Yes... this is an excellent idea; it's so good, that IBM made it even easier on AIX -- search for "dsmulog" in the admin. guide... it creates the flat-file in real-time, can be setup to automatically roll-over to a new file every night at midnight, so I usually advise 30-day retention on act. log, and setup a mgmt class for the rolled-over files so we can go back a year (or more, if desired). Kinda like using generation data groups for the old syslog files.
With this program, a monitoring program can "watch" the tail of the flat-file in real-time, sending/recording alerts for significant issues that arise. Don France Technical Architect -- Tivoli Certified Consultant Tivoli Storage Manager, WinNT/2K, AIX/Unix, OS/390 San Jose, Ca (408) 257-3037 mailto:don_france@;ayett.net (change aye to a for replies) Professional Association of Contract Employees (P.A.C.E. -- www.pacepros.com) -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@;VM.MARIST.EDU]On Behalf Of Shannon Bach Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 9:38 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Retaining Activity Logs (was Re: Tape History....) When you pull out data from your Activity Log do you pull everything in the log? Or just certain information. What a good idea, I had never thought of doing this before! I am setting up a macro to start tonight. Thanks for the tip! Shannon Bach Madison Gas & Electric Co. Operations Analyst - Data Center Services Office 608-252-7260 Fax 608-252-7098 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
