Mine is similar, but I found that "q drive" rarely hangs in a busy
system.  This follows a series of "ping" to check if the network connection
is up (someone else gets called then).

If operations gets notified by the server checker, they have an icon on
their workstation which leads them to an "ssh" session on the server with a
TSM menu.  That gives them a script to see if "dsmserv" is running (much
like the one that Miles posted a few minutes ago), a script to halt TSM  if
it is hung, and a restart script.  Only if they can't restart TSM, i.e., if
they keep getting notifications, do they call someone.


At 10:52 AM 3/15/2002 -0600, you wrote:

Here is what I do (crude, but it works).  I do this from a box that TSM
is not running on, in case not only TSM crashes, but the whole box
crashes:

#!/usr/bin/ksh

ADMIN=userid
ADMINPASS=passwrd
ADSMPATH=/usr/bin

$ADSMPATH/dsmadmc -id=$ADMIN -password=$ADMINPASS q proc > /tmp/proc.out
temp=`grep -c AIX /tmp/proc.out`

if  [ "$temp" = "0" ]; then
        /usr/bin/mailx user@email < /usr/local/adsmdown
fi


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On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Marc Levitan wrote:

> Hi All -
>
> Does anyone have a script that will send out an email alert if the TSM
> server goes down.
>
> I am running AIX 4.3.0
> TSM 3.7.4
>
> Thanks!
> Marc Levitan
> Storage Manager
> PFPC Global Fund Services
>