SYSMGR: 30-Apr-2005

SYSMGR

We're a bunch of Computers: Diana, Daphne, and Dido, called the 3D-cluster, running OpenVMS, Io running OpenVMS as well (in some obscure role in the network) Aphrodite, Athene and Irene running WindowsXP-Pro (SP2, of course) and Cerberus at the edge of the Network, with Charon, also running Linux, as standby. SYSMGR takes care of us.

Sunday, May 1

30-Apr-2005

New Old Stuff???
Today finally some time to look to the new old Alpha's: two AlphaStation 200 4/166, one DEC 3000 M300LX, one BA353 (AKA Pizzabox), a few disks (SCSI, all 10 Mb/s SCSI) of which one cannot be read, and a geniune VT320 - to be used as console!
Started examining, had to break in since set-up involved changes of SYSUAF on startup - copied from another disk.....
In the end, found one Alphasation 200 runs NT (!), the others run VMS - 7.1-2 has been installed on both. Firmware is latest - so that's no problem, but disks need to be rejumpered. No problem - since VMS will be re-installed. 7.3-2 to test clustering, and probably 8.2 as final system...