HP NonStop NS Automating Routine System Monitoring, Example 3-2. System Monitoring Command File

Overview of Monitoring and Recovery Automating Routine System Monitoring

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 3-2 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 3-2 into an EDIT file.

Example 3-2. 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
COMMENT		THIS CHECKS ALL SACS:
SCF STATUS		SAC $*
COMMENT		THIS CHECKS ALL ADAPTERS
SCF STATUS		ADAPTER $*
COMMENT		THIS CHECKS ALL LIFS
SCF STATUS		LIF $*
COMMENT		THIS CHECKS ALL PIFS
SCF STATUS		PIF $*

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 3-3. This output shows that all elements of the system being monitored are up and running normally.

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