[Info-vax] notification upon reboot

[pcoviello at gmail.com]

On Tuesday, February 26, 2013 1:52:23 PM UTC-5, MG wrote:
> On 26-feb-2013 19:42, pcoviello at gmail.com wrote:
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> > I am looking for some ideas as to being notified of a system restarting,
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> > or it even crashing... I am on itaniums running 8.3 1h1. one suggestion
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> > is an email during the startup.  could work, unfortunately knowing the
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> > system was down for 5 hours would have been nice too. :-(
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> Knowing whether it's down or not can be easily diagnosed with something
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> as simple as a regular (well, to name something) TCP/IP 'ping' command
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> to it, or perhaps in conjunction with something like SIM?  What kind of
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> Itanium are they, I assume they have iLO/MP controllers?
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> <http://hp.com/go/hpsim>  (Doesn't run on VMS, but what do you expect
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> from HP?)
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>   - MG


did I miss something? it mentions VMS :-(

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