| Title: | POLYCENTER Console Manager |
| Notice: | Kits, Scans, Docs on CSC32:: as PCM$KITS:,PCM$DOCS:, PCM$SCANS: |
| Moderator: | CSC32::BUTTERWORTH |
| Created: | Thu Aug 06 1992 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1541 |
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My customer is running PCM on a AlphaServer 1000, monitoring about 50
devices via termnal server connections. He is concerned about a hot
backup in case the AlphaServer 1000 goes down, however this is the only
Alpha system among many Vaxes in his shop.
It seems that there are two alternatives:
1. Purchase 50 additional PCM licenses (about $35K ) and put them on an
existing Vax and export/import the PCM Database from Alpha to Vax.
or
2. Purchase a 2nd AlphaServer 1000 and SCSI cluster the two Alphas
with VMS V6.2. ( about $20K ).
What are the pluses/minuses of each senario? Will a SCSI cluster
provide the hot backup for PCM that the customer is looking for ??
Thx,
Dave Rifkin
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
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| 811.1 | OPG::PHILIP | And through the square window... | Wed Jun 14 1995 12:59 | 7 | |
Dave, Exactly what do you mean by "hot backup"? If you tell us what you expect to be doing we can give you a few ideas. Cheers, Phil | |||||
| 811.2 | Definition | ROMEOS::RIFKIN_DA | David Rifkin | Wed Jun 14 1995 16:41 | 8 |
In this case, "hot backup" means if the AlphaServer goes down, the
customer can continue to monitor his 50 devices via a second system
with a minimum startup effort.
Regards,
Dave
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| 811.3 | OPG::PHILIP | And through the square window... | Wed Jun 14 1995 17:29 | 12 | |
Dave, Any of the hardware configs you have will work, I would suggest using PCM V1.6 and issuing a "@Console$Startup Install" on all the platforms, then on the live one issue a "CONSOLE INITIALIZE/NOCONFIRM". Now, if you have something like PSW monitoring the parent daemon process on your backup system, if it goes away, on your backup system you can then issue the initialize command. Cheers, Phil | |||||