| You might want to look at the Common Agent stuff rather than
develop an entire AM. It is much, much faster, and much simpler.
Documentation and kits are available on BULOVA::DOCD$:[SYSTEM_MANAGEMENT]
for VMS and on DECWET:: for Ultrix.
Either the Common agent notes file ( DECWET::COMMON-AGENT) or the
VMS Distributes Managment Services conference should provide pointers.
(PV1201::DMS-IFT)
The R/CMP project (going to Fieldtest this month) also addresses a lot
of "system" managment type "stuff" like users, disks, types, systems...
P.B. Bhat should be able to give pointers to what they are doing.
I dont have a pointer to a notes file for them.
A copy of the documentation for R/CMP is at TOOK::USER$779:[RCMP].
If you have a problemn getting files there, send mail directly to me.
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| DECmcc provides a lot of out of the box management applications
functionality that works with new objects once they are enrolled.
ALARMS, Notifications Services, FCL, Iconic MAP, Registration, Domains,
Basic Control (SHOW, SET, CREATE, DELETE, ENABLE, DISABLE), Historical
Data Recording, and an interface to an SQL system for report
generation. In other words, we provide 90-95% of the functionality
of most proprietary systems in a generic package.
DECmcc DEC CMIP AM (aka Decnet Phase V AM) provides generic access
to remote agents which are the local interface to applications. This
allows new application entities/objects (in OSI jargon) to be
added to the suite of supported entities with NO AM development.
DECmcc SNMP AM provides similar capabilities via TCP transport.
DEC common Agent on VMS (to be released shortly) will reduce the
effort of introducing a new application to the task of supplying
a handful of routines and enrolling an object description into
the VMS common agent. A similar extensible common agent is planned
for the Ultrix/OSF Silver release (no dates for field availability
are known by me).
If you need to talk to someone in the field who has prototyped this
sort of applications development path, contact Chris Mueller.
wally
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