Stefan,

I wrote a backup script which checks the errorlevel after the excdsmc
command is executed, this errorlevel could then be passed onto our
scheduling package Contol M. Unfortunately this did not function as
intended. The Connect Agent often outputs an errorlevel of 0 when a backup
has failed. I opened up an ETR on this and an APAR was generated.

APAR # IC23616

EXCHANGE CONNECT AGENT GIVES SUCCESSFUL RETURN CODE IF THE
EXCHANGE ERROR NUMBER RETURNED IS UNKNOWN.

However after talking with IBM support about this I'm not sure how this one
is going to be resolved.

I was under the impression that the Connect Agent would be able to output an
equivalent errorlevel at the command interpretor for the backup error
encountered. The Win32 BA Client already does this.

I therefore purposefully made the Connect Agent fail by introducing errors
into the dsm.opt file such as incorrect nodename or incorrect
tcpserveraddress. These generated the appropriate error message in the
connect agent error log. i.e. ANS1353E (RC53)   Session rejected: Unknown or
incorrect ID entered and ANS1017E (RC-50)  Session rejected: TCP/IP
connection failure.

However in each case the errorlevel returned at the Command interpretor was
Errorlevel306. (Funnily enough if you cancel a session half way through the
backup which again causes a ANS1017E (RC-50)  Session rejected: TCP/IP
connection failure, the connect agent returns error level 0)

IBM support indicated that this resulted from the last known error within
the ADSM/EXCHANGE API conversation.

I'm wondering now if it's going to be possible for the developers to be able
to code in something whereby the actual ADSM/EXCHANGE error is held in a
variable which is in turn output at the command interpretor level.

Nathan


        -----Original Message-----
        From:   Dusedau, Stefan [SMTP:Stefan.Dusedau AT VIACOM DOT COM]
        Sent:   Wednesday, April 28, 1999 7:56 AM
        To:     ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
        Subject:        Exchange agent reporting

        Does anyone have a method for reporting on the status of the
exchange agent
        backups? We use the event records for most of our nodes but the
exchange
        agent event is the running of the batch command that starts the
backup, so
        the event does not report the actual status of the backup.

        Thank You,

        Stefan Dusedau
        infoWorks
        A Viacom technology service
        (212)258-6739
        stefan.dusedau AT viacom DOT com <mailto:stefan.dusedau AT viacom DOT 
com>