We use OPS/MVS to raise all kinds of alerting - batch job failures, STCs falling over, error messages from syslog, etc etc etc, you name it. OPS/MVS uses OPSCAWTO and sends SNMP traps over to a server running BMC software to raise the incidents. We have a generic REXX which numerous rules pass data over to. E.g. a rule passes over job/task name, abend code, description to the generic REXX. That then fires off the SNMP trap to the relevant server, passing the data over. Advantage of this is you setup your OPSCAWTO in 1 place, so if you need to change the hostname/ip address of the server its done very easily, rather than updating 100's of rules. We also raise a highlighted message on the consoles should the CAWTO fail: cmd = OPSCAWTO(server_id,serv_data) if cmd > 0 then do address wto etc etc
We also log them into a dataset, so that should the traps fail to send for some reason we can refer to the dataset. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
