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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

5186.0. "10 ways to integrate with POLYCENTER Framework?" by OSLACT::BJORN (Bj�rn Olav Haugom) Fri Jun 11 1993 10:19

In many presentations and marketing papers, I've seen titled
"10 ways to integrate with POLYCENTER Framework".

Now I wonder if we've got any description of how we do this!

In the POLYCENTER family we've got a lot of applications listed up.
I'm interested in knowing how we have integrated these applications with
POLYCENTER Framwork.

If anyone have any ideas, please be specific about the following products;
-HUBwatch, how do we launch Hubwatch from clicking on an icon in IMPM?
-POLYCENTER System Watchdog integration
-POLYCENTER System Census
-POLYCENTER Software Distribution Manager
-POLYCENTER Console Manager
-DEC Availibility Manager
-POLYCENTER Security Family

If anyone has setup a live demo of these possibilities, pleas let me know.
I'm going to do a demo of POLYCENTER Network Management, but need to include
some demo of system management also.

Bj�rn Olav Haugom

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5186.1 Been there. Done that. MCDOUG::doug Dead or Canadian? Fri Jun 11 1993 15:20 48

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5186.1	Been there. Done that.	MCDOUG::doug	Dead or Canadian?	`Fri Jun 11 1993 15:20`	48
	>In many presentations and marketing papers, I've seen titled >"10 ways to integrate with POLYCENTER Framework". > >Now I wonder if we've got any description of how we do this! The integration topics you describe are outlined (for a subset of POLYCENTER products) in the "Syzygy Project Post Partum" white paper I wrote. The paper was written with a rather narrow audience in mind (NSM) and is certainly not for public consumption. The topic of the report was not so much "how" to integrate specific products, but "what can be done" and "what would it look like if we did" and "how much can you do quickly" and "what's the payback". If you want a copy, send mail. I believe that the correct model is for Digital applications to ship whatever scripts, programs, utilities, documentation, duct tape and bailing wire it takes to integrate the application with the POLYCENTER Framework (either with the kits or as add-on options). The DECinspect UNIX ID and System Census groups are the first "system management application" groups to have done just such a thing with their products and they should be publicly acknowledged for doing such good jobs! re: demo We (NSM Technical Services) have actually developed systems demo the sort of things you're talking about (not all of the products, though) and 'clone' them for many trade shows, etc.... However, there are no instructions or other docs for theses systems and you would have to use an exact duplicate of the systems (i.e. image backup or dump). In short, we've built systems that do include integration of a lot of DEC products, but we do NOT have a 'canned demo' & script I.e. we don't have a nice canned turn-key operation & glossy script that reads: 1. Say this "..." 2. Step back, smile -- point out blah blah about the foo window ... 3. Click on ... 4. Create a terminal window... 5. blah blah blah You get the picture... These demo systems can only be distributed by either image backups (VMS) or level 0 dumps (ULTRIX). It's easier and faster for use to clone the disks direcly rather than create tapes. If you're interested, send mail to me at TOOK::MCPHERSON or to my supervisor Larry Wellington (TOOK::WELLINGTON). /doug

>In many presentations and marketing papers, I've seen titled
>"10 ways to integrate with POLYCENTER Framework".
>
>Now I wonder if we've got any description of how we do this!

    The integration topics you describe are outlined (for a subset of
    POLYCENTER products) in the "Syzygy Project Post Partum" white paper I
    wrote.  The paper was written with a rather narrow audience in mind
    (NSM) and is certainly not for public consumption.  The topic of the
    report was not so much "how" to integrate specific products, but "what
    can be done" and "what would it look like if we did" and "how much can
    you do quickly" and "what's the payback".  If you want a copy, send
    mail.

    *I* believe that the correct model is for Digital applications to ship
    whatever scripts, programs, utilities, documentation, duct tape and
    bailing wire it takes to integrate the application with the POLYCENTER
    Framework (either with the kits or as add-on options).  The DECinspect
    UNIX ID and System Census groups are the first "system management
    application" groups to have done just such a thing with their products
    and they should be publicly acknowledged for doing such good jobs!  

re: demo

    We (NSM Technical Services) *have* actually developed systems demo the
    sort of things you're talking about (not all of the products, though)
    and 'clone' them for many trade shows, etc....   However, there are no
    instructions or other docs for theses systems and you would have to use
    an exact duplicate of the systems (i.e.  image backup or dump).

     In short, we've built systems that *do* include integration of a lot
     of DEC products, but we do NOT have a 'canned demo' & script I.e. we
     don't have a nice canned turn-key operation & glossy script that
     reads:
        1. Say this "..."
        2. Step back, smile -- point out blah blah about the foo window ...
        3. Click on ...
        4. Create a terminal window... 
        5. blah blah blah
     You get the picture...

     These demo systems can only be distributed by either image backups
     (VMS) or level 0 dumps (ULTRIX).   It's easier and faster for use to
     clone the disks direcly rather than create tapes.  If you're
     interested, send mail to me at TOOK::MCPHERSON or to my supervisor
     Larry Wellington (TOOK::WELLINGTON).

 /doug