Any Ideas?

[Gerry Tully]

I have recently purchased 2 N-Class systems to be used for our Production and Developement servers for Oracle. The Developement server doesn't even come close to using the available resources. All of our other servers exchange,web,firewalls, etc.are NT based Compaqs. Any ideas on what other applications or integrations I could use the N-class server for to take advantage of it's un-used capabilities? By the way, we connect our laptops to the HP servers through Reflections. Thanks.

[Andy Monks]

You could always use the N-Class as a fileserver using Samba. It's a bit overkill, but it works and is transparent to the PC.

[Andy Monks]

And one silly idea is, that you could search for Aliens!!

http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/

It's the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence and you can help analyse the data on your idle cpus :-)

Andy

[Dave Wherry]

Waht is the application you're running against the Oracle engine?
You could use the Dev. box as an application server to run batch jobs against the Production box.
What is your backup strategy? If you are using OmniBack you could make the Dev. box the Cell Server.
Setup an Ignite server on it to manage your patches.
Send it to me if it's overkill for you.

[Andreas Voss · Accepted solution]

Hi,

you could also use your N-Class as a web server with e. g. apache:
http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Networking/WWW/apache-1.3.12/

Regards

Andrew

[Dale McNamara]

If you are running oracle databases, you could use your development server as the Enterprise Manager Repository (if you are using the Oracle Enterprise Manager utilities).
The newer versions of these tools require one (ver 2.04 and later) although the earlier versions make use of one.
What this basically consists of is an oracle instance that is utilized to store performance data, as well as scheduled jobs and configurations, etc.

Also, if you are using any MS Access database applications in your office, you could migrate them to an oracle database (Oracle has Access migration tools for this) and then still utilize Access as the front end (with correct ODBC drivers from Oracle).