<<We have been experiencing a problem about once every month or two where an operator enters an incomplete console command. This can be anything from accidently hitting the space bar or any key and then not hitting the return key to just not finishing a command with return. We have installed a patch on all of our systems (we have about 70 HP3ks in our shop) which keep the systems from crashing when the console buffer fills up. However, we do not currently have any way to notify the operators that the console buffer is full. This causes the system performance to degrade to the point where a job which normally completes in 1 minute can run for hours. We are using OpC to monitor our systems and have many redundant checks built into the monitoring process, but we have not been able to come up with a way to notify the operators of this problem. We are currently using 5 HP ux workstations to monitor about 70 HP3k's and about 100 HP9k's using OpC. So my question is, does anyone know of any way to send console buffer full messages directly to OpC, or close the current console buffer when it reaches a certain limit, say 75%, and issue a console message that could be trapped by OpC and generate an alarm. Sorry for the looong sentence. This problem seems to always happen during critical customer times.>> We use the "quick hack" method: in a command file executed by a system-wide UDC, we have COMMENT************************************************************* COMMENT Ensure console has an active read timeout COMMENT************************************************************* IF HPLDEVIN = HPCONSOLE SETVAR HPTIMEOUT 20 ENDIF The obvious limitations on this are that it only works well if your console is not normally in use (ours isn't), and won't work if someone takes the console to another device. But, for unattended systems like ours, it helps save us from ourselves. Steve Dirickson WestWin Consulting (360) 598-6111 [log in to unmask]