Re: A stupid idea? Using twitter like service for z/SO, et al., event notification.

2012-03-12 Thread Dana Mitchell
On Fri, 9 Mar 2012 11:19:30 -0600, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com wrote: Anyway, I was thinking that a twitter like service to which they could connect their home PC or smartphone would make it easier for them to track the activity on the system without the need to bring up a VPN

Re: A stupid idea? Using twitter like service for z/SO, et al., event notification.

2012-03-10 Thread Shane Ginnane
On Fri, 9 Mar 2012 10:29:51 -0600, McKown, John wrote: I'll admit that my mind is not running quite right today. And how does that make today any different . ;-) I remember a time (not so long ago) when we were assured technology would free us from the shackles of our daytime desk. Yeah,

Re: A stupid idea? Using twitter like service for z/SO, et al., event notification.

2012-03-10 Thread Timothy Sipples
Not at all a stupid idea, John. There are many shops that already do that sort of thing and many ways to do it. As an aside, there are some organizations that handle third shift support from some part of the world where/when it's first shift. That can be done within the company itself (typically

Re: A stupid idea? Using twitter like service for z/SO, et al., event notification.

2012-03-10 Thread Chuck Arney
Sent: Friday, March 09, 2012 10:30 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: A stupid idea? Using twitter like service for z/SO, et al., event notification. I'll admit that my mind is not running quite right today. But something that is bouncing around is notification of events happening on servers

A stupid idea? Using twitter like service for z/SO, et al., event notification.

2012-03-09 Thread McKown, John
I'll admit that my mind is not running quite right today. But something that is bouncing around is notification of events happening on servers, especially z/OS. Would it be helpful, or stupid, to set up a twitter type, secured, server. Then have the appropriate people from work, who have

Re: A stupid idea? Using twitter like service for z/SO, et al., event notification.

2012-03-09 Thread Lizette Koehler
I'll admit that my mind is not running quite right today. But something that is bouncing around is notification of events happening on servers, especially z/OS. Would it be helpful, or stupid, to set up a twitter type, secured, server. Then have the appropriate people from work, who have

Re: A stupid idea? Using twitter like service for z/SO, et al., event notification.

2012-03-09 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Lizette Koehler Sent: Friday, March 09, 2012 10:39 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: A stupid idea? Using twitter like service for z/SO, et al., event notification. I'll admit that my

Re: A stupid idea? Using twitter like service for z/SO, et al., event notification.

2012-03-09 Thread David Andrews
On Fri, 2012-03-09 at 11:29 -0500, McKown, John wrote: notification of events happening on servers, especially z/OS We're small like you, lights-out after 9:00pm, and the operations automation we have is all homebrew. I have a console monitor application, written in REXX, that watches for

Re: A stupid idea? Using twitter like service for z/SO, et al., event notification.

2012-03-09 Thread McKown, John
:02 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: A stupid idea? Using twitter like service for z/SO, et al., event notification. On Fri, 2012-03-09 at 11:29 -0500, McKown, John wrote: notification of events happening on servers, especially z/OS We're small like you, lights-out after 9:00pm

Re: A stupid idea? Using twitter like service for z/SO, et al., event notification.

2012-03-09 Thread Kirk Talman
We have an in-house monitoring system on zOS that detects significant events (very broadly defined) - batch and online-, logs them, uses an external table to lookup who to notify via a complex masking system, and notifies them. Notification uses SMTP. That allows direct interface to vendors

Re: A stupid idea? Using twitter like service for z/SO, et al., event notification.

2012-03-09 Thread Steve Comstock
On 3/9/2012 3:05 PM, Kirk Talman wrote: We have an in-house monitoring system on zOS that detects significant events (very broadly defined) - batch and online-, logs them, uses an external table to lookup who to notify via a complex masking system, and notifies them. Notification uses SMTP.

Re: A stupid idea? Using twitter like service for z/SO, et al., event notification.

2012-03-09 Thread Scott Ford
All, The Tweeting is a good idea, I seem to remember the server people in most places I have worked had pager systems and scene what Liz suggested in several places using Netview. So this very doable. Sent from my iPad Scott Ford Senior Systems Engineer www.identityforge.com On Mar 9,

Re: A stupid idea? Using twitter like service for z/SO, et al., event notification.

2012-03-09 Thread Brian Westerman
Sorry if this sounds like a marketing entry, but it probably will. A little over two years ago I wrote a little product (called SyzTXT/z) that works with our other products but especially with the console message product (SyzMPF/z) so that if something happens that the site feels is important