Bill,
I am not sure whether the snmp monitor is sufficient... not that I've ever
managed to get it working in solaris (!). Nor is simply checking for the
presence of the process good enough. We've found that the server can on
occasion fail or timeout backup sessions, yet still accept admin
connections, and _appear_ to be working ok. So your test needs to do some
actual work.
What we do is run a script from cron every 15 mins for each tsm instance.
This calls a "dsmc incr" on a small directory where there will be changed
files (we use the monitor working directory itself), and expects to see (1)
a zero result code, and (2) a return within 2 minutes.
Any failure can then cause whatever notification event you like.
You should also write in an easy method of preventing notification for an
instance if you happen to be working on it - upgrading it for example.
regards,
-=Dave=-
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-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Boyer [mailto:bill.boyer AT VERIZON DOT NET]
Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 2:15 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Monitor TSM via SNMP
We've had a couple problems recently with TSM on AIX where the TSM server
crashed, but the AIX box stayed up and green on our Netview console. But TSM
was down, backups failed and we had an angry client. Is there a way we can
configure SNMP in TSM for strictly availability status? As long as TSM is
up, the icon is OK, but if TSM goes down/crashes, then the icon turns red
and our helpdesk can wake me up.
We thought about a small Perl script to logon to TSM, and if we couldn't
send a page.
How do others manage this?
Bill Boyer
DSS, Inc.
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