Hi Steve,
A lot of third party software is not only HPSUSAN sensitive but also
HPCPUNAME sensitive.  Omnidex and Nbspool are two that come to mind.
Cheryll Thompson Ganzel
Smith-Gardner, Inc.

Art Bahrs wrote:
>
> Hi Steve :)
>    Someone will correct me if I am wrong... but when I did my disaster
> recovery plans back at a former gig I found out that HP could reset the HP
> SUSAN on a "disaster box" so that I wouldn't have to get my vendors to send
> me new activation codes....
>
> And actually I also had a co-op agreement with another site (across the
> city) that had a basically identical box... if we crashed ... I would move
> my backup tapes and staff over to their site and work from 6 pm to 6 am
> while they would work from 6 am to 6pm... lots of backups and reloads....
> but it would work...even passed Arthur Anderson's Information System Review
> process for disaster recovery!!
>
> The other site of course was set to do the same thing on my box... :)  (but
> then all the company I was working for back then did was pay $20,000 to get
> told what I had been telling them for years! hehehe)
>
> As someone else will mention... always have 2 of everything possible!  and
> when it comes to network servers that doesn't cost near as much as downtime
> does!
>
> Art "haven't needed to test my disaster recovery plans ... yet! " Bahrs
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Steve Hampton <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Monday, April 17, 2000 12:20 PM
> Subject: disaster recovery
>
> >         If we had a disaster and we needed a new machine, would we be able
> to
> > just restore our last backup and run all programs. Would we have to
> > reinstall all apps to handle the different SUSAN number on the new
> > machine?
> >         Thanks.
> >
> > --
> > Steve Hampton
> > Information Systems
> > Belleville News-Democrat
> > Belleville, IL
> > (618) 239-2635