Managing @ monitoring utility

[Alon Jacob]

Hi all.

I'm looking for a freeware tool for windows to allow people to perform daily tasks on a VMS machine (such as mon sys, sh dev, init tapes etc.) without having to telnet it and type VMS commands.

Can anyone send me a URL or file?

[Wim Van den Wyngaert]

If you install WASD you can use HTTP. There are a number of simple scripts included but you'll need to write a lot yourself (or download it from the net).

In this way I created a html form in which you enter nodename, username, password and command. The http server can execute the command on the correct node and then return the output to internet explorer. But it is too complex and specific to just post it.

Wim

[Keith Cayemberg]

Hi Alon,

most third party monitoring/management solutions for OpenVMS are commercial, and have a price tag. I supose this may be since OpenVMS already comes with many basic monitoring and management utilities for the DCL command line.

I have included an HTML attachment with links to the OpenVMS solutions known to me under software catagories which I believe you would be interested in.

For free solutions, I suggest you look at Nagios.

The OpenVMS Management Station may also interest you, although its spectrum of functionality is limited to managing accounts, printers and storage.

Of course there are the native DECamds and Availability Manager Tools as well.

Cheers!

Keith Cayemberg

[Robert Atkinson]

Alon, I'd be tempted to go with Wim's suggestion of running Webserver scripts.

We use CSWS (Apache) as it's fully supported, rather than WASD (WASD is a lot better though and Mark Daniels is brilliant).

You'll also need a copy of the CGIUTL executable.

Once you have that, everything else is very easy DCL, and is customisable to exactly what you need.

Here's a small example to show you how easy it is :-

$ !
$ CGIUTL /URLDECODE /SYMBOLS /OUTPUT=SYS$TEMP:OPSHELP_'PID'.TMP
$ TYPE SYS$TEMP:OPSHELP_'PID'.TMP /OUT=SYS$TEMP:OPSHELP2_'PID'.TMP
$ !
$! SH SYM CGIUTL*
$ !
$ IF CGIUTL_SUBMIT .EQS. "Print Data"
$ THEN
$ PRINT /FORM=OCE_LANDSCAPE /NOIDENTIFY /FLAG /NOTE="JEAN BEAMAN (OPSCHARGES)" SYS$TEMP:OPSHELP2_'PID'.TMP
$ PRINT /FORM=OCE_LANDSCAPE /NOIDENTIFY /FLAG /NOTE="SUE CREES (OPSCHARGES)" SYS$TEMP:OPSHELP2_'PID'.TMP
$ MESSAGE1 = "The charge for publisher ''CGIUTL_PUB'''CGIUTL_PC' has"
$ MESSAGE2 = "been sucessfully printed to the Oce's"
$ ENDIF
$ !
$ WRITE SYS$OUTPUT MESSAGE1
$ WRITE SYS$OUTPUT MESSAGE2
$ EXIT

[Wim Van den Wyngaert]

You can also run TNG PA in batch and produce performance reports that can be consulted by IE. You could do this every 15 minutes or so.

Check this thread but start at the end
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=609077

But no free lunch ... you will have some work to do for doing the setup.

Wim

[Jan van den Ende]

Alon,

From your Forum Profile:


I have assigned points to 12 of 108 responses to my questions.


Maybe you can find some time to do some assigning?

Mind, I do NOT say you necessarily need to give lots of points. It is fully up to _YOU_ to decide how many. If you consider an answer is not deserving any points, you can also assign 0 ( = zero ) points, and then that answer will no longer be counted as unassigned.
Consider, that every poster took at least the trouble of posting for you!

To easily find your streams with unassigned points, click your own name somewhere.
This will bring up your profile.
Near the bottom of that page, under the caption â My Question(s)â you will find â questions or topics with unassigned points â Clicking that will give all, and only, your questions that still have unassigned postings.

Thanks on behalf of your Forum colleagues.

PS. â nothing personal in this. I try to post it to everyone with this kind of assignment ratio in this forum. If you have received a posting like this before â please do not take offence â none is intended!

Proost.