Conference azur::mcc

1119.0. "Questions on the toolkit" by GRANPA::DCOMFORT (Spent a little time on the mountain) Mon Jun 10 1991 14:21

    
    Hi -
    
    I am looking for some information about the MCC Developers Toolkit.
    
    1) Is this a product that requires a license?  The saveset seems to be
    mostly example programs, data definitions and documentation in
    postscript.
    
    2) My customer is interested in implementing a data collector and
    "alarming" module that will sense information on such things as CPU
    utilization over an averaged period, disk throughput, etc.  Their
    initial concept is to write the data collector and rule evaluator
    themselves and to use the DECAlert product to provide alarming.
    
    I suggested that if they need to do this in the short haul, ok, but
    they should look towards writing the code using data structures that
    could later be rolled into an access module in MCC and allow MCC to do
    the alarming in multiple modes for them, ie maps, mail and paging when
    DECalert gets "rolled" into MCC.
    
    I would be interested in obtaining for on how feasable the potential
    integration into MCC this idea is, or if I should just let them "do
    their own thing".  I have had no exposure to the Toolkit and therefore
    do not have a feel for the scope of such a project.
    
    Thanks for your input.
    
    Dave Comfort
    

The sample code, is actually a lot more than that. Part of the code is
a sample, the rest is actually a shell of an AM. The documentation explains
what to do to the shell to turn it into a real AM. The feedback on this
has been quite positive. Due to the in-depth introduction into MCC and
the step by step instructions they will probably find that either approach
(in or out of mcc) will take as long, with the internal approach giving them
more back for their effort.

To do what they are talking about inside of MCC there are two approaches.
	1) a new module, called the data collector AM, is currently under
	developement. This module will allow external applications to get
	their events into MCC; though what can be done with the data inside
	of MCC will not be as powerful as getting them in directly through
	their own AM

	2) this is to write their own AM to pick up the "events" and put them
	into MCC themselves through the GETEVENT directive.

Neither is too bad to do. As to the license question, I do believe it requires
you to purchase a 

    
    The DECmcc Developers Toolkit is a Product with a SPD (available
    on VTX) and a Q NUmber that is for the License :QL-YSWa9-aa and
    QL-yswaa-h5 for the H kit (Doc and Media).
    This is available since November 90 .
    
    	Regards ,
    
    MaRc