NonStop NS-Series Operations Guide (H06.12+)

Working With a Daily Checklist
A good method for ensuring that certain areas of your operations environment are monitored
is to develop a checklist. Monitor these items on a system frequently. At least daily, monitor:
• OSM Service Connection GUI
• Event messages
• Alarms
• Problem incident reports
• The status of all system components
• The status of processes
• The status of all applications
• The performance of processors, disks, and communications lines (Monitoring performance
is not discussed in this guide.)
An example of a checklist you might use to standardize your routine daily monitoring tasks is:
Notes and questionsDate & timeOperator’s nameTask
Check phone messages
Check faxes
Check e-mail
Check shift log
Check EMS event messages
Check status of terminals
Check comm. lines
Check TMF status
Check Pathway status
Check disks
Check tape drives
Check processors
Check printers
Check spooler supervisor
and collector processes
Check ServerNet cluster
status
Tools for Checking the Status of System Hardware
Several tools are available to check the status of system components in an Integrity NonStop
NS-series server. The most frequently used tools are the OSM Service Connection and the
Subsystem Control Facility (SCF).
For information relating to system components in NonStop S-series servers, refer to the appropriate
NonStop S-Series documentation.
Table 3-1 lists the tools available to monitor system components.
50 Overview of Monitoring and Recovery