Can you please contact me offline on this? I am very interested.
Regards, Giulio John Tarella
Notes:John Tarella/Italy/IBM@IBMIT
Email: tarella AT ibm DOT net
IBM Global Services


We (IBM Global Services) start the ADSM server with a perl script, like this:

  open(SRVR,"dsmserv |")

The perl script can then monitor the output of the dsmserv process, and send
pages or email when it sees error messages.

We also have a perl script which reads through the activity log looking for
interesting events like:
migration begins / ends
expiration begins /ends
reclamation or move data begins/ends
node session begins/ends
tape mount/dismount
dsmserv restart

and prints out a timestamp and some numbers, so we can graph all this stuff.
It's hard to read 10,000 lines of activity log every day, but looking at a
graph is easier.  We also graph storage pool size (both disk and tape) that's
been useful for convincing customers that they really do need to buy more tape
storage.