Availability Guide for Problem Management

Automating Operations and Recovery Procedures

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Scheduling Routine Tasks With NetBatch

NetBatch allows you to automate job scheduling, startup, and management tasks on your

system. It increases throughput by enabling job distribution among the systems’

processors, and it frees operations staff for other work by reducing the need for user

intervention.

A NetBatch job is a process or a sequence of processes that performs specialized tasks.

For example, a job could start an online Pathway application, summarize and post end-

of-period results, or back up data files. NetBatch jobs can run on any node in a network.

Also, you can control NetBatch schedulers on different nodes from a central site,

reducing operations demands at remote locations.

The NetBatch scheduler routes jobs to user-specified processors and provides

mechanisms for controlling the routing process. This allows you to distribute the job

workload according to processor availability and OLTP demands. The scheduler has an

EMS interface, which it uses to send information about job-related and scheduler-related

events to EMS collectors. Information retrieved from these collectors helps you monitor

and manage jobs and schedulers in a system or network environment.

Performing Automatic Memory Dumps With TFDS

TFDS automatically dumps, analyzes, and catalogs the information required to resolve

software problems. It allows you to dump memory contents automatically after

processor failures or when requested by software procedures.

TFDS tracks the number of occurrences of both recurrent and known problems. It also

allows you to update configuration parameters, request processor dumps, and start or

cancel backups.

Automation Examples

This subsection provides examples of automation procedures that you can implement in

your system environment. These examples are not intended to illustrate all possible uses

for these procedures—rather they are intended to give you ideas for automating and

customizing operations and recovery tasks.

TACL Recovery Macros

Many routine operations tasks can be automated through the use of command files and

TACL macros or routines. The following examples illustrate how to warm start a spooler

subsystem after it has been drained. The first example illustrates the warm start

procedure as it is done manually; the second example illustrates how to automate the

procedure using a TACL macro. The Spooler Reference Manual provides a description

of the SPOOL program.