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06-30-2004 05:03 AM
06-30-2004 05:03 AM
Server: Alpha 4100, VMS 6.2
We are looking for a software product to monitor VMS systems. What we are looking for are ideas on what people are using to perform this function. Whatever the product is it should be able to integrate with HP's Openview/Operations product (ITO/OVO).
We are basically looking for a monitoring solution that can work with HP OVO.
10 points to any good answer or idea.
TIA, Gino
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Solutionhttp://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/10450_div/10450_div.html
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06-30-2004 08:34 AM
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Re: VMS system monitoring software for HP Openview.
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06-30-2004 02:41 PM
06-30-2004 02:41 PM
Re: VMS system monitoring software for HP Openview.
The short answer is "It can't be done"
We have/had the complete HPOV suite installed in our data centers. For monitoring the 200+ OpenVMS alphaservers we use BMC Patrol and Consoleworks.
We also use Consoleworks to monitor the 72 CLI ports on our HSG80 storage controllers.
Why repeat myself. :-)
For an earlier thread on this exact topic, go back to page 15 and look at this thread labeled MANAGING OPENVMS.
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=353508
Mike Naime.
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06-30-2004 07:33 PM
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Re: VMS system monitoring software for HP Openview.
I monitored at max about 200 servers and stations using simple DCL (4000 lines).
1 script that barely needs config but that monitored nodes 5.5, 6.2 and 7.x, using decnet 4 and 5, ucx 2.x,3.x,4.x,5.x.
I included a description of what it monitors. Some items are specific to this bank (but the script knows it).
Wim
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06-30-2004 07:35 PM
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Re: VMS system monitoring software for HP Openview.
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06-30-2004 08:05 PM
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Re: VMS system monitoring software for HP Openview.
We use console manager but the scans are not active. What I'm missing is something that doesn't scan for known things but something that tells me when an unknown thing happens.
E.g. if the message "I don't like this my job. I am going to crash" appears on the console, that it is considered as unknown and thus an alarm must be given.
Wim
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06-30-2004 08:12 PM
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Re: VMS system monitoring software for HP Openview.
$ mc agen$feedback
$ sea sys$system:agen$feedback.dat npagedyn_allocafail
The first line is the same as
$ @sys$update:autogen savparams savparams, but is shorter
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06-30-2004 08:42 PM
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Re: VMS system monitoring software for HP Openview.
Thanks for the tip. I give an alarm when 50% of the max is used.
E.g. NPAGDYN 4, NPAGVIR 16 alarm at 8.
This alarm indicates that something is wrong or that the 4 is too low.
And autogen is too heavy for regular usage.
Wim (can't give you a point, sorry)
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06-30-2004 08:50 PM
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Re: VMS system monitoring software for HP Openview.
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06-30-2004 10:01 PM
06-30-2004 10:01 PM
Re: VMS system monitoring software for HP Openview.
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
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06-30-2004 10:32 PM
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Re: VMS system monitoring software for HP Openview.
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
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06-30-2004 11:36 PM
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06-30-2004 11:39 PM
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07-01-2004 12:03 AM
07-01-2004 12:03 AM
Re: VMS system monitoring software for HP Openview.
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.
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07-01-2004 12:10 AM
07-01-2004 12:10 AM
Re: VMS system monitoring software for HP Openview.
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
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07-01-2004 12:23 AM
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Re: VMS system monitoring software for HP Openview.
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07-01-2004 12:41 AM
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Re: VMS system monitoring software for HP Openview.
http://h71000.www7.hp.com/openvms/system_management.html
Antonio Vigliotti
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07-01-2004 12:46 AM
07-01-2004 12:46 AM
Re: VMS system monitoring software for HP Openview.
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
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07-01-2004 01:15 AM
07-01-2004 01:15 AM
Re: VMS system monitoring software for HP Openview.
You can get all information about RoboMon for OpenVMS at the URL below
http://www.heroix.com/products/detail_robomon.htm
regards
Mobeen
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07-01-2004 02:04 AM
07-01-2004 02:04 AM
Re: VMS system monitoring software for HP Openview.
Just hope that XP is there after a disaster.
Does BMC check quotas, tcp service limits, print queues, looping things (and the allowed ones), shadow set changes, file versions (32K), DTSS, global pages, device errors (and not the ones that are allowed such as recovered write errors), decnet transport limits, ... ?
Gino,
The doc of robomon is not very concreet. You'll have to ask a demo version.
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07-01-2004 02:19 AM
07-01-2004 02:19 AM
Re: VMS system monitoring software for HP Openview.
Just checked your links. It seems BMC is doing most of the things. But how do you specify all the exceptions ?
E.g. certain images/users/process names do things that are forbidden to all others. And do you have to tell that for every node ?
Can you also add checks yourself ?
Wim
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07-01-2004 02:21 AM
07-01-2004 02:21 AM
Re: VMS system monitoring software for HP Openview.
I am afraid you do things much more subtle that the standard tools
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07-01-2004 02:46 AM
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Re: VMS system monitoring software for HP Openview.
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07-01-2004 03:03 AM
07-01-2004 03:03 AM
Re: VMS system monitoring software for HP Openview.
Dale:
Are you running RoboMon with OVO or just NNM
by itself?
10 points to any good answers or ideas.
TIA, Gino