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

[Kerry Main]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Info-vax [mailto:info-vax-bounces at info-vax.com] On Behalf Of
> Stephen Hoffman via Info-vax
> Sent: 11-Jan-16 11:05 AM
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> Cc: Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid>
> Subject: Re: [New Info-vax] Some questions on software for VMS 7.3
> VAX (Stephen Hoffman)
> 

[snip]

> 
> > As an example - few groups understand that you need an Operations
> > Bridge function that takes events, alerts etc. from many tools, filters
> > them, correlates them and then does smart processing to determine if
> > events  are symptoms or causes of the issue.
> 
> Who isn't running something like syslog or syslog-ng or related for a
> production network, after all?   Other than smaller-scale OpenVMS users
> — who have to port and integrate those tools — that is.
> 
> The inability to easily integrate OpenVMS into networks makes new
> OpenVMS deployments into existing heterogeneous environments
> more
> effort.
> 
While I agree OpenVMS needs improvements, let's not try and say that
integrating Windows with Linux and Solaris and Cisco server alarms is 
easy either. 

Case in point - SNMP service on Windows servers is off by default. In 
addition, while it was raised previously here as a knock against VNS,
SNMP V3 is not supported on Windows platforms either. 

[Google SNMP V3 Windows 2012]

[snip]

> It's often in short supply because the current messy solution works
> well enough that the more efficient and elegant and integrated solution
> isn't viewed as a benefit to justify the expenses.   Management gets
> paid to make trade-offs, and — for more than a few decisions — all the
> choices can be bad.
> 

Current drivers are senior business types who are frustrated with the old 
way of internal IT where end users have to call and tell IT there is an issue 
with something. Business types are asking "why can't IT be more proactive 
and notify us that there is something that has failed and what services are 
impacted?"

Maintaining the old way of reactive IT (each group doing their own tools)
is a great way to get out-sourced or, using today's hype, "moved to a public 
cloud" which is just another name for selective IT outsourcing.

[snip]

Regards,

Kerry Main
Kerry dot main at starkgaming dot com