Hello Ken,
Look at the ADSM V3 announcement at
http://www.storage.ibm.com/storage/software/adsm
ADSM V3 will offer a way to centralize some or all of the client logging
on the server platform.
Maybe shall this be a good solution to (y)our control problem.
Francis
Ken Rackow wrote:
>
> We have installed ADSM V2.1.9 on an MVS server, and back up about 20
> Netware, NT, UNIX, and OS/2 clients nightly. Currently, every
> morning, I look at the "Days Since Last Backup Completion" field of
> the File Spaces section of the Admin GUI to determine the completion
> status of last night's backups. I know that logging information is
> also available as ASCII text on the file systems of each of the
> individual clients, which would also tell me if the previous night's
> backups completed successfully.
>
> Is there any simple way to automate backup status reporting for
> individual clients? I know that I could write a combination of batch
> files and scripts that would extract the relevant data and write it to
> one file somewhere, but that would still require someone to actually
> remember to look at the file or read an e-mail. Is there a way to see
> successful (or the rare unsuccessful) completion information at the
> MVS console? If there was, Data Center Operations staff could inform
> ADSM administrators if and when there was a problem. The same
> personnel, at any given time, would know which backups were running,
> or had completed, without having to enter an admin session. From
> looking at the documentation, it looks like I can see client start and
> finish information, but not whether the backup was successful.
>
> Has anyone else had to deal with this issue?
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