You don't say what your ADSM server platform is...

but you can certainly process the event log with a program to find
missed/failed backups (which we do, and send email messages to the
interested parties).

You might also want to know that for non-event log error messages, ADSM is
already SNMP enabled.
You can turn on the dsmsnmp daemon (that's for the AIX server platform) and
have any ACTLOG messages you select (or all of them, if you're a masochist)
forwarded to your logging server.

Look for "SNMP" in the index of the ADMIN guide for more info.
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The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab
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wanda_prather AT jhuapl DOT edu

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Swan/TM [SMTP:Daniel.Swan AT TELUS DOT COM]
> Sent: Friday, September 08, 2000 12:57 PM
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      Monitoring, and Generating alerts from ADSM.
>
> My org has determined that they'd like to incorporate ADSM into our
> existing
> alert infrastructure.   I figure it's a matter of parsing the event log,
> formatting the
> information, and writing it to a logfile.  The logfile is then read by a
> daemon, and
> forwarded to the Alert/Logging server.  Failed/missed backups will result
> in
> a late-nite page.
> (Oh goody!).
>
> Before I go about doing this though, I'd like to know about methods you
> folks have
> used for monitoring ADSM, how it is architectured, and any code you'd care
> to share.
>
> No sense re-inventing the wheel.
>
> Best regards,
> Dan.