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тАО07-18-2005 12:20 AM
тАО07-18-2005 12:20 AM
The problem is that we have a primary site and a (very distant; 500 miles+) backup site. After too many budget cuts, I now manage both sites, but since I don't yet have a split personality, I can't be both places at once.
This is a military personnel system, so we are not allowed to run KVM (Keyboard/Video/Mouse) switching through the firewalls. That rules out doing it via networking operations and a KVM connection, not that we had one set up anyway. So either I have to be there or I have to figure out how to do it remotely. The site manager is good about this but his staff has also been cut so that he has no regular operations staff. And he gets called to meetings a LOT. So I can't always rely on him to be there when I need him.
We are in the process of trying to upgrade to OVMS 7.3-2. I have made bootable copies of our system disk during our last trip (due to hurricane Dennis), but now I'm back at the primary site. Rather than having to travel 550 miles+ just to do an alternate-device reboot, is there a way to just reset the selected reboot device while still talking to a running copy of OpenVMS?
I'm thinking of SYSGEN or SYSMAN commands, if I recall the event correctly. But like I said, it has been years since I had to use this. Can anyone help me or has this incredibly useful feature been removed since the last time I used it?
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тАО07-18-2005 12:41 AM
тАО07-18-2005 12:41 AM
Re: Reset reboot device remotely
"set bootdef_dev ..."
and then "c" for continue.
Never did it on production because of possible time-outs.
Know no other ways on alpha (shame that they didn't implement that yet, Sun has).
Wim
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тАО07-18-2005 12:51 AM
тАО07-18-2005 12:51 AM
Re: Reset reboot device remotely
That is the command I would use if I were at the console. I need something when I am 550 miles away from the console.
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тАО07-18-2005 12:59 AM
тАО07-18-2005 12:59 AM
SolutionAttached is a program that will set various console
environment variables. I haven't tried it and I
don't recall exactly from where I got it (probably
on comp.os.vms somewhere). I rember there was another
very similar program also. You will likely have to
modify it to do exactly what you want.
Good luck.
Dave.
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тАО07-18-2005 01:05 AM
тАО07-18-2005 01:05 AM
Re: Reset reboot device remotely
I'll try the web search of the site you named.
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тАО07-18-2005 01:11 AM
тАО07-18-2005 01:11 AM
Re: Reset reboot device remotely
The attachement was a C program...
When you say it had nothing to do with VMS, what
exactly were you getting?
I have attached a ZIPped version here.
Dave
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тАО07-18-2005 01:57 AM
тАО07-18-2005 01:57 AM
Re: Reset reboot device remotely
When I downloaded the file and unzipped it on my Windows workstation, it gave me a .C file, but when I tried to read the file, it is all special characters. Nothing comes through that is readable.
The previous site looked like a health-food advertisement or dietary supplement site.
Thanks for trying, but I still don't know what is going on here. I'll search some more.
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тАО07-18-2005 02:13 AM
тАО07-18-2005 02:13 AM
Re: Reset reboot device remotely
I access this site using VMS 8.2, Mozilla 1.7-8
and DO NOT have or use Windows. If you transfer
the ZIP file to a VMS box and unzip on VMS you
should get what you are after.
Dave
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тАО07-18-2005 04:35 AM
тАО07-18-2005 04:35 AM
Re: Reset reboot device remotely
Now if I only had a C compiler... Ada can probably do this. Look out, Alpha, here I come!
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тАО07-18-2005 06:28 AM
тАО07-18-2005 06:28 AM
Re: Reset reboot device remotely
Purely Personal Opinion