[Info-vax] Changing SMTP server presented hostname in UCX

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2014-09-09 16:53:46 +0000, Simon Clubley said:

> What configuration interface would you use ?

There isn't one, at present.

The last attempt at unifying system management on OpenVMS was the 
SYSMAN command line tool, if you overlook the TNT / OpenVMS Management 
Station project.

SYSMAN was integrated with VMSINSTAL and some other parts of VMS, but 
the design was found to be problematic in a couple of places, and ended 
up unsupported.

As for the current tool, TCP/IP Services seemingly can't decide how it 
should be managed, whether it is the command line TCPIP tool, the 
TCPIP$LPRSETUP tool, or the TCPIP$CONFIG or TCPIP$IP6_SETUP menus or 
text files such as those for DNS or SMTP.   (When there are 40 pairs of 
startup and shutdown procedures, there appear to be some improvements 
possible for both TCP/IP Services and for VMS itself.)

What I use locally is generally either Server.app or the serveradmin 
command line equivalent, and sometimes an LDAP editor, which deals with 
all of the typical operations of OS X Server.  For cases where that's 
insufficient, tool-specific management or the Unix-level configuration 
files.

But I don't care what existing or new tool might be used here, so long 
as (for instance) there's a central profile for users and 
customizations, for LDAP integration, setting the date and time and 
time zone and enabling or disabling NTP, for entering DNS host names or 
for other details involved in the IP or DECnet or host configurations, 
and a UI that allows me to (for a case such as this) change the host 
name in one spot and have that appropriately reflected in SCS, DECnet, 
IP, that host-specific identifier, and elsewhere.

Server.app does an admirable job of making all this easier, though the 
case it's too simple has sometimes also been made.



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