We put this feature (user notification of failed backups) into our Servergraph/TSM product a while ago. Some gotchas you might want to think about, if you're developing it yourself:
--for laptops, you don't want to send this notification immediately. Maybe the user is out of town for a few days. So each node needs a delay-time: for critical servers, delay zero days; desktops, 2 days; laptops, 7 days, or something like that. --the notification ought to give the user a way to fix the easy problems (e.g., is the scheduler running? etc.) --if the situation continues for too long, an escalation message ought to be sent to you, the TSM administrator. --you want to ignore antique filespaces, like the one containing an old retired PC that the user keeps around "just in case I need a file from it". Just food for thought. Maybe you don't need these features. ---------------------------- Mr. Lindsay Morris CEO Applied System Design www.servergraph.com 859-253-8000 ofc 425-988-8478 fax > -----Original Message----- > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of > Jane Bamberger > Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 3:09 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Anyone know how to have TSM script read an input file? > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "MC Matt Cooper (2838)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 11:18 AM > Subject: Anyone know how to have TSM script read an input file? > > > > Hello all, > > In the life of ever changing requirements... I must > include in an > > e-mail sent to a PC user that they missed a backup, exactly how long it > has > > been since they were backed up. > > I am scanning the log to see what schedules were > MISSED. But > > now for each node that was missed I need to know the last date of a > backup, > > not a 'accessed by TSM' (which is in the NODE DB) . I see that the > SUMMARY > > DB has ALL the backups start and end dates. But what would be > the logical > > way to approach this? I would think list off the nodes that > failed and do > > some sort of select of the SUMMARY DB to find the last > successful backup. > > 1) I am not sure how to ask for JUST the last successful backup > of 1 node. > > 2) I am truly at a loss to figure out how to have this script read in a > list > > of nodes to find out there last successful backups > > > > Has anyone done anything like this? An example could take me a > long way. > > I am using TSM 4.1.5 on z/OS 1.1. If I can get all the info > into records > I > > am using SAS to format the e-mail messages. My TSM system has > about 230 > > nodes in an 80% full 25GB data base. Hopefully I can do this in an > > efficient manner... > > Thanks in advance for all your help! > > Matt > > >
