NonStop S-Series Operations Guide (G06.29+)

Overview of Monitoring and Recovery

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Automating Routine System Monitoring

You can automate many of the monitoring procedures. Automation saves you time and

helps you to perform many routine tasks more efficiently.

Your operations environment might be using TACL macros, TACL routines, or

command files to perform routine system monitoring and other tasks. These items

allow you to run many procedures so that you can quickly determine system status,

produce reports, or perform other common tasks. The TACL Reference Manual

contains an example that you can adapt to automate system monitoring.

Example 3-1 contains an example of a command file you can use or adapt to check

many of the system elements:

1. To create a command file named SYSCHK that will automate system monitoring,

type the text shown in Example 3-1 into an EDIT file.

2. After you create this file, at a TACL prompt, type this command to execute the file

and automatically monitor many elements of your system:

> OBEY SYSCHK

For an example of the output that is sent to your home terminal when you execute a

command file such as SYSCHK, refer to Example 3-2. This output shows that all

elements of the system being monitored are up and running normally.

Example 3-1. System Monitoring Command File

COMMENT THIS IS THE FILE SYSCHK

COMMENT THIS CHECKS ALL DISKS:

SCF STATUS DISK $*

COMMENT THIS CHECKS ALL TAPE DRIVES:

SCF STATUS TAPE $*

COMMENT THIS CHECKS THE SPOOLER PRINT DEVICES:

SPOOLCOM DEV

COMMENT THIS CHECKS THE LINE HANDLERS:

SCF STATUS LINE $*

COMMENT THIS CHECKS THE STATUS OF TMF:

TMFCOM;STATUS TMF

COMMENT THIS CHECKS THE STATUS OF PATHWAY:

PATHCOM $ZVPT;STATUS PATHWAY;STATUS PATHMON