30-May-2014

System update succeeded
As expected, the update of Diana from VMS 8.3 to 8.4 went smoothly, as was installation of the required patches. Just rebooting the system after the first inslatted patch (Update 7) raised an eyebrow because shutting down took an unexpected amount of time – but in the end, no action was required, and all subsequent reboots went as smoothly as expected. The whole action took about three hours; the environment has been set up that between reboots, mail could be delivered (spamfilter and mailserver were accesible) but web and related – including continued monitoring – were not started so there is a gap in the performance statistics – no problem.
And yes: the problem with the CRTL that I mentioned is indeed gone.
There are more side-effects that came with the reboots: The throttle settings on the blogs are now correct, as well as the Soymail configuration. It turned out the issues I had were caused by the failure to locate .CSS files and a javascript-file, likely because some logicals weren’t defined in the proper state. Plus that I have the impression that the webserver can react more quickly. Nut there is no hard evidence, yet.
Next step is testing PHP 5.3 (where I had problems in 8.3 but none in 8.4 on the test system) and updating WordPress. It means the blogs may be inaccessible, or show problems.
Update
There is onew little problem – with POP, I think. When mail is retrieved using the POP protocol, the headers are not separated from the message, and Mime is not translated within Outlook, where it did work properly before. It might have been solved in a TCPIP patch – this wasn’t done today – or it could be a setting within the SMTP and/or POP configuration. However, the VMS documentation that is available online is not updated to version 5.7!. Scanning through the configuration files, it looks all
it all is defines properly, as it should be in the previous version. So this is something to dive into very soon!