> AIX 4.3 server, ADSM 3.1.2.40
>
> I would like to produce daily reports of things like database
> usage, scratch tapes available and so on and have this mailed
> to me. I can see how this can be done by issuing admin batch
> commands from a shell script which is run by cron - but I'm not
> comfortable about having the adsm admin password available in clear
> text in these scripts.
>
> I have been trying to explore the alternative of using administrative
> command schedules but there seems to be no way to redirect the
> output to a file. You cannot run macros from a schedule and there
> appears to be no way to supply redirection to adsm server scripts,
> either when defining the script or when specifying the run command
> to the scheduler.
>
> The only possibility I can see is scheduling an adsm server script
> which writes the result to the activity and console logs. I could
> then try and extract the information from the console log.
>
> Has anyone managed to get information out of ADSM in a secure
> and less kludgy manner ?
>
> +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
>  Steven Bridge     Systems Group, Information Systems, EISD
>                           University College London
>  email: s.bridge AT ucl.ac DOT uk                   tel: +44 (0)20 7679 2794