Conference csc32::consolemanager

  If you take a look at the User Guide, it should explain what
  the different components of the software are and hence what
  those processes do. In brief tho, they do the following:


	Console Notify  - ENS, starts action etc
	Console Daemon  - Parent console controller,
			  starts the children and monitors
			   disk space etc.
	Console Ctrl 01 +
	Console Ctrl 02 +- The console controllers children, these
	Console Ctrl 03 +  are what actually manage the consoles,
			   you will get a new process for each 16
			   manageable systems in your database. So,
			   three would mean that you are controlling
			   between 33 and 48 systems

  Now, as for the problem with C3 displays, I havnt seen this before
  but we will investigate when we have the time. If this is really
  important for you to have fixed, then I suggest that you SPR or
  CLD it.

Cheers,
Phil

  

Hi Phil,
	I have read the user guide and was after a little more detail, as I am a 
new user of PCM I thought I might have missed something simple when installing. 
However, I can't find any referenc to process quotas and was therefore looking 
for some guidence before submitting an SPR.

As to the importance of this problem to me, I am attempting to use PCM to divide 
the monitoring and control of a large number of VAXs Ultrix nodes and printers
between the assigned system manager, whilst displaying the entire configuration on 
two workstation screeen for general viewing. I stoped the development on VCS to 
change over to PCM, as it would be the replacement. I hope this helps explain the 
importance to our data centre.

Thanks again for your time.
Alan

    Alan,
       Did you install the V1.5 kit or do you have 1.1? If you have 1.1
    you definitely want to install the 1.5 kit. Thanks to the engr. groups
    effort, many bugs were fixed in a very short time in the 1.5 kit.
    
    Dan

Hi Dan,
	I dont know what happened to my reply, it seems to have frozen, anyway I have 
1.5 installed. The problem appears to be a resource, the more PCM windows the less
I can do, if I connect to a console, on CTRL E disconnect ENS detaches and one of
the CTRL process starts to consume 98% CPU, DCM reports that the process is looping.

If I start more CM windows the result is the same. The main problem is that having
installed OSI I now have to contend with two unfamiliar products.

Regards
Alan

    Okay. We've had a couple other reports of this too. I haven't been able
    to reproduce it yet though.
    
    Dan

Hi Dan,
	I was using SHOW PROC/CONT on the Notify process, as you start the forth
C3 the Notify process wakes up, does a little and then goes into an MWAIT and 
disapears, I will try to find out which MUTEX it is and let you know.

Regards
Alan

Hi Dan, Phil,
	It was a quota, I used CONSOLE$DEBUG set to ENS and in the log file I had
the message failed to create socket and that the BYTLM quota was exceeded. I have 
changed the parameter in the CONSOLE$STARTUP for the ENS DAEMON to (p6) to 280000.

This now allows me to have the following:

	One full C3 window in the computer room
	One full C3 window on the external diplays
	five C3 windows (one for each system manager)
	
	
The two full windows have no ENS display, two additional ENS displays are provided
using the filter.

The configuration may be important so here it is:

	We have 26 Nodes connected via LAT, and 9 LPS printers using Pseudo conn.

I hope this helps.

Regards 
Alan

    Alan,
    
       If you are using LPS$console in the pseudo terminal, be advised that
    the LPS software updates/refreshes the screen every 10 seconds or so. 
    What this means is that the screen is being redrawn and the entire
    screen will be logged to disk. So, effectively you are logging a screen
    dump every 10 seconds or so. Make sure to watch your logfile size
    growth for these systems.
    
    Cheers,
    
      Dave

Thanks for that Dave, I shutdown PCM and cleanup each night after the backup, so
should be O.K.

Regards
Alan

Alan,

  Thanks for taking the time to investigate this, I will
  make the change to the startup for the next release.

Cheers,
Phil

Phil,
	Will this problem occur again if say I want to add four more C3 windows,
Wouldnt it be possible to allow the definition of a logical i.e. 
CONSOLE$ENS_BYTLM etc so users could increase this at will.

Regards
Alan

Alan,

  OK, thats simple enough, I'll set it up so that
  you can define it in the private_setup file.

Cheers,
Phil