[Info-vax] Is there a way to get OPCOM requests sent to an email address or pager

[sean at obanion.us]

On Wednesday, April 3, 2013 2:34:13 PM UTC-7, tommy... at gmail.com wrote:
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> Is there some way to have OPCOM (or some other process) send notifications to an email address or a pager/mobile phone when there are outstanding operator requests?
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> This is as opposed to having an operator sitting at a console (or checking it from time to time) to find those requests, but instead for the system to more proactively send such notifications to someone who can address them.
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> I have only ever been motivated enough to use DCL to scan down the current OPERATOR.LOG file to detect open OPCOM requests requiring intervention.  This takes longer and longer as OPERATOR.LOG grows and therefore that file has to be reset on some basis to keep the file small enough to scan in a reasonable amount of time, and it also depends on how long it takes for a given request to actually post on OPERATOR.LOG (which can be a few minutes at least).
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> I have not yet scanned the entire COMP.OS.VMS group to see what there might be, so I will take my lumps if I am taking a shortcut and something is already out there.  So if there is - please direct me to it and I will read up.
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> I will keep searching in the mean time...
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> Many thanks!
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> Tommy Noble

ConsoleWorks from TDI and ConsoleManager from CA (I think...) do this and a lot more which makes them expensive.   Console Manager probably still only runs on VMS, where ConsoleWorks does well on other O/S.  One way to help justify the expense is to connect to any / all other devices that have serial ports (even if they are accessed via ILO or other TELNET/SSH) for out of band management as a back door to error discovery and recovery.


Sean