We recently experienced a problem with overnight jobs which were held up due to a user-job unexpectedly requesting a tape mount after the operators had gone home for the night. Because of this a backup was not done, and when the prior backup DAT snapped during RESTORE, we found ourselves in an embarrassing situation. This started me thinking about how we might have broken the chain of events described above, and how nice it would be to have the HP3000 tell us if certain unusual categories of events occurred. Ideally, in the above situation it would detect the tape request not being serviced, and take some action - for instance abort the job, or page an operator. Having recently installed the new SNMP capable OpenView /Windows 7.2 for our DTCManager upgrade, I noticed that paging software was shipped with the standard version of OpenView NodeManager, and that the network management software could potentially be a centralized solution for reporting problems on DTC's HP3000's, and HP9000's in our computing environment. On the HP3000 side, command procedures supplied with the SNMP component of MPE/iX could be used to send a SNMP trap to the OpenView workstation. The only missing piece is how to detect the abnormal events to be reported. Apparently this must be possible, because HP's OpenView/Operations Centre product seems to be able to do this, unfortunately, at over A$100,000 it is a few orders of magnitude too expensive for our budget! The nearest I have come is an Interex CSL program written in Turbo/Pascal which uses a PC to monitor console messages and work a pager, so if anybody knows of a lights-out operations monitor program for the 3000, resonably-priced which would help me avoid the scenario described above, I would like to hear about it. Thanks in advance, Andrew McClaren Systems Manager RMIT, Melbourne - Australia [log in to unmask]