Availability Manager V2.5/DECamds V7.3-2B product announcement

[Barry Kierstein]

The Availability Manager team is pleased to announce the Availability Manager Version 2.5. This version includes updates to both Data Analyzer and Data Collector kits.

New features in the Availability Manager Version 2.5 include the following:

- The Data Analyzer now runs on I64 systems.

- OPCOM is now notified of events when they are posted.

- Events are forwarded to the OpenView Server, where they can be viewed.

- New customization features include:
o Groups or nodes can be blocked from a display.
o Icons show levels of customization in dialog box.

- New Help has been added to the AMDS$STARTUP procedure.


Problems corrected in AM V2.5 include the following:

- Data Collector kits now save user customizations of AMDS$LOGICALS.COM and AMDS$DRIVER_ACCESS.DAT files.

- The Cluster page has a number of updates and fixes to correct
reported problems.

- The formatting of the System Overview Window for OpenVMS has been improved to increase readability.


The Availability Manager team is also pleased to announce the release of DECamds Version 7.3-2B. This version contains a couple of bugfixes:

- Double-clicking on a process occasionally caused an ACCVIO error.

- The IVP portion of the installation procedure would sometimes hang.


The Availability Manager and DECamds kits can be obtained from the following web site:

www.hp.com/products/openvms/availabilitymanager


Thank you for using our products. Let us know if you have any questions.

The Availability Manager Team
OpenVMS Engineering