TS/MP 2.5 System Management Manual

5 Maintaining a PATHMON Environment
System Maintenance Tasks
This section describes operations you need to perform on a regular basis to maintain a PATHMON
environment. Tasks you must perform regularly include:
• Monitor status and performance by displaying information about your PATHMON environment
and objects
• Reconfigure, when necessary, to accommodate new application requirements, new users, and
so on
• Manage exception conditions when and if they occur
At times, you might also need to perform other operations, such as:
• Migrate your environment to a different system
• Send messages, ranging from informative text to urgent requests, to users
• Change the owner and security of your system
Displaying Information About a PATHMON Environment
The PATHMON process maintains information about object configurations, object status, and
operation statistics.
NOTE: PDMCOM or PATHCOM can be used for displaying information about a TS/MP 2.5
PATHMON Environment. However, it is recommended to use PDMCOM (instead of PATHCOM)
because it can communicate with multiple PATHMONs simultaneously. For more information, see
the TS/MP 2.5 Release Supplement.
You can display this information using these commands:
• INFO command
• STATUS command
• STATS command
You use the STATUS command to determine the state of a PATHMON environment and objects:
running, stopped, suspended, and so on. You use the INFO command to display the current
configuration of a PATHMON environment and PATHMON-controlled objects. You use the STATS
command to check statistics for SERVER resources.
NOTE: Information about TCPs that appears in this section applies to your environment only if
you are using the Pathway/iTS product.
For all of these commands, you can direct the display output to a text file by including the OUT
option in your command. For example, this command directs output to the text file named JUNE95:
= INFO /OUT JUNE95/ PATHWAY
With the INFO command, you can use the OBEYFORM option to capture a configuration for use
in future start operations. (See “Capturing a Configuration” (page 97).)
This section provides several examples of the INFO, STATUS, and STATS commands, showing
various syntax options for these commands and the resulting display information.
This scenario illustrates how to use the information provided by the STATUS commands to detect
problems within your environment and determine how to rectify these problems.
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