From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU]On Behalf Of
Mr. Lindsay Morris
> Some of our customers point out that there are about 3,000 TSM
> messages that
> you have to decide to ignore, or write a TEC rule for.  Ouch!
>
> You can try to get around that by just using the Severe/Error/Warning
> indicators (the letter after "ANRnnn") - but if you look, you'll
> see that a
> lot of things marked "Warning" are really pretty serious - like:
>         ANR4581W Database backup/restore terminated - internal
> server error
> detected.
>         ANR1023W Migration process process ID terminated for
> storage pool storage
> pool name - excessive write errors encountered
>
> In fact, most of the daily-job-failed messages are "Warnings".
>
> In developing Servergraph, we took a very long hard look at all
> the messages
> and boiled them down to about 100 that really matter. So our TEC-happy
> customers use our built-in alerting to feed TEC - makes it easier
> to set up.
>
> And our NON-TEC-happy customers use our built-in alerting, which does (as
> near as I can tell) everything TEC does.

Mr. Morris, it would be nice if you'd put something in the header for your
response like "Advertisement". ;o)

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Mark Stapleton (stapleton AT berbee DOT com)
Certified TSM consultant
Certified AIX system engineer
MCSE