Online System Manager
Since 1986, PARSEC Group has provided excellent technical services for OpenVMS users. To help our telephone support clients, we created OSM: PARSEC Group’s powerful and proven tool enabling proactive system management, predictive maintenance, and exception-based, timely responsiveness. OSM can help you, too!
Comprehensive System Monitoring
OSM keeps a constant watch over your computers. When something unusual occurs, OSM takes appropriate action. Those responsible deal only with the exceptions, freeing up valuable time.
Systems........................local or remote,
stand-alone or clustered, with fail-over features
Scope of Events............hardware, software,
performance, security and user-defined:
| Device Errors Page/Swap File Utilization Power Fail Recoveries Excessive Disk Fragmentation |
Disk Space Utilization File System Caches CPU Access Modes User-Defined Events |
Security Alarms Pool Expansion Page Faults PLUS much, much more... |
Proactive Assistance
OSM has other features that assist in the management of their OpenVMS systems. These include:
- Remote System Monitoring - OSM can notify you when another node on your network goes down or is not being properly monitored by OSM.
- SYSUAF Synchronization - OSM can propagate changes to the user authorization file. If you change your pasword on one system, OSM can make the same change on other nodes.
- Time Synchronization - Time differences may be reported, corrected or both.
- User-Defined - Execute any command or command procedure to correct an event.
Flexible Response Handling
Each type of event may be defined as either critical or non-critical. The critical events cause immediate action to be taken while the non-critical events are stored up for later notification. This prevents the system manager being interrupted with too much "noise" while they are doing their normal job.
Pager............................Notify proper person, with backup paging if first on-call
person does not respond
E-Mail............................Send the captured data and notification via the network
Modem..........................A stand-alone system can "call home" to relay
exception-event details
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Documentation in Microsoft Word format
Documentation in Adobe PDF format
OpenVMS VMSINSTAL Kit
Note: after downloading the OpenVMS VMSINSTAL Kit, issue the following command to set file characteristics
before installing:
$ SET FILE OSM032.A/ATTRIBUTE=LRL=2048
REQUIRES - Alpha: OpenVMS 6.1 or higher; VAX: OpenVMS 5.2 or higher; 2,000 blocks disk;
paging and remote notification features need access to port, modem, and phone line.
