21-Jan-2010

Not the Sydney Morning Herald

No. Systems Management Homepage, a tool that is the "single system management solution for managing OpenVMS". Well, I've heard that before. Things like the OpenVMS Management Station spring to mind.

As far as I can see, this product is just a bunch of MIB extensions which feed into Insight Manager.

Do we really need the Java, Apache, and PHP on our production machines to manage them? I thought I was doing pretty well at the command line over the last 25 years. Perhaps I'm missing something?

I'd love to hear your experiences with this product, pro and con. Feel free to comment below.

Posted at January 21, 2010 4:50 PM
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I've posted up a response and some links:

http://labs.hoffmanlabs.com/node/1479

Posted by: Stephen Hoffman at January 22, 2010 2:20 AM

Let's see if I can summarize your points, Hoff.

Cons: security hole and heavyweight.

Pros: easier to manage.

OK, I wasn't aware of the security hole, but I was certainly aware of the amount of resources this consumes. And what do you get for your CPU and I/O? A pretty dashboard of resource information (which I already get from PERFDAT); alarms (which I already get from PERFDAT and custom monitoring); remote support integration (which we've seen before via DNSlink, WEBES, SPOP, etc, etc).

I only mentioned OpenVMS Management Station as a joke based on the hype on the SMH homepage. I'm aware that Management Station can do user management, and it seemed quite amusing that SMH can't, yet it's billed as the "single system management solution for managing OpenVMS"

For managing a total of 9 OpenVMS machines, I doubt if I need this product. On the other hand, if I was managing 1,000 Windows servers...

Posted by: Jim Duff at January 22, 2010 9:39 AM

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