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Conference csc32::consolemanager

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
Total number of notes:6564

1258.0. "PCM V1.6 and HSZ40 (V2.7) console hangs." by SALEM::HARRIS_M () Tue Apr 02 1996 21:38

    Hi,
    
     I've noticed in the HSZ and HSJ conference that some people are
    exhibiting console hangs with PCM and HSZs. I'm currently seeing 
    this on a system that I am installing.
     I'm running PCM V1.6 with ECO2 installed on a standalone alphastation
    200 running OVMS ALPHA V6.2. I have 8 HSZ40's running V2.7 firmware.
    Randomly an HSZ40 will hang on me, doing a RESTART OTHER from is dual-
    redundant member clears this? The HSZ40's will comeup  and I can
    connect to them all, after some period of time though I will lose a
    connection to 1 or two of them. Exiting out (CTL^G) and re-opening the
    HSZ40 results in the console still being hung.  Has anyone exhibited 
    this behavior before?
    
    				Thanks,
    
    					Matt
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1258.1CSC32::BUTTERWORTHGun Control is a steady hand.Wed Apr 03 1996 14:2427
>     I've noticed in the HSZ and HSJ conference that some people are
>    exhibiting console hangs with PCM and HSZs. I'm currently seeing 
>    this on a system that I am installing.
>     I'm running PCM V1.6 with ECO2 installed on a standalone alphastation
>    200 running OVMS ALPHA V6.2. I have 8 HSZ40's running V2.7 firmware.
>    Randomly an HSZ40 will hang on me, doing a RESTART OTHER from is dual-
>    redundant member clears this? 
    
    Sounds like the console poer is getting xoff'd.
    
    
    >The HSZ40's will comeup  and I can connect to them all, after some 
    >period of time though I will lose a connection to 1 or two of them. 
    >Exiting out (CTL^G) and re-opening the HSZ40 results in the console still
    > being hung.
    
    If you have lost the connection the server port the hung HSZ is
    connected to exiting and reentering MONITOR/CONNECT will have no
    effect.
    
    What kind of decserver are you using? If it is a DS200 I would suggest
    trying a different type server as I've had some trouble with the 200's
    in some environments.
    this behavior before?
    
    Regs,
      Dan
1258.2DECserver700..SALEM::HARRIS_MThu Apr 04 1996 14:045
    reply .1
    
     it's a decserver700..
    
    		Matt
1258.3Up VMS account quotas, edit DIALOG scriptsWOTVAX::DAVIESGI had too much to dream last nightThu Oct 10 1996 05:1228
    Have observed a near identical problem when using PCM to do console
    control of HSZ40s using DIALOG scripts.
    
    Run your DIALOG script a few times in succession and the console will
    hang. PCM HSZ40 icon loses its green locked symbol, but console remains
    locked. Go onto terminal server (in this case 90L) and the port is
    still connected, the DIALOG script itself has hung and will not
    complete.
    
    However, we seem to have found a solution.
    
    This is PCM v1.6-100 off the August 1996 CD for OPENVMS software
    library, running on OPEN VMS v6.2-1H3.
    
    In the DIALOG box, remove all RATE commands. I do not know why, but
    these do not seem to work (RATE is suppossed to control the length of
    time between SEND commands) and put in a SPEED 500 command at the top
    of the script.
    
    On the VMS PCM workstation up the quotas for BYTLM, FILLM and ASTLM to
    something approaching the following BYTLM=100,000, FILLM=250 and
    ASTLM=350, for the accounts running OSCint/PCM. The scripts will now
    run all the way through repeatedly without ever hanging the console.
    There would appear to be a major buffering problem with the management
    of HS* family of products through PCM; but, this seems a viable
    solution.
    
    Guy