[Info-vax] notification upon reboot

[Paul Sture]

In article <512d046a$0$582$e4fe514c at dreader34.news.xs4all.nl>,
 MG <marcogbNO at SPAMxs4all.nl> wrote:

> 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?

When I was managing a bunch of VMS boxes I would log on to each using
SET HOST via a command procedure.  The essential elements of it were 
these two commands.

$ set host 'p1'
$ show time

Thus if one of those systems died I would be able to see at what date 
and time that had happened.  It would have been a fairly minor 
programming exercise to add things like changing the colour of desktop 
icons for those sessions, updating status files etc, but I had other 
tools at my disposal, including ConsoleWorks.

Note that I tried a similar solution using TCP/IP Services TELNET and 
SSH, but when a system died these didn't return control to the client in 
the prompt way that SET HOST does.

Depending on the real scope of this requirement ConsoleWorks or similar 
solutions may be appropriate or total overkill.

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

-- 
Paul Sture