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Title:DECmcc user notes file. Does not replace IPMT.
Notice:Use IPMT for problems. Newsletter location in note 6187
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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

1033.0. "Follow the Sun Capabilities?" by CTHQ1::JAKUS () Mon May 20 1991 17:06

    
    
    			Follow the Sun Capabilities
    
    I have a question regarding future functionality planned for
    DECmcc? The people who manage the internal Voice and Transmission
    networks have expressed a need to have the DECmcc system support
    multiple centers of control. One scenario is to have three
    geographically distributed systems in Europe, the US and Far East. 
    
    All three systems would be monitoring the same domain. Can I designate
    one of them as the controlling system for say an eight hour period?
    If I clear alarms from that control point will the others see the
    alarms clear ? Can I restrict the clearing of alarms to a designated
    control system ? Once the eight hour period is over can I pass the
    control ability to another site ( from Europe to US )? Another
    scenario whether users could have different levels of access
    for equipment within the same domain? An example would be that 
    both US and Europe operations are monitoring the global backbone
    network, with Europe controlling the Newbridge subnetwork and
    the US controlling the StrataCom subnetworks.
    
    Any insight would be appreciated.
    
    Thanks
    
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1033.1a half cent replyTOOK::MATTHEWSThu May 30 1991 10:2538
    To properly answer this question one has to ask many others.
    If the only desired result is to pass control to another
    manager in another data center, that capability exists today.
    Since Domains are registered entities and domain membership
    is registered, any set of users who desire to share a domain
    and to pass off control have those capabilities today. It takes
    no explicit functionality to support this, it only takes administrative
    centers. 
    
    However, if as I suspect, these data centers are formalized and
    are working on trouble tickets and problem reports which also need
    to be passed on. That is not a domain question but a question about
    the futures of trouble tickets and problem reports. If there is an
    issue of access control and that control via a domain should be
    restricted to a set time period by any particular data center or
    operator, it is not clear that DECmcc will ever go that route. 
    
    If when you pass control of a domain, you wish to pass a set of
    context about the current operation of the domain and the historical
    data that is collected, then you have an expectation of domains that
    does not match our vision of domains.
    
    From your question I can assume that you have a much richer expectation
    of what a domain is and what we use it for than we have.
    
    A domain is a simple way to subset a network for many possible uses.
    We add no further value to Domains to specialize them for particular
    uses. You are assuming one particular use of domains and asking
    what our plans for it are. To give you better quality answers we need
    a more complete description of what you expect a domain to be for
    a strict data center operation. 
    
    If our answer isn't what you would like it to be, remember that you
    have the ability to write your own Management Module which can use
    domains as a building block to customize the operation in a way
    that fits your customers needs.
    
    wally