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Conference 44.370::system_management

Title:system management communications forum
Moderator:CHEST::THOMPSON
Created:Fri Mar 21 1986
Last Modified:Thu Jul 08 1993
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:490
Total number of notes:2018

181.0. "Stopit, Stopit wherefore art thou????" by FOOT::DAW (Licensed S.P.G tamer) Wed Oct 05 1988 14:08

    
    Once upon a time there was a happy little machine called STOPIT.
    It had no say in it's choice of name, what its logicals were called,
    and frequently ran out of disk space as the horrible disk-space-
    gobbling-monster kept ramming it full of out of date save-sets and
    log files.
    
    But one bleak Winter day (summer actually, but this is a fairytale),
    the mean system-management-machine-gobbler-cluster-spewer came along
    and breated fire on poor STOPIT. After that it's name was changed
    to a much less aromatic name 'FOOT', all it's disk-name logicals were
    changed, and it became just a weeny part of the 
    great-big-adgsaurus-cluster. Nobody liked FOOT. INCH, MILE and YARD
    kept going down just so that they could get away from it, and until
    this day FOOT is an orphan, which isn't living happily ever after!
    
    This was an extract from 'A biography of a social outcast', published
    by 'System Manglement' at #2.95 from all leading booksellers. Order
    your copy from IS/ops on 4040
    
    This note was brought to you by the Bring Back Stopit Fan-club !
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181.1Life is not so bad...GROYNE::HAYESIan Hayes, DTN 781 ext 4327Wed Oct 05 1988 16:1228
    There are many good reasons why STOPIT has been incorporated into
    the ADG cluster and it will actually yield more benefits than
    penalties.
    
    Firstly, it was always intended that STOPIT would one day become
    a cluster. Unfortunately the big bad wolf called 'Budget-cuts' got
    its teeth into what was going to become STOPIT's sister.
    
    The computer resources in ADG had to be realigned to distribute the
    workload. The users of the ADG cluster were really struggling on an
    overloaded machine. In addition, as you rightly point out, STOPIT was
    regularly banging it proverbial head on the ceiling of its disk
    capacity. 
    
    With the new arrangment, ADG users have more power to their elbow,
    STOPIT users have more disk space and have the reliability advantage
    of being in a cluster.
    
    Finally, in the not too distant future (any comment Steve?) the
    ADG cluster will acquire another 8700 processor which will make
    it far more powerful again.

    So, don't grieve the loss of our good friend STOPIT. After all,
    he is not lost, merely clustered with more machines of his own kind.
    And who knows - maybe they'll breed and the INCH/FOOT/YARD/MILE
    cluster will have lots of little CENTIMETRES!
    
    Ian
181.2STOPIT::RUSSELLI've never seen it do *that* before!Wed Oct 05 1988 18:0212
    re .1
    
    >And who knows - maybe they'll breed and the INCH/FOOT/YARD/MILE
    >cluster
        
    So much for the metrication drive!!!! 
    
    Oh well.
    
    Peter.
181.3Very Funny !!!CHEST::BARKEROnly 17 weeks until SkiingWed Oct 05 1988 18:1112
    re -2
    
>        STOPIT users have more disk space and have the reliability advantage
>        of being in a cluster.
    
    Ha Ha !!
    
    Hopefully they are only teething problems :-)
    
    Chris
181.4STOPIT's VTX database?THROAT::CLARKASC, a mad ScotThu Oct 06 1988 11:453
    Can anybody tell me where the STOPIT VTX database is located now?
    
    Stewart
181.5STOPIT's VTX service comes back from the grave !FOOT::DAWLicensed S.P.G tamerThu Oct 06 1988 13:4420
    
    The VTX Managers account was retrieved yesterday from a dark dank
    cellar in the middle of nowhere.
    
    The Text Retrieval Unit have taken over control of the VTX service on
    the ADG cluster and all should be well within a week or so. Certain
    command procedures and object numbers need to be modified before
    the good old STOPIT VTX service can come back from the dead. The
    present ADG VTX service will continue to operate until we get the STOPIT
    service going again.
    
    For all those who use the ADG VTX service, those menu options will
    be available from the new service, but with a swish, new, updated
    TRU look!!!
    
    If anyone has any problems with the merger of STOPIT and the ADG
    cluster concerning VTX, don't hesitate to contact the Text Retrieval
    Unit, who will be glad to help