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Re: SNMP and Client Backup Failures

2005-07-15 14:49:20
Subject: Re: SNMP and Client Backup Failures
From: "Prather, Wanda" <Wanda.Prather AT JHUAPL DOT EDU>
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 14:49:03 -0400
Yes and no, depending on what you mean.
There isn't a TSM SNMP agent on the client end.

But, there are many ways to get good results, if you have an SNMP trap
receiver console (like Netview or Openview, for example).

- Remember that most TSM client errors are forwarded up to the TSM
server and logged in the activity log, just like server errors.  So if
you have the TSM server forwarding events to an SNMP trap receiver, just
include those error messages in the list of messages TSM forwards to
Openview.  For example:

07/14/2005 18:00:01   ANR2578W Schedule SCHD_WINCLIENT_INCR_AM in domain

                       PDOM_WINCLIENT for node SPDFAC1 has missed its

                       scheduled start up window.       

If you include ANR2578W in the list of messages you forward from the TSM
server to Openview, this is what you see.

- Remember that you can query the TSM server using the TSM admin command
client (dsmadmc).  And there is a trapgen.exe module  that you can
invoke with parms to create your own traps.  So, it is pretty easy to
write a perl or kornshell script that runs via cron, does "q event * * "
(or the equivalent in a SELECT), parse the output, formats a message
with the failed/missed node names, and sends it to Openview via
trapgen.

Wanda Prather
"I/O, I/O, It's all about I/O"  -(me)


-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Hart, Charles
Sent: Friday, July 15, 2005 9:42 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: SNMP and Client Backup Failures


Is anyone using TSM's SNMP agent to trap client backup failures?  I see
people are using snmp to monitor server errors but what about the
clients.  Is this possible?

Regards,

Charles 

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