Re: [foxboro] Licensing of mirroring software




>>Sorry guys a quick look at the IQS   shows
>>J0175GU   Disk Mirroring software
>>As standard the medusa software supplied is a cut down version that only
supports concatenation.

This indeed bad news, to the tune of a few thousand $$, if true.  According
to the information we have recieved, this is AP50 requirement, but not
an AW/AP51 requirement.  More research is in progress.

According to the AW 51 license deescription, J0173DA,

 "The Application Workstation 51 Operating System Software License
  Includes: Memory Management, Object Manager, File Management,
  Interprocess Communications, Error Handling, Scheduling Networking
  Capability And Utilities, And Support For Disk Mirroring Of
  Foxboro 50 Series Hard Disks, Real Time Operating Display Software,
  And X-Window Support. "


>>System monitor does not monitor medusa messages.

According to B0193ND, System Administration, chapter 5

  When a disk drive or a SCSI bus fails, the Online DiskSuite software
  detects the failure and issues appropriate error notifications to the
  standard Solaris software running in the AP/AW. Foxboro monitoring
  software (put in place when Disk Mirroring is configured) also receives
  these error notifications and, in turn, takes corrective action. Most
  of these actions are transparent to you. The action you do see is an
  error notification (via the System Monitor) describing the failure.

  The error messages take the following form:

  Standard Error Messages header (that is, time, date, letterbug, subsystem)
  MDMON: MD_MONITOR: meta database delete on <XXXX> on <YYYY>

  etc.
And I thought I remembered there were messages on that last big Foxboro
job I was on.  Maybe not.


>>as a quick check cd /usr/local/medusa

>>dft

>>this will produce a uaeage message
>>it is different if the mirroring software is configured (licensed or not)
or
>>not.

True.  A different dft is installed, along with some other stuff.


More later.
William C. Ricker
FeedForward, Inc.
Marietta, GA, USA
wcricker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
770-426-4422

 
 
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