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Title:ACMS comments and questions
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Created:Mon Feb 17 1986
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
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4131.0. "Distributed ACMS on OSI over IP?" by GIDDAY::REINHOLD () Thu Mar 20 1997 23:20

    Gidday,
    	   This one is lots of fun.
    
    
    	   VMS V6.2
    	   ACMS V4.1
    	   DECFORMS V2.1a
    	   CDD V6.1 ECO 1
    	   OSI
    	   UCX
    	
    	   BE Alpha 8400
    
    	   FE VAX 7640
    
    
    	I have a customer whom is migrating their FE/BE envrionment from
    DNET OSI (with X25 transport) to DNET OSI (with IP transport). All
    works fine, except when the BE server is bounced.
    
    	In the past with X25 as the transport, when they bounced the
    backend, the front end systems would still run, and re-establish
    connection to the backend when it came back up.
    
    	However with IP as the transport, when they now bounce the backend,
    the users on the front end get the error 'Server not available' and the
    CP dies. The solution is to restart ACMS and the application when the 
    backend system comes back up.
    
    	Unfortunately the last time they tested this was last weekend, and
    they don't currently have the SWL logs on line, they claim that they
    will retest this next week. I am hoping the SWL logs have an indicator
    of the actual failure.
    
    	Meanwhile, distributed ACMS supported on DECNET OSI over IP ? 
    Is this a known problem with this kind of configuration/ anyone have 
    any suggestions for how to fix it (ie, increase MAXBUF?) ? 
    
    
    					Cheers,
    						Dave Reinhold
    						CSC Sydney
    						Australia
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4131.1ACMS::HALLBill Hall - ACMS Engineering - ZKO2-2Tue Mar 25 1997 09:095
    
    	Can you get the UCX and DECnet/OSI version # and ECO levels?
    
    	Bill
4131.2Multinet not UCXGIDDAY::REINHOLDWed Mar 26 1997 22:0129
    Gidday Bill,
    
    	The plot thickens....
    
    
    	DECnet/OSI for OpenVMS Version V6.3-ECO06 on both the FE and BE.
    
    	
    	The TCP/IP is NOT UCX, it's Multinet.
    
    
    	Multinet V3.5-B on BE
    
    	Multinet V4.0-A on the FE.
    
    
    	I beleive that RFC1006 covers DNET OSI with IP as the transport.
    
    	According to the customer, DECNET OSI engineering Support MULTINET
    as an IP Transport Layer.
    
    
    	What do you think? Should I still escalate this to get an
    Authenticated reply on if it is supported for ACMS?
    
    					Cheers,
    						Dave