[Info-vax] DEC server monitoring and alerting

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2012-05-17 02.01, Hans Vlems wrote:
> On 16 mei, 17:40, 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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> A DS300 will do IP and Telne.
> The DS 500 series was targeted at the IBM mainframe world, it provided
> reverse LAT services to an IBM cluster controller.
> Hans

IP was added in version 2 of the software to the DS300.
Reverse LAT is a separate story, and works just fine on DS200 as well.

	Johnny