem here for the
> sites that still make us use a modem!).
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> SH1601ENG.SYS, The installed version is DS3022, DECserver 300 V2.2 and
> I still have release notes for V1.0 and V2.0.  Apparently the V1.0
> release did not include TCPIP capabilities but the V2.0 and subsequent
> did.
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> Here's a link to the DS300 V2.2c SPD:  http://h30266.www3.hp.com/masterindex/spd/spd_00f0995c.txt
> which clearly calls out TCPIP capabilities. Maybe you need to update ;)

Aha! You are right. I'm running V1.0. Anyone know where I could find V2.2c?

	Johnny