Good point. Not having a disaster recovery plan is
dangerous. A disaster recovery plan would have instructions
for the possibility that your system must be replaced.
The same mechanism that would be used to activate 3rd party
software during a DR event would have worked for you until
your software vendor can make the permanent fix.
Prior planning.....

            Bob J. -- Ideal Computer Services
            http://www.icsgroup.com


Roy Brown wrote:
>
> In message <[log in to unmask]>, Bob J. <[log in to unmask]>
> writes
> >> > * No plans to make SSCONFIG publicly available
> >>
> >> So license it to trusted third parties. Not making it available just creates
> >> nightmare scenarios for HP's customers.
> >
> > This item is getting blown way out of proportion. If in
> >the rare event that (whatever part is housing stable storage)
> >fails your hardware vendor can replace the SPU. Next
> >you call a few third party software vendors that use the ss
> >info and get whatever key they use to lock up their product.
> >That shouldn't take much effort....hardly a nightmare with just
> >a little planning.
> > The fact is (whatever part is housing stable storage) has proven
> >to be the most reliable part of the systems.
>
> Last Christmas (and not exactly Christmas, so it wasn't that everybody
> was away), we had a hardware failure that led to the replacement of a
> CPU, with the resulting change in HPSUSAN.
>
> HP (for it was they who were supporting us) also thought the above true,
> and suggested we got our 3rd party vendors to give us new keys, rather
> than HP resetting the box to the old HPSUSAN.
>
> On the third working day of attempting to follow this approach, when we
> still had no 3rd party software running again, and we were getting next
> to no useful work out of the box, we *demanded* that HP return and reset
> the HPSUSAN. This they did, and off we went again.
>
> And this was at a time, don't forget, when all the 3rd parties were
> still in business and still in the HP3000 business to boot. As 3rd
> parties drop out of the marketplace, we can only see this process
> getting more arduous.
>
> No names, no pack drill for the 'guilty' 3rd parties, but don't *ever*
> try to tell anybody here that the inability to preserve an HPSUSAN is no
> big deal.
>
> --
> Roy Brown        'Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be
> Kelmscott Ltd     useful, or believe to be beautiful'  William Morris