[Info-vax] notification upon reboot

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2013-02-26 18:42:59 +0000, pcoviello at gmail.com said:

> 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. :-(

ping or snmp is typical here, whether via a service such as pingdom (if 
the host is externally reachable), or via other locally-installed tools.
If you want the local OpenVMS host to do this, roll some DCL at reboot, 
and check SYS$COMMON:[SYSERR]CLUE$HISTORY.DAT for data.
There's probably a tool or three for this purpose in the DECUS archives 
(digiater.nl, decuslib.com, etc), too.


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