[Info-vax] notification upon reboot

[MG]

On 26-feb-2013 19:42, pcoviello at gmail.com wrote:
> I am looking for some ideas as to being notified of a system restarting,
> or it even crashing... I am on itaniums running 8.3 1h1. one suggestion
> is an email during the startup.  could work, unfortunately knowing the
> system was down for 5 hours would have been nice too. :-(

Knowing whether it's down or not can be easily diagnosed with something
as simple as a regular (well, to name something) TCP/IP 'ping' command
to it, or perhaps in conjunction with something like SIM?  What kind of
Itanium are they, I assume they have iLO/MP controllers?

<http://hp.com/go/hpsim>  (Doesn't run on VMS, but what do you expect
from HP?)

  - MG