| > I want to be able to offer the client the solution of using PCM and MCC
> on the same platform. My thought is that they open one window and they
> get the PCM map...for lack of a better term; they open another window
> and they get the Iconic Map PM within MCC.
Yes we have done that ( it was on Unix at the time, but there is now
no reason for oit not to be possible on OpenVMS)
> Has anyone done this? Any thoughts about performance? On the LAN
> level, they will manage ~25-30 entities, consisting of vitalink
> bridges, VAXcluster members, Risc Servers, etc.
PCM performance is always difficult to give quantative figures for as it
relies so heaviltily on the amount of console data logged and the amount
of scanning etc.
> On the WAN side, they are looking at using DECnis Routers managed by
> the MCC Server. BTW, when will we internally be able to play with PCM
> on an OpenVMS platform? 2 months until official release is too long to
> make these kinds of decisions... Thanks.
Kits have been available for the OpenVMS version Field tests for the last
several months ( see note on kits announcements)
Interestingly in the early days of V1.1 when MCC was still the flagship
framework I wrote a bit of code to send events from ENS on PCM to MCC
using datacollectors via the datacollector API. This code plus a few other
bits and bopieces allowed you to have a DECmcc domain with all the consoles
from PCM as Icons and events from PCM would color the Icons and the notification
window from MCC would have the PCM event info. In addition double clicking
on the icon would launch a connect.
Hope this info is of use.
Cheers Simon...
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| Simon,
Thank you very much for the prompt and *thorough* reply... 8^). As for
your Data Collector code...stay tuned... Maybe we can make it work on
MCC V1.3.
The important part that I want to retain, from VCS, is the ability to
connect to the entities..., ie: connect to the console of a VAX.
Also, I assume that the functionality with the terminal servers is the
same in PCM? By this, I guess I mean, there's nothing to prohibit
being able to load the DECservers from the VAX that serves as the host
for MCC/PCM???
Also, I read somewhere in this conference that PCM requires VMS V6.0, I
assume it requires DECnet/OSI as well??? Thanks very much...
/Mic
BTW, is Phil Baxter moderating this conference??? Hi Phil, remember
me... the Mill in the early '80s...smile. Time flies, eh?
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| PCM does not require DECnet/OSI as it has no 'client' capability. The
only thing it uses DECnet for is some of the action routines use DECnet
as a transport (Window event lists), The C3 is the same for transports.
It works on Phase IV - That's what I'm on. I guess it has been tested
on Phase V.
Yes, Phil is the moderator - but he is away at the moment.
Martin
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