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> Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 2:51 AM
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> Subject: Sending z/OS Messages to external syslog server
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> Hi,
>
> Does anyone know of a way to send messages from the z/OS log
> to an external syslog server.
>
> I have CA-OPS/MVS.
>
> Gadi
Perhaps. I use CA-OPS/MVS to send an SNMP trap to CA-Unicenter for some z/OS
messages. It is basically a two step process. The first is to right a message
rule to trap the z/OS message. This is the easy part <grin>. The second part is
to write a REXX program which uses REXX sockets to send the syslog message to
your syslog server. This REXX program is invoked from the message rule via the
OX command, something like:
"OX PROGRAM('rexx.program.library(logpgm)') ARG('"MSG.TEXT"')"
The above invokes "logpgm" in 'rexx.program.library" and passes it the message
text. The "logpgm" uses REXX sockets to send the message to the appropriate
UNIX syslog server. Doing this is the difficult part. Especially since I've
never done it. Now, if you have the C compiler (we don't), you could write a C
program which does this using the openlog(), syslog(), and closelog()
functions. However, this sends the message to the local z/OS system's syslog
daemon. So it needs to be running and configured to relay the message on to the
desired syslog server.
Wish I had some code to share, but I don't.
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