We have been running adsm 3.2.1.50 running on aix for several years. We
have written numerous korn shell scripts that do monitoring functions
like checking for offline drives, missed or failed schedules,
outstanding tape mounts, etc.

One important function is notifying our operators of a pending tape
mount for the 8mm drive which is used for our offsite media. In aix we
accomplish this by a script that tails the adsm console log so that
mount and other necessary messages can be trapped. Once trapped we
generate emails for some messages and for other messages we ftp jcl to
our os390 system. The job runs and puts up a mount message on the
operator console.

Now we are in the process of replacing adsm with tsm 4.1 which will run
on windows 2000. To ease the migration I installed cygwin (bash shell)
and blat (mail) so that most of our aix scripts would work with minor
modifications. However, the really important script that tails the
console log has some problems. It works fine for a while and then just
stops working. I have not had any luck diagnosing the problem so I have
been looking for alternatives. So far I have looked at event logging for
file, filetext, nteventlog and userexit and for various reasons have not
been successfull implementing them.

How do the rest of you handle notifying your operations staff of tsm
manual tape mount requests or other events that need attention?


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Steve Bennett, (907) 465-5783
Steve Bennett, (907) 465-5783
State of Alaska, Information Technology Group, Technical Services
Section