[Info-vax] another HP website fubar

[Neil Rieck]

On Saturday, June 20, 2015 at 1:23:24 PM UTC-4, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> On 2015-06-20 16:47:48 +0000, Neil Rieck said:
> 
> > Okay so it has been a while since HP (or a contractor working for HP) 
> > buggered the OpenVMS website. Today I visited this bookmarked link 
> > http://h71000.www7.hp.com/portability/ which worked as expected. Then I 
> > visited the parent site http://h71000.www7.hp.com only to see "Red Hat 
> > Enterprise Linux Test Page"Neil Rieck
> 
> Yeah; the HPE web site content migration has apparently been restarted. 
>  Seems to have been going for most of this week.  Even the 
> "/go/openvms" URLs are going to weird places, and the documentation URL 
> is depositing me at a generic HPE "Product Support & Troubleshooting" 
> search page with no OpenVMS content apparently available.
> 
> FWIW, the OpenVMS docs are reachable at an alternate web site outside 
> of the old OpenVMS h71000 web site at 
> <http://h30266.www3.hp.com/odl/axpos/opsys/vmsos84/index.html>
> 
> Not that VSI needs any more incentive to get their web site online...
> 
> 
> 
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Thanks for that link because using it allowed me to find this one: http://h30266.www3.hp.com/ODLIndex.asp

Humorous coincidence: This week we racked then powered a brand new Itanium rx2800-i2 purchased from HP. These things come with no manuals, no media, and no installed OS. Now to be fair to HP, two weeks ago they emailed me links to download all the necessary manuals as well as an ISO containing OpenVMS which I had to burn to DVD; no big deal. This rx will not boot the ISO as-is (well, it appears to boot the DVD for several minutes then stops with no messages on the VGA terminal; the message was on the serial console associated with the iLO). So on Friday I was using chapter 4 of "HP Integrity rx2800 i2 Server User Service" to properly install OpenVMS from the DVD. This manual contains a lot of broken links (well, many were broken on Friday but a few seem to be working today, Sunday). The bottom of page-81 instructs the reader to visit http://h71000.www7.hp.com/doc/os84_index.html for additional information, and this link is still dead. 

Okay, enough whining from me because that is why we've got jobs. We are paid to navigate annoyances like this :-)

Neil