VMS system monitoring software for HP Openview.

[labadie_1]

Wim, I read

Some tests may take lots of time. E.g. the test to check the highest versions. Writing a C program to do the time consuming things would be more performant.

Use DFU to find the files with version number above 30 000, it will be much faster

[Wim Van den Wyngaert]

Labadie,

One of the goals was not to use extra things. If I use DFU I need to install it everywhere. Also, since it is freeware it is normally not allowed by the bank.

God knows why they didn't include it in VMS anyway ? Some kind of "find" command as in U*** would be welcome.

Wim

[labadie_1]

DFU is good enough to come with Vms, at 7.3-2 or at another version, I do not remember, but I am sure of that. So it is not exactly what I call a freeware, it is written by Vms engineering, and supported.

[labadie_1]

You can install DFU, so that you have the help and so, but just copying dfu.exe to a directory is enough.

[Ian Miller.]

DFU is offically still unsupported freeware even though it is written by sombody at hp. I agree it should be included with VMS and I install it on every system but at present it is not.

Getting back to the original question you want software that monitors your systems and feeds events to HP OVO for AlphaVMS V6.2. As you have discovered your choice is very retricted due to the version of VMS you are running (9 years old). BMC Patrol is one solution I've seen work. You also need to monitor the consoles (can do this from a newer version of VMS). You can roll your own solution also but doing this comprehensively requires significant work. Implementation of any monitoring will be a non-trivial amount of work.

[Gino Castoldi_2]

Hi,

I am looking at a product from Heroix called
RoboMon for OpenVMS. Does anyone have any information,and/or opinions on this product?

10 points to any good answers or ideas.
TIA, Gino

[Ian Miller.]

ROBOMON - not used it personally but colleagues who have used have a good opinion of it. It is a native VMS app (which is a good thing) and will run on your version of VMS.

[Antoniov.]

Here HP page about Openview and some other software
http://h71000.www7.hp.com/openvms/system_management.html

Antonio Vigliotti

[Mobeen_1]

Gino,
I have used BMC Patrol for monitoring OpenVMS systems without any issues for few years now.

Its really easy to use and can be integrated without any issues.

You could download this from BMC website below
http://www.bmc.com

All you would need is ... install the BMC Patrol KM (knowledge Modules) for OpenVMS on your VMS servers and then you can install BMC Console on a XP desktop (running XP server).

The following url points to the products i am talking about
http://www.bmc.com/products/proddocview/0,2832,19052_19429_23134_7060,00.html

regards
Mobeen

[Mobeen_1]

Gino,
You can get all information about RoboMon for OpenVMS at the URL below

http://www.heroix.com/products/detail_robomon.htm

regards
Mobeen