First off.. apologies for prolonging this topic further.
Hello Scott,
Guess you're referring to "The whole process takes about 20 minutes, and I’m
trying to cut down functions wherever possible (such as – I don’t have to SNMP
for printer data when I know I can’t ping it)."
Though this topic has been going on for a while, I'm not 100% sure that the
"purpose" mail has came across.
They are IP’s and the printing software is VPS. I’m considering moving the
“ping” and “snmp get” to OMVS because I want to make the process concurrent, as
opposed to doing the functions (tests) sequentially, one printer after another.
We’re managing a few thousand printers via VPS, DRS, and VPSX and as the
headings would explain, they belong to different places. Meaning, different
naming conventions, different VLAN’s, different VPS groups, different VPS
configurations.
We used to maintain Spreadsheets for each location separately, but often, it
would go out of date (not updated with modifications when they’re done).
So I’m obtaining my VPS printer startup list (reading NetView global
variables)and running health check (SNMP ping, getting status/MAC) on each
item, and then populating the below CSV.
The other columns come from NetView global variables which are pretty much
constant, except when there’s a new warehouse or something. (The entire REXX
runs under NetView to enable easy use of SNMP bits).
The whole process takes about 20 minutes, and I’m trying to cut down functions
wherever possible (such as – I don’t have to SNMP for printer data when I know
I can’t ping it).
Since there’s different VLAN’s for each location, I’m trying to get the data
sorted so that when there’s a need for a new printer in any of the locations, I
can just go to the bottom of that VLAN and pick an IP to assign to the printer.
IP
MAC
Make-Model
SEPINFO
Type
Ping
Status
Printer
GRPNAME
Warehouse #
Warehouse Name
Warehouse Terminal
Warehouse Code
Warehouse CICS
10.19.137.200
Unknown
Unknown
Not Defined
Report
NOT Ok
Unknown
R680
WHLIFFEY
Partial data - SATO_CL412e
SATO
Barcode Ok Online PSHBDC0E
WHKINGS
The whole exercise is to make managing these printers easy and to have a fair
indication of the status of the printers, available outisde the mainframe.”
- Vignesh
Mainframe Admin
-----Original Message-----
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
Of Scott Ford
Sent: 18 April 2014 16:32
To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Forget: Sorting CSV data that begins with an IP address
Vig ,
I have briefly looked at this thread , it sounds like your ‘almost pinging’
printers …
Can you provide a bit more information ? Like these are IP ? Application owned
? Why manage from OMVS ( I have nothing against it ), curious why ?
Regards,
Scott
From: Martin Packer
Sent: Friday, April 18, 2014 5:37 AM
To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List
No developer would be arrogant enough :-) to consider themselves faultless. And
knowing Sri Hari as I do I doubt he'd want you to keep the solution to
yourself. And we all learn by building on each others'
solutions and ideas.
Which is why *I* for one have been socialising my "answers" for almost 30
years. Others likewise and some even longer.
However what we have here is a discussion that has little structure now.
:-(
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From: "Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh"
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Date: 18/04/2014 00:40
Subject: Re: Forget: Sorting CSV data that begins with an IP
address
Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Ok ..
Just a thought though .. when I get a solution from a DFSORT developer himself,
I can blindly believe that it will work; as long as I had made my requirements
clear, which I had.
But yes, I do see your point.
- Vignesh
Mainframe Admin
-----Original Message-----
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
Of Gibney, Dave
Sent: 17 April 2014 22:16
To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Forget: Sorting CSV data that begins with an IP address
Don't reply off list and deprive others from knowing the solution(s).
Also, keeps the archives more useful.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]]
> On Behalf Of Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
> Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2014 12:35 PM
> To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: Forget: Sorting CSV data that begins with an IP address
>
> Sorry Kolusu, thought I replied to your email off the list. Your
> solution works, thank you.
>
> And from cursory looks, and trial runs, it looks like other suggested
> solutions work too.
>
> So my or original problem has been solved, thanks to you guys.
>
> Now I'm just mulling about cutting the execution time.
>
> - Vignesh
> Mainframe admin
>
> On Apr 17, 2014 8:32:12 PM, Sri h Kolusu
> <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
> Sankaranarayanan Vignesh
>
> You keep asking questions but never let us know the outcome of the
> proposed solutions. You started the topic for DFSORT about Sorting
> the csv file and a couple of solutions were provided to you. If the
> proposed solution did not work then may be should have shown us a
> sample and then may be we could have fixed that issue. Did you try out
> the solution posted by me earlier? If so what is the outcome of that?
Did you get the desired results?
>
> Thanks,
> Kolusu
> DFSORT Development
>
> IBM Mainframe Discussion List
> <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote on
> 04/17/2014 12:26:17 PM:
>
> > From: "Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh"
> <Vignesh.V.Sankaranarayanan@MARKS-
> > AND-SPENCER.COM>
> > To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>,
> > Date: 04/17/2014 12:26 PM
> > Subject: Re: Forget: Sorting CSV data that begins with an IP address
> > Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List
> > <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
> >
> > Ok.. Is it possible to fire off other REXXes repetitively (let's say
> > 2 or 3, each doing one function) that will not RETURN to the main,
> > but write their output to a dataset once done?
> >
> > - Vignesh
> > Mainframe admin
> >
> > On Apr 17, 2014 8:16:45 PM, "Farley, Peter x23353"
> > <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> >
> > TSO Rexx does not support multiple tasks executing simultaneously.
> > The "ATTACH*" functions do attach a new task, but your attaching
> > Rexx waits synchronously for the attached task to complete.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]
> ]
> > On Behalf Of Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
> > Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2014 2:58 PM
> > To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
> > Subject: Re: Forget: Sorting CSV data that begins with an IP address
> >
> > Another question.
> >
> > I'm looping some 5000 times in REXX and doing functions (NetView
> > ping, SNMP walk, etc) sequentially. They don't necessarily need to
> > be sequential. I'm just going through a list of printers and I want
> > to test them.
> >
> > So.. Is it possible that I make the first run a data run - reading
> > parameters from files for each printer (reading PDS member) - and
> > the second run as a thread creator of sorts. Each thread going off
> > to test one printer.
> >
> > The first run should be almost instantaneous. My thinking is.. Is it
> > possible to parallelly do the pinging and SNMP connection bits. It
> > would cut 20 minutes runtime to just a couple.
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