ADSM-L

Re: email notification

1995-06-23 23:12:23
Subject: Re: email notification
From: "Keith A. Crabb" <KEITH AT UHUPVM1.UH DOT EDU>
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 1995 22:12:23 CDT
On Thu, 22 Jun 1995 15:47:18 EDT Paul Zarnowski said:
>On Thu, 22 Jun 1995 14:41:12 EDT Bob Klein said:
>>A possible complication to using the output from query event
>>to trigger email -- I have seen instances in which query event
>>reported that a scheduled backup completed when, in fact, it
>>did not.  The particular situation involved the adsm client
>>not being able to access the disk it was supposed to backup,
>>and then timing out.  Apparently the scheduler thought the
>>session had ended normally.
>
>Has a PMR been opened for this?  Do you know if IBM considers this a bug
>or a feature?  I, for one, view this is a serious problem.
>
>On a related issue, our notification process first does a Q EVENT.  However,
>if a Q EVENT does not show that the latest backup was successful, the
>process then does a Q FILESPACE to see if a manual backup has been done.
>It checks the "last backup completion date/time" to determine this.  This
>is not perfect, but I believe is better than just relying on Q EVENT.  If
>a user has a filespace in ADSM that does not get backed up regularly by
>the scheduler, then Q EVENT will show success (if the scheduler finished ok)
>but Q FILESPACE will probably flag the filespace as not having been backed
>up.  Our E-mail shows each filespace in this event, so the user can decide
>for themselves how seriously they want to treat the mailfile.
>..Paul

I've found a problem I haven't called in since I'm on another project for
about 4-5 weeks.  I keep seeing events which are placed in a started
status but never complete or fail.  It's definitely a client error which
causes it, if their isn't enough memory available or such.  The connection
is made but just times out and even though the time out is reported in the
activity log the event is never updated and query event just continues to
show started.  I'm only at L0.12 though, it may have been fixed in a later
release.  If someone wants to check that out, feel free, otherwise, I'll
get to it when I get back to my real job in about a month.

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Keith A. Crabb         Keith AT UH DOT EDU
Keith A. Crabb         Keith AT UH DOT EDU
University of Houston  Operating Systems Specialist +1-713-743-1530
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