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Title:DECmcc user notes file. Does not replace IPMT.
Notice:Use IPMT for problems. Newsletter location in note 6187
Moderator:TAEC::BEROUD
Created:Mon Aug 21 1989
Last Modified:Wed Jun 04 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:6497
Total number of notes:27359

928.0. "TSAM and unsolicited events ?" by KETJE::PACCO () Wed Apr 17 1991 13:41

    Will trhe TSAM be able to generate unsolicited events?  If you have to
    manage a lot of terminal servers, you will enjoy to be informed if a
    server died.  On request, the TS AM could easily "intercept" the hello
    messages associated with the keepalive timer, to determine the
    accessibility of the server.  If an event can be generated, the
    alarms based on the unsolicited events will be much more efficient than
    if this would be done by polling.  Your network map will also be much more
    "reactive" on these Terminal server Events.
    
    	Regards,
    	Dominique.
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928.1No plans...SCRPIO::LIZBICKIWed Apr 24 1991 14:089
    Dominique -

    There are currently no plans to implement such functionality in the
    Terminal Server AM.  I will add it to our "wish list" for possible
    future enhancements.

					-Lynne
928.2Events neededCLAUDI::PETERSMon May 06 1991 15:4914
I agree with Dominique,  I spoke with several customer in the St. Louis area a few
weeks ago and they all had the same need to know (by an event not a poll) if a 
Terminal Server has crashed.  They were pretty unhappy with the inability of any 
DEC products to track TSs.  In many cases, these customers have very large populations 
attached via terminal servers and when one goes down they experience major outages 
and user idle time.    They were also very unhappy with the downline load scenrios 
created by a building power failure where the TSs can not be loaded fast enough due 
to limitations in VMS/NETACP/MOM.  That is not an DECmcc issues, it is a DECnet-VAX 
issue, but may affect customer perception of the effectiveness of DECmcc to 
manage the Terminal Server environment (or any thing requiring DLL).  

So please put events high on your futures list.

Thanks, Claudia
928.3DECwindows nit...MCDOUG::MCPHERSONi'm only 5 foot one...Mon May 06 1991 17:3614
You must be using DECwindows VAXnotes, Claudia... Your text is wrapping past
the 80 column boundary and it's not readable from an 80-column DECterm.  
(I've noticed this in a couple  of replies from you today.)

This can be kind of a nuisance if they're not running DECwindows notes, 
(or have a horizontal scrollbar on their DECterms) as people will either 
need to infer what you typed or set their terminals to 132-column mode.

I _did_ say it was a nit.  

Mea culpa.

/doug
928.4It's on the wish-listSCRPIO::LIZBICKIWed May 15 1991 15:0713
   re: .1

   Again, the request for the functionality has been added to the
   wish-list for TSAM enhancements.

   If you are asking for new functionality in the terminal servers
   themselves, I would suggest entering a note in either the LAT
   or the new TOOK::TERMINAL_SERVERS notes conferences.  The 
   TSM notes file also discusses management of terminal servers.

					Lynne