[Info-vax] DEC server monitoring and alerting

[John E. Malmberg]

On 5/17/2012 7:11 PM, David Froble wrote:
> John E. Malmberg wrote:
>> On 5/16/2012 3:39 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
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> Ah, yes, the good old days of "which MOP server" will win the race ...

And unexpected upgrades/downgrades because on some test machine an older 
version was present.

It did not help that the documentation incorrectly implied that the NCP 
MOP database settings for the download image where actually used by 
anything at all.

> How you doing these days John ?

While I am not working with VMS professionally, I am doing reasonably 
well in the network optimization space doing QA work for Riverbed.com.

The company is hiring and I get a significant bonus for anyone that I 
refer that gets hired in the QA or Engineering group, and they are 
looking for people with networking, perl, python, c++, c#, and related 
skills.  Home office is in San Francisco, California with engineering 
sites in at least two other cities, and there are engineering offices in 
Champaign, Illinois, Cambridge (Mass and England), and Greenbelt, Md.

One extra perk is that while there currently is no VMS use inside of the 
company, it is an Alliance One member, so employees can get access to 
patches and other company Alliance One benefits.

I am currently and a bit slowly trying to get Bash 4.2 + current patches 
to run on VMS.  I have been documenting my progress on the gnv-develop 
mailing list, and keeping the CVS repository for GNV up to date with 
each significant milestone, just in case anyone else wants to help.  I 
think I only have one major issue to resolve and a lot of small issues. 
  I am currently getting the small issues resolved before going back to 
fix the major one.

Bill Pedersen and I are also trying to get a vms-ports project on 
sourceforge started to assist in doing opensource porting and to provide 
another mirror for many of the existing VMS download sites.
As we are both pretty busy, so far we do not have much done.

Regards,
-John