I'd like to be able to monitor TSM server messages so that I can (for
example) raise alerts to our in-house monitoring/alert system.

My preference would be to pass the details of event messages to a script,
which can then "decide" what action to take. Using a script will make it
easy for other Unix Admins to configure the monitoring in future. The sample
"user exit" source code advises that the system() function should not be
used - So I thought a simple way around this would be to set-up a "file
exit" which writes to a named pipe and have a "C" program read the messages
and launch the script.

I presume that this has already been thought of - So I was wondering if
anybody has tried it? If so are there any problems?

Many Thanks,
   =Adrian=