7 May
2020
7 May
'20
9:15 p.m.
On May 7, 2020, at 1:03 PM, Paul Koning <paulkoning
at comcast.net> wrote:
The mapper uses "show exec char", "show act node status", and
"show act circ status". For exec char, all it needs is name and type. For act
node, it wants node id/name, plus the circuit and type if the node is adjacent, though it
can do without since some other implementations don't implement that. For act circ it
needs the node id/name.
I think I have all that. I?ve been playing with changing the format for id/name so
that if the name is not present, I only send the id - this stops VMS displaying a node as
?4.19 ()? and makes it ?4.19?. So a node will be sent as CM-2, DU-2, AI-6 if a name is
present and CM-1, DU-2 if not.
John.
paul
On May 7, 2020, at 12:54 PM, John Forecast
<john at forecast.name <mailto:john at forecast.name>> wrote:
On May 4, 2020, at 7:54 PM, Paul Koning
<paulkoning at comcast.net <mailto:paulkoning at comcast.net>> wrote:
I just added ?show active circuits? and ?show active nodes? to the Linux NICE
server. Are there any other functions that are needed? If anyone is interested in trying
it out, the source code is available on github:
<https://github.com/JohnForecast/RaspbianDECnet
<https://github.com/JohnForecast/RaspbianDECnet>>
Note that the README.Raspbian file documents a change in how to start up DECnet which is
required for the above changes.
John.
On May 4, 2020, at 7:24 PM, Johnny Billquist
<bqt at softjar.se <mailto:bqt at softjar.se>> wrote:
On 2020-05-05 00:29, Thomas DeBellis wrote:
> I guess a number of things might be happening to build the map, then?
> 1. Johnny's database gets queried for relevant data
> 2. A DECnet NICE query is sent, yet these data stores do not have
> complete information
> 3. SNMP query
Yes, I think the idea would be something like that.
Correct. However, there is no need to do both 2 and 3, so worrying about SNMP on TOPS-20
(or RSX) isn't necessary. I can get everything I need from a working NICE
implementation. It can even be somewhat buggy; for example I have a workaround that skips
some of the requests when talking to an endnode because of a RSTS bug. It does have to be
minimally sane: the Linux NICE server is so utterly broken that it might as well not exist
at all.