I'm having to re-invent the wheel myself. I'd appreciate
a peek at what you're using to parse the logs, etc.

In my environment, I'm going to need to check NT, Netware,
Solaris, and AIX. At this point, the lowest common denominator
is ftp to get the files, and perl or ksh to parse them.

Any tips would be appreciated.

Thanks, [RC]


On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 07:47:42PM -0700, Luke Dahl wrote:
> We currently have a procedure for that in place.  We have a script that
> scans the event log and parses each line that has a missed, failed or
> pending message to a file.  Using the file, we send an e-mail to each user
> informing them their backup missed, failed or was pending at the time we
> scanned the event log.  We use e-mail addresses in the contact field, and
> use that to send an e-mail to whichever node has missed, failed or is
> pending a successful backup.  If the backup/archive was successful, we don't
> send them anything.  We're running on AIX 4.3.2, but I'm sure this could be
> easily ported to OS390.  I can provide further information if you like.
>
> Luke Dahl
> NASA-Jet Propulsion Laboratory
>
> Mark Stapleton wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 21 Sep 2001 16:31:14 -0600, it was written:
> > >We have recently installed a TSM 4.2.0 server on OS/390.  We are
> > >interested in emailing relevant portions of the activity log and/or the
> > >event log to a contact person for each client, informing them of the
> > >results of their scheduled backups or archives.
> > >
> > >Has anyone implemented such a system?  If so, how?
> >
> > Why? The dsmsched.log file already on each client contains this
> > information.
> >
> > --
> > Mark Stapleton (stapleton AT berbee DOT com)