FROM   :   Christian Moser
                M001CC.CMOSER
                Christian Moser at BE2006

     DATE   :   03/21/96
     SUBJECT:   Re: Central Logging of Client

     Hallo,

     thanks for asking!

     Mainly we agree with the statements made by Paul Zarnowski which are
     appended below. We have two ammendments:

     1) Please improve the result information in case of a failed event.

     2) Please add client software level information in dsmsched.log.


     Paul Zarnowski said:

    >You know, I would be happy if I were simply able to recover the
    >backup copies of the ADSM log files, if a couple of changes were
    >made:
    >
    >1.  Back up the log files as the last part of doing a backup.  This
    >will
    >help to ensure that the latest backup copy contains the info you want.
    >The only thing missing would be the summary.  If you could somehow
    >include that as well, then you'd have everything.  If not, then at
    >least you would be able to get it from the prior days (just not the
    >most recent day).
    >
    >2.  Make it possible to recover the log files from one place,
    >regardless
    >of what type of platform the client was.  I.e., if I use an AIX system
    >to do my analysis, I would want to be able to recover log files from
    >any clients, not just the AIX clients.  This would be similar to just
    >automatically having an access-control rule allowing me to access the
    >log files on this node, and not requiring me to have a similar
    >platform type to that of the client node.
    >
    >This way, once I have the client log files, I can see exactly what the
    >client sees, and if I want to do any filtering I can do it on my end.
    >Also, this solution would not take up any significant extra database
    >space, which frankly worries me.
    >
    >By the way... When a scheduled backup fails, there is an error code
    >associated with the event.  Are these error codes actually documented
    >anywhere?


     Very sincerely yours
     Christian Moser,           Internet: christian.moser AT schering DOT de
     SCHERING AG, 13342 Berlin, Tel.: (030)4681356 Fax: (030)46916719



____________________________ Antwort-Abtrennung ________________________________
Betreff: Central Logging of Client
Autor:  ADSML (INTERNET.ADSML1) bei SNAPI
Datum:    06.03.1996 22:37


     FROM   :
                INTERNET.ADSML1
                ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU

     DATE   :   03/06/96
     SUBJECT:   Central Logging of Client

ADSM Development is looking into a design for centralized logging of client
errors so they could be queried by administrators, and we would like to get
some customer input to the design.  The initial requirement is for
centralized logging pertaining to scheduled commands with potential to expand
that to all ADSM client commands, whether scheduled or not.  We're interested
in hearing what you would like to see reported from the clients to the server
and what type of queries would be the most valuable to you.  We would also
appreciate any other input you would like to provide to help make this design
as crisp as possible.  Thank you very much.

ADSM Development:
  Bonnie Vining  dancer AT vnet.ibm DOT com
  Don Warren     dwarren AT vnet.ibm DOT com