Availability Guide for Problem Management

Automating Operations and Recovery Procedures

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Starting Batch Jobs

Use the NetBatch product to automatically schedule jobs, such as those that summarize

or post results at the end of the day. NetBatch allows you to run jobs or job steps

anywhere in an Expand network, which means you can automate and consolidate

reporting for widely distributed applications. You can also control schedulers on

different nodes of the Expand network for a central site, reducing operations demands at

remote locations.

Avoiding Problems of Automated Recovery

Automation often works in the background. Sometimes the lack of visibility of the

automated recovery process poses potential problems. For example, you might try to

bring down and restart a terminal or a communication line without success, only to find

out later that the automated operator has worked well and recovered from the “failure”

efficiently. To address this lack of visibility, it might be necessary to make your

automated recovery rules more visible.

Making Recovery Rules More Visible

To make your automated recovery rules more visible, you can specify that each time a

rule is executed, the automated operator will generate an event to inform operators of the

outcome of the recovery procedure. Implementing these recovery events can help you to

understand the effects of automation in your system environment and can also contribute

to the collection of statistics on the efficiency of your automated operations.

Using Tandem Tools for Automation

Tandem provides the following tools to help you automate your operations and recovery

tasks:

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CA-Unicenter for Tandem provides an Event Management function, which you can

configure to respond to specific events automatically, and a Workload Management

function, which you can configure to automatically schedule jobs.

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NetBatch helps you automatically schedule routine tasks, such as those that

summarize or post results at the end of the day.

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Tandem Failure Data System (TFDS) isolates software problems and provides

automatic processor failure data collection, diagnosis, and recovery services.

Automating Job Scheduling and Event Response With CA-Unicenter

The CA-Unicenter for Tandem Workload Management function provides automated

submission and tracking of batch processes. It facilitates the definition and enforcement

of complex interrelationships between work units, including predecessor controls,

manual tasks, and cause-and-effect scheduling policies.

The CA-Unicenter Event Management facilities allow you to establish lists of actions

that are automatically performed in response to specific events.