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

[BillPedersen]

On Friday, April 5, 2013 10:53:20 AM UTC-4, Paul Sture wrote:
> In article <39b43a83-7818-45b2-bf8f-5fa86a4ff9ab at googlegroups.com>,
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>  sean at obanion.us wrote:
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> > On Wednesday, April 3, 2013 2:34:13 PM UTC-7, tommy... at gmail.com wrote:
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> > > Hi folks!
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> > ConsoleWorks from TDI and ConsoleManager from CA (I think...) do this and a 
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> > lot more which makes them expensive.   Console Manager probably still only 
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> > runs on VMS, where ConsoleWorks does well on other O/S.  One way to help 
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> > justify the expense is to connect to any / all other devices that have serial 
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> > ports (even if they are accessed via ILO or other TELNET/SSH) for out of band 
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> > management as a back door to error discovery and recovery.
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> I have used ConsoleWorks and found it a good solution, but it wasn't 
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> cheap.  IIRC the more connections you have the more expensive it 
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> becomes, and the annual maintenance was something like 30% of the 
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> initial licence price, which struck me as high in comparison with other 
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> products I have used.  However, support was excellent and the 
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> enhancement requests I submitted were swiftly implemnted, so you 
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> actually got something for that.
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> Paul Sture

I believe there is now a hobbyist version of ConsoleWorks available...  Not sure where the application is or not but it would be a way of checking it out.