Re: Rumba & Qctl -- MIDRANGE-L

At 07:13 PM 12/29/97 +0000, you wrote:
>I'm running a HP PC with Rumba and attempting to use QCTL as the 
>controlling subsystem. The main reason is that I use this PC to dial 
>in from home vai PC Anywhere..... 
>
>What's been happening is that I can't get it to connect to QCTL, it 
>always wants to connect to QINTER. I've added the workstation entry 
>in the subsystem description and have verified that's it's name 
>etc... sometimes if I turn the PC off and turn it back on (maybe even 
>several times) it finally does connect to QCTL. 

Joanie,  Take a look at the section in the work management guide that deals
with how devices are allocated by subsystems.  Subsystem device allocation
is not as intuitive as you probably had hoped, but once you read this short
section you'll understand the behavior you're seeing.  

To piggy back onto Bob Larkin's comments, it's the fact that QINTER is
activated after QCTL that causes your device to be allocated to QINTER.
Last subsystem up gets it.  

You could also solve this by creating a duplicate of the QINTER subsystem
called NIGHTINTER.  Remove all of the workstation entries from NIGHTINTER,
and then add one back in that names your device specifically.  Then when you
bring down QINTER, start subsystem NIGHTINTER.  Now you'll have a subsystem
that can only be accessed by your dial in PC.

>You may ask why I need it to QCTL ?  Well, at night we back our 
>system up and we end the subsystem QINTER to make sure all the users 
>are off the system. This way we get a good, clean backup.  Although 
>what happens is that if the backup fails (controlled by a CL), the 
>subsystem QINTER does not come back up and the users call me wanting 
>the system back.  If I dial in and the PC is on Qinter, I won't be 
>able to remedy the situation. 

Ya' know, even under the current situation, I'd wager that if you've
succesfully added the device to QCTL, that once QINTER ends, QCTL is going
to allocate that device.  It's likely that you're fine with your current
arrangement, it just looks wrong during daylight housr (when QINTER is up).
Have you experience to the contrary?


>
>So, any ideas why this frickin' workstation refuses to stay in the 
>controlling subsytem of QCTL ?   

Again, last subsystem up wins the device.



HTH,

jte

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