Andy,

        What release of Netview are you using? On what operating system?
Is that 'builtin' paging software standard or an extra feature?

Becky Herbison
Thomson Consumer Electronics


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sutton, Andy [SMTP:asutton AT SMMI DOT COM]
> Sent: Monday, April 13, 1998 11:13 AM
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      Re: Notification & Monitoring software
>
> I know your problem.  I just wrote a series of shell scripts to check
> the
> backups, monitor server space, etc. and then I email and call on
> paging
> software to send out notification of problems.  It has worked pretty
> well
> over the years.  I use the paging software that is builtin to NetView
> but
> there are many others out there.  Most large paging companies will
> even page
> via email over the Internet nowadays.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Smith, Richard [mailto:smithrr AT MARITZ DOT COM]
> Sent: Monday, April 13, 1998 11:00 AM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: Notification & Monitoring software
>
>
> ADSMer's,
>
>         Let's get the technical info out of the way:
>
> Server: OS/390 V3 R1
> Clients: NT 4.0 V3 R1 L0.1, Novell Netware 3.x, 4.x V3 R1 L0.1
>
>         We are badly in need of a software that monitors ADSM, and
> sends
> out notifications when backup schedules don't run!!  Currently the
> only
> way we find this out is the next morning when it's too late.  We could
> also use it for other purposes such as monitoring the database
> capacity,
> making sure the server is up, ect...  If anyone has any suggestions it
> would be much appreciated.
>
>         Currently, we are looking at a couple of products, Tivoli/Plus
> and SAMS:Vantage DP.  Any comments on these software packages??
>
> Thanks,
> Rick Smith
> Maritz, Inc.
> Storage & Security Administration
> smithrr AT maritz DOT com
> (314) 827-1584