[Info-vax] notification upon reboot

[Marc Van Dyck]

pcoviello at gmail.com explained :
> hi, 
>
> 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. :-(
>
> thanks
> Paul 

If you have another system to monitor your OpenVMS machine, you can
use a tool like Nagios to monitor it over the network, or a console
management product (like the old polycenter console manager now sold
to Computer Associates) to monitor its console line. If you have a
whole OpenVMS environment (as opposed to just one machine) then you
can use OpenVMS Cockpit Manager. Some info, probably not entirely
uptodate, at http://www.openvms.org/stories.php?story=09/07/22/6425997
I know personally the maintainers of this tool, if you're interested
I can get you in touch.

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Marc Van Dyck