RE: How long to really setup a VMS system ?

Yes and some cd installs will only go so fast in my experience

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From: "davidc@xxxxxxxxxxxx" <davidc@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Info-VAX@xxxxxxxxxxxx" <Info-VAX@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: 01/19/07 10:09 PM
Subject: Re: How long to really setup a VMS system ?


JF Mezei wrote:
OK, I know, insert CD, boot the alpha from CD and follow the prompts and
you have VMS running in about an hour.

But in reality, how long does it REALLY take to get a virgin system fully
loaded with all the prerequisite stuff, configured, tested and ready to go
into production without any more improvements being done to it ?

(I am talking about full IP stack, extra utilities like ethermon loaded,
SNMP/syslog configured to talk to the rest of the corporate network, email,
various automated system monitoring tasks , handling if system failures and
ensuring the systartup_vms and shyshutdown procedures are complet and
robost etc etc.

In other words, how long does it take to get a system from fully naked to
fully dressed in formal wear, realy to go a lights out fully automated state ?

(as opposed to a customer starting to be able to use it even though the
system may still need nightly reboots to test new procedures etc)

Well, I rebuild the server hosting the Hobbyist System. OpenVMS, IP
Stack, MySQL, Apache, PHP, and some other toys. Took about a day for
most. A lot of it was testing, rebooting (to test systartup), and
such.

For some basic stuff, it doesn't take that long. But there are always
changes (i.e. updating software, adding/subtracting apps, etc), so it's
rarely a static things.

A lot of it is being methodical about stuff. Making a list of all the
things you need, making sure you have all the configuration info you
need, knowing what all startup components need to be tested. Have a
plan and task list first, then start installing things.

.

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