    H                     ____________________________________________________#                     Resource Broker 5                     Release Notes for OpenVMS Systems   !                     February 1995       B                     This document contains information about knownI                     problems and restrictions in this version of Resource /                     Broker for OpenVMS Systems.                   F                     Revision/Update Information:  Resource Broker V1.0                1                     Digital Equipment Corporation *                     Maynard, Massachusetts                 N               ________________________________________________________________                 February 1995   C               The information in this document is subject to change H               without notice and should not be construed as a commitmentA               by Digital Equipment Corporation. Digital Equipment G               Corporation assumes no responsibility for any errors that *               may appear in this document.  H               The software described in this document is furnished underI               a license and may be used or copied only in accordance with (               the terms of such license.  E               No responsibility is assumed for the use or reliability F               of software on equipment that is not supplied by Digital@               Equipment Corporation or its affiliated companies.  G               Restricted Rights: Use, duplication, or disclosure by the H               U.S. Government is subject to restrictions as set forth inI               subparagraph (c)(1)(ii) of the Rights in Technical Data and =               Computer Software clause at DFARS 252.227-7013.   H                Digital Equipment Corporation 1995. All Rights Reserved.  ?               The following are trademarks of Digital Equipment C               Corporation: Alpha AXP, AXP, Bookreader, DEC, DECnet, F               DECwindows, DEC Fortran, DIGITAL, OpenVMS, VAX, VMS, and               the DIGITAL logo.   >               PostScript is a trademark of Adobe Systems, Inc.                   -               Known Problems and Restrictions   '               o  Resource Broker Server   G                  -  In certain unknown circumstances, a Resource Broker G                     Server may continue to grow in virtual memory usage E                     over time until its pagefile quota is reached. In D                     such cases, the server should be restarted usingH                     the Resource Broker Management utility (RB$SETUP) as3                     shown in the following command:   2                      @SYS$MANAGER:RB$SETUP RESTART  G                  -  For certain Resource Broker configurations in which I                     there are one or more Resource Broker Replica servers F                     in addition to the required Resource Broker MasterD                     Server, there are situations in which the MasterE                     and Replica(s) may become partitioned. Under such D                     circumstances, query results may be inconsistentC                     depending upon the particular master or replica 6                     server that responds to the query.  G                     Typically, this problem can be corrected by issuing G                     the RB$SETUP utility operation RESTART on each host H                     providing a master or replica server. If the problemF                     still persists, it may be necessary to stop one orH                     more of the replica servers, with the STOP operation,                     of the RB$SETUP utility.  (               o  Resource Manager Daemon  E                  -  If a Resource Manager cannot communicate with the D                     Resource Broker upon initial startup, the daemonC                     will abort after 100 attempts. If this happens, E                     the communication problem should be fixed and the I                     daemon restarted using the Resource Broker Management                      utility.  B                     Note that after successful initialization of aE                     Resource Manager, there is no limit to the number F                     of retries when attempting to communicate with the$                     Resource Broker.  B                  -  If a Resource Manager is stopped, and a serverB                     application that was previously started by theF                     Resource Manager continues to generate output, theG                     server application will eventually fill the OpenVMS G                     mailbox used by the Resource Manager to communicate   I                                                                         1                    B                     with the application, and the application will                     terminate.  )               o  Graphical User Interface   B                  -  The watch cursor does not get set for all longA                     operations in all windows of the application.   G                  -  Online help is supported and provides access to the I                     Resource Broker documentation. However, the number of H                     contexts in which the help topic has been customized                     is limited.   F                  -  The Resource Broker user interface will attempt toD                     refresh the user's identity before it expires byF                     asking the user's DCE password. If the identity isD                     not successfully refreshed prior to the securityH                     system purge of the expired credentials, then eitherC                     of the following DCE messages may be displayed:   ;                          Context handle not valid (dce/sec)   6                          auth ticket expired (dce/rpc)  F                     Typically, the DCE message will be preceded by theC                     Resource Broker message "Resource Broker Server !                     Unavailable".   G                     If this happens, the Resource Broker user interface F                     must be exited, a new DCE login performed, and the-                     user interface restarted.   G                  -  The "Update Attributes" button in the server window D                     does not work correctly if you have not selectedC                     a server. In particular, if you have selected a D                     server attribute instead of a server, the updateI                     does not occur. No error or warning message is issued F                     to indicate that the update has not been performedE                     in this case. If no selection is made at all, you G                     may get a message to "Please make a selection", but ?                     sometimes you will get only a warning beep.   G                  -  Depending upon the scale factor used in the Monitor G                     window graph, servers with a prioritization that is E                     very small are not visually distinct from servers G                     that have been reported as unreliable. To make this I                     distinction, you can display the Servers window which   	         2                    H                     uses a special icon to represent servers reported as                     unreliable.   '               o  Command-line Interface   #                  No known problems.                                                                               I                                                                         3 