NET/MASTER RMS Management and Operations Guide

Functional Description
Introduction to RMS
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Manage the subjects that have triggered rules. For example, you may want to
delete certain recovery actions on the subject if you determine that recovery is not
possible.
Freeze or thaw subjects. You may want to freeze a subject when you plan to
perform certain maintenance functions on it. Freezing a subject inactivates the
rules for messages containing that subject. Similar messages containing other
subjects, however, can still trigger the rules.
Dynamically activate or inactivate message action rules that are being used by a
message handler. Inactivating a rule causes the message handler to not use that
rule for all messages. You may want to inactivate some rules when you plan to
perform certain system maintenance functions.
Modify the ruleset and the rules being used by a message handler and have the
changes immediately available to the handler. For example, you can enable or
disable certain types of rule actions.
Replace the ruleset that a message handler is using. Being able to replace a ruleset
allows you to tailor the handler to suit the different stages of your system
operation. For example, you can use one ruleset during system startup and then
change to a different ruleset to monitor the normal system operation.
Purge a message handler.
You can also start or purge a message handler directly from your OCS window or
from an NCL procedure using NonStop NET/MASTER MS commands.
RMS Timer Control
Using the RMS panel interface, you can control the operation of and display
information on the RMS timers as follows:
Create or modify a time-based rule and immediately load it as an RMS timer.
List the RMS timers on your system, together with the user ID of the user that has
control of a timer and the name of the associated time-based rule.
Purge an RMS timer.
Capturing Message Handler
Statistics
You can specify the statistics you want to capture for a ruleset when the ruleset is used
with a message handler. RMS starts to capture statistics as soon as you start a message
handler with the ruleset. At any time during the life of the message handler, you can
display and print the captured statistics. The statistics can be especially useful when
there is a change in the message flow to the message handler because of changes to
your system. Examples of changes include changes to system software or hardware,
and additions of new links with other systems in your network.
RMS can capture the following statistics on the activities of a ruleset and its rules:
Number of messages suppressed, modified, or replaced
Number of system commands issued: that is, commands issued using the
NonStop NET/MASTER MS commands PROGRUN and OPSYS