Hi Jerry,

One thing that I've thought about doing on occasion (but haven't actually
done anything about it) is to have an ADSM server scheduled job that runs on
each of the ADSM clients late in afternoon, before everyone goes home for
the day, that doesn't actually do a backup; maybe some sort of OS command.
The job would need to have a reasonably short startup window. Then, for any
job that has a status of 'Missed', there is some sort of problem. You then
have the opportunity to fix the problem before the backups are due to run.


Trevor

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jerry Caupain [SMTP:j.caupain AT AMSTERDAM DOT NL]
> Sent: Wednesday, 31 March 1999 2:17 am
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      check if scheduler is running
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> I would like to know is the scheduler is running on all my client nodes
> before the backup starts. Is there a way to check this without logging
> on to the client? You'd think that it would be very easy since the
> server ( depending on the scheduler mode) has to contact the client in
> order to start the backup. I was thinking of something like:
>
> q activesched [node] *
>
> I would issue this command just before the backup starts.
> This way I'd know that communication between the client and server is OK
> and if not, log on to the client and start the scheduler.
> Does something like this excist????????
> And if not, ( to ADSM developement....) will something like this be
> possible in the near future?
>
> Thanx in advance for your comments on this matter.
>
> Jerry Caupain
> RS6000 Specialist
> Civility Amsterdam BV