[Info-vax] DEC server monitoring and alerting

[Rich Jordan]

On May 18, 5:35 pm, "Colin Butcher"
<colinDOT.butche... at xdeltaDOT.coDOT.uk> wrote:
> Something which might help is to have the DECserver advertise itself as a
> LAT service, then if you see the service vanish, you know to go looking. You
> can test for the presence (or absence) of the DECserver LAT service on a VMS
> machine from DCL by using LATCP SHOW SERVICES every so often - and parsing
> the output (or using PIPE).
>
> I've always set DECservers up to do that, then it's easy enough to monitor
> their presence or absence.
>
> --
> Cheers, Colin.
> ---------------------
> Legacy = Stuff that works properly!

Oh, then you could have that DCL call TCPIP$SNMP_TRAPSND to notify
whatever NMS you're using.  Interesting.