This chapter gives a brief description of Console Manager, how it works, and its software components. At the end of the chapter there is an outline of the steps needed to set up Console Manager, which are then expanded in the next two chapters.
If you are using Console Manager, as opposed to setting it up, and you do not wish to read the introductory material, go to the chapter Using Console Manager from the Command Line Interface, if you are using the command line interface or to the chapter Using Console Manager from the C3 Interface, if you are using the X Window System (referred to as DECwindows Motif interface).
This section contains the following topics:
Serviced Systems You Can Monitor and Manage
Directories Used by Console Manager
Steps for Setting up Console Manager
Welcome to CA Console Management for OpenVMS (Console Manager).
Console Manager is a layered product that brings together output from a number of consoles that meet certain requirements onto a single point of control. It provides a central point for monitoring the console activity of multiple systems, as well as for connecting directly to those systems to perform management tasks.
Previously, a system's local console terminal was the only location from which you could perform console functions for that system. Console Manager eliminates the need to monitor and manage physically separate system consoles. By connecting any system you wish to manage (the serviced system) to the system running Console Manager (the host system), you can perform system management task from any terminal or workstation connected to the host system.
When you run Console Manager, it establishes a connection from the host system to all serviced systems stored in the configuration database. When the link to a serviced system is established, all console data received is time-stamped and logged to a file on the Console Manager host. This lets you see and react to the live console data as it occurs and also review the data at a later date. In this situation, Console Manager is simply logging all the data from the consoles of your serviced systems.
If you want to be alerted when something particular happens on the console of a serviced system, you can use Event Notification Services (ENS). This facility performs an action or actions when predefined patterns of console text occur on the consoles of the serviced systems. An action can run any host platform utility or applications, such as mail, broadcast, and Motif applications.
When text passes through Console Manager, ENS scans it for predefined data strings, called events. Event reporting frees you from the need to constantly observe the console. Console messages that you would normally need to search for or wait for a user to find can be set up to create an event. In this way, some problems may be corrected before the user's work is affected.
We strongly recommend that you use ENS to maximize the benefits of Console Manager. ENS is discussed in the chapters Understanding ENS and Setting up the ENS Components.
To support wide area networks, you can use HP TCP/IP Services, Process Software MultiNet, or Process Software TCPware. See the Installation Guide for supported versions of each TCP/IP stack.
Console Manager allows you to monitor the console activity of multiple systems without having to be present at those system's consoles. You can do this either locally or remotely, and also perform management tasks on these systems from a single or multiple point of control. Management can be from either a workstation, or a character cell terminal.
If you have not yet installed Console Manager, refer to the Installation Guide for hardware and software requirements.
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