Availability of proper Manageability solutions is the essential requirement to sell computer servers. Though your server solutions are robust and high available or offers unique features to the customers, lack of server management software may lead you to reduced sales. Since rarely customers think of appointing an expert to manage your server. But, they could buy a moderate server with enough tools available for managing it.
Hewlett-Packard, the king of the server making business(I didn’t forget IBM and DELL), have variety of server solutions. HP-UX is the most famous server Operating system from HP. There are lot many articles available about HP-UX. I like to pick the less rubbed ball from the pot.
OpenVMS, Most aged Operating system in the server world. He is 32 year old now. Still runs 100Km per hour on the thread-mill and takes 200 kg dumbbells on each hands. When he was with Digitals hand, he was less explored muscle man. Now with hp, he used to attend international weight lift championship.
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I am going out of the play ground. We are talking about OpenVMS operating system. Earlier this OS was available only on VAX and Alpha architecture. Last few years its available in Intel’s Itanium processor. I would say, from my experience, its a real robust OS. If you wanted to automate your manufacturing factory, give that job to him and go to bed. You don’t need need to have a night mare about the server failure.
There are lots of free tools available for managing OpenVMS servers. System Management Home Page(predecessor of Insight management Agents) is one among from that. Its SNMP based system hardware monitoring and diagnosing software. It has Web interface, so you can see your server internals from remote Desktop.
SMH offers below features
1. Single place for seeing system components status. Right now it has four statuses as OK, Degraded, Failed and unknown.
2. Displaying information about Network interface cards.
3. Displaying information regarding different storage controllers. Say…
- Smart Array controllers
- SAS Controllers
- FGA
4. Processor information including model, speed, etc. And you can set thresholds for usage. And SNMP traps will be generated if thresholds exceeds
5. Hard disk information including space used . Its is possible to set the thresholds for space usage. And SNMP traps will be generated if thresholds exceeds
6. System board information.
7. Power related information
8. Cooling and temperature information
9. Operating system related information.
SMH designed to collect information from SNMP. So SMH installation will also install number SNMP agents in the server and one user has additional facility to read information directly from these SNMP agents. Apache is the web server using to host the web pages.
Let me conclude my briefing now. Its my pleasure to answer your queries regarding SMH or OpenVMS.
hello , I am trying to deploy SMH onto an avms 8.2 system , it has an ods5 structure and I have installed open ssl , csws 2,1 , php 2.1 & smh 2.0-17 . when I startup smh I get the smh processes indicated in the install manual except apache$smh & apache$smh0000 .
ReplyDeletedo you have any ideas regarding the above
If you have openvms 8.2 installed in your I64 machine, then SMH wont able to install it. SMH can suport only 8.2-1 and above.
ReplyDeleteAnd another problem is SMH 2.0-17 will not work with PHP 2.1
The ideal combinaiton of SMH is as below :
OpenVMS 8.2-1 , 8.3 ,8.3 1H1 for Itanium (i64).
SSL 1.3 , Apache 2.1-1 ,PHP 1.3.
If you have alpha machine, this suport matrix will change. So please let me know, if you have alpaha servers
Hi Tony,
ReplyDeleteThank you for visiting here. What shahir told is accurate. If you want more info, do one more comment with below details :
Hardware inf ( alpha/i64 )
OS version :
SSL version :
apache Version :
PHP version :
I think, u have problem because u installed PHP 2.1
Please remove it and install PHP 1.3 from below location :
http://h71000.www7.hp.com/openvms/products/ips/apache/csws_php_relnotes.html#down