Bill Sutton wrote after Richard Gambrell wrote:
 
>: It looked to me from the article that the routable AFCP also
>: requies a unix to run the new OpenView DTC manager that is the
>: only way to manage the routable DTCs. Is this correct? Or am
>: I going blind (which is entirely possible)?
 
[.....SNIP.....]
>Because TFTP is only available on the HP-UX platform, the configuration
>software was written for the HP-UX platform only.  Remember that this
>also includes the small 700-series boxes.
 
It's true that a low-end 700-series box doesn't cost much, but
I would argue that purchase price is not the main problem here.
The problems in needing yet another separate platform are in
having to fight the internal bureaucracy to get approval to buy
another computer;  then dealing with the supply system
bureaucracy to actually buy the thing once we have approval;
then getting it on a maintenance contract;  and finally most of
all having to deal with learning, running, & managing yet another
separate system on an on-going basis (even though we realize
it doesn't take much to "manage" a small 700-series box).
 
Now someone might suggest that we should fix our internal
bureaucratic problems to make doing all this stuff easier.
It would be great if that could happen, but unfortunately I
don't expect that miracle to occur anytime soon.  So for those
of us stuck in the real world, having to run both a PC *and* a
small UX box just to manage DTC's on our 3000 is a hassle
we would really like to avoid;  purchase price is just a small
part of it.  So I stand by my wish to be able to do *all* DTC
management functions for all flavors of DTCs on one 3000
directly on that 3000........  Which I suppose would mean a
major upgrade to NMMGR to bring that into the real world...
 
Anyway, with POSIX and all the neat network stuff that is now
and will soon be available on the 3000, surely it would not be a
major project to get TFTP to run on MPE as well as HP-UX ??
 
Ken Sletten