| >Customer has tried CSC with no luck...Thanks....Steve c...
Which CSC?
>o Console manager does not seem to start up even though
>"@SYS$STARTUP::
> CONSOLE$STARTUP" is in startup procedure. Executing this
>procedure
> after the system boots will work, however.
Yep. If you are running V1.5 or even V1.6 (without the ECO I think) you
can run into this problem.It used to be that we linked against the
DECWindows shareables for all images when we didn't need to and it
caused this problem. The issue is that the DECWIndows Motif shareable
images are not installed when SYSTARTUP_VMS runs. Prior to VMS 6.0
DECW$STARTUP was called twice - once very early on in system startup
prior to the execution of SYSTARTUP_VMS.COM - this first call to
DECW$STARTUP did nothing more than install shareable images. Now that
that call is no longer present, anything that needs those shareables
must be deferred to a later phase of startup via the STARTUP databases
manipulated by SYSMAN. So you can install V1.6 and the ECO1 or
remove the call to CONSOLE$STARTUP from SYSTARTUP_VMS and do
MCR SYSMAN>
SYSMAN> START ADD FILE CONSOLE$STARTUP.COM/PHASE=END
>o Power cycle of console subsystem (alpha running console
>manager) causes an alphaserver 2100 4/275 to halt.
Based on other text in your note it appears that you have systems
connected to local serial ports on the PCM engine. Power cycling causes
a BREAK to be generated on those serial lines when the async controller
inits. This is the way those ports work so you ahve to be very
careful. In the old VCS days when we used fibre optic modems to
communicate to the managed systems we sold a little cheap A-B switch so
that we could failover to a local terminal if it was necessary to
shutdpwn/power-off the engine so we could avoid the problem of halting
a system that uses BREAK as the halt key. I do not know off the top of
my head if you can set the Alphaserver to use CTRL-P instead of break
as can be done on later 4000 series VAxen.
>o Data overrun errors on alphastation 200 4/100 serial ports. Works
> fine on DEC 2000 Model 300.
The typeahead buffer isn;t big enough. On local serial lines it is
important to set the following SYSGEN parameters onthe PCM engine:
TTY_ALTYPAHD = 1000
TTY_ALTALARM = 320
This should solve the data-overrun problem.
>o Have not attempted to integrate with printer on parallel
>port. Previous attempts to use parallel printer on parallel port of
>Alphastation 200 4/166 have been unsuccessful.
PCM cannot utilize a parallel port as an interface to a service nodes
console as systems just don't use a parallel port as their console. If
you know of one I;d like to know what it is!! Now certainly we could
use the parallel port as the output of the WATCH interface to produce a
hardcopy of the console data.
Regs,
Dan
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