[Info-vax] Some questions on software for VMS 7.3 VAX (Stephen Hoffman)

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2016-01-11 01:36:38 +0000, Kerry Main said:

>> More recently, HPE is getting entirely out of the OpenVMS business.
>> 
> 
> 
> Actually, it looks like HPE is getting out of anything not based on 
> X86-64 and that includes HP-UX and Non-Stop.


Ignoring The Machine, the HPE folks are now (publicly) interested in RISC-V:

http://riscv.org
HPE UEFI: http://riscv.org/workshop-jan2016/Tues1415%20RISC-V%20and%20UEFI.pdf

They've dabbled some with ARM in the ProLiant line, including the HPE 
ProLiant m400 server cartridge.   Not that they seem to be pushing all 
that much ARM server gear lately, and the HPE Edgeline stuff — where 
you'd expect to see some ARM-based boxes — has been marketed as a 
partnership between HPE and Intel.


> Case in point - HPE's new Server Mgmt product that replaces HP SIM and  
> other similar HP server HW mgmt. and monitoring utilities is called 
> "HPE  OneView". OneView ONLY supports specific ProLiant blade, rack 
> servers  running Windows or Linux and HPE storage and some network 
> switches.

That's not new.   The HPE vendor monitoring tools and error-processing 
tools and related seem to get rebranded or replaced every three to five 
years or so.   Not that DEC and Compaq didn't also change out these and 
related tools, too.   Not that open-source tools also don't get 
shuffled around or abandoned, as well.      As for server monitoring, 
more than a few folks are using some combination of Nagios/Icinga, 
Cacti, Groundwork, Zabbix, Munin, OpenNMS, or otherwise.   There were 
Nagios NRPE bits for OpenVMS, and likely some others.





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