Re: Monitoring ADSM for errors.

Paul,
I, too,  would like to get a copy of the exec.

At 11:13 PM 5/20/97 -0400, you wrote:
>Wayne,
>I have a rexx exec that processes the last day's worth of activity log,
>stripping
>out all 'nominal' messages, summarizes others that repeat but are
interesting,
>logs the result for future reference, and mails to a list of adsm
>administrators.
>The goal is to keep the extracted log down to a screenful or two and review
>it in
>the morning.  The exec has gotten rather sophisticated; it now recognizes
>not only
>repeating messages but repeating sequences of messages, and summarizes them.
>
>I believe I made available a copy of this exec on index.storsys.ibm.com
>some time
>ago, and it should still be there.  It should be called daily.actlog.  It was
>written for Uni-rexx, to run on an AIX client.  It simply calls dsmadmc, so
>does
>not have to run on the server machine.
>
>If others are interested, I can make a more recent version of this available.
>..Paul
>--
>
>At 11:55 PM 5/19/97 -0400, Wayne Gorton wrote:
>>Howdy All,
>>I am currently revisiting the way we monitor ADSM's activity.
>>Our environment is 20 nodes backing up to 1 server (all on an SP) overnight.
>>We use NetView to monitor the file dsmerror.log. This issues all sorts of
>>messages that don't need to be passed onto NetView.
>>The manual "ADSM for AIX: Advanced Topics" recommends monitoring the console
>>log instead of the dsmerror.log (but doesn't say why).
>>The console log is piped out to /dev/null. Is this the norm?
>>Is there a mechanism for pruning the console log or dsmerror.log?
>>It also says to monitor for specific messages & ignore the rest.
>>I think it would be better to take a sample of the most common messages &
>>filter out the messages you don't need to see. This way should ADSM issue
any
>>new messages (in future versions) we won't be ignoring them.
>>
>>What's the consensus, monitor the console log or dsmerror.log?
>>What does everyone else do?
>>
>>I'd welcome any opinions/advise before I start scripting.
>>
>>Role:                               Unix System Administrator
>>Style:                              The Thinking Man's Clown
>>Name:                               wayneg AT au1.ibm DOT com
>>Life:       "Imagination is more important than knowledge"   Albert Einstein
>>
>
>

Have a nice day or whatever's left of it.

David Ong
National Semiconductor Corp.