> Is anyone using HP OpenView to monitor TSM? Andy
Over the years we've developed some quite complex OpenView policies for TSM client and server event management. We run both Operations Manager and TSM Server on Windows and the original idea was to use SNMP to get alerts into OMW. However we found the easiest way was to customise the event rules in TSM (DEFINE EVENTRULES) so that every activity log message we were interested in was propagated to the Windows Application Event Logs. The OpenView agent on each TSM server has an event log policy which raises (or ignores) messages according to the rules we define in the policy while parsing the text of the message to get client names, setting severities, etc. Each rule matches one or more activity log messages (mainly errors and warnings, but also some info messages which I don't expect in normal operation) and then defines the operator action in the message instructions. The above gives us near real time alerting based on server activity log messages. For everything else - clients at risk, long running schedules, database space, etc. - we use the [now unsupported] TSM Operational Reporting from v5.5 installed as a stand-alone application on a separate virtual server with an OpenView agent on. As well as following the documented hacks to get OR to work with our 6.3 server instances, we've added a bunch of custom SQL which along with the out-of-the-box reporting creates daily text files, one per monitored server instance. These lend themselves quite well to being parsed by an OpenView log file policy. Until Operations Centre gives me something I can work with to achieve the same thing, we've no immediate plans to change things and by and large it works well., Regards Neil Schofield Infrastructure Architect, Hardware Engineering Yorkshire Water ---------------------------------------- Spotted a leak? If you spot a leak please report it immediately. Call us on 0800 57 3553 or go to http://www.yorkshirewater.com/leaks Get a free water saving pack Don't forget to request your free water and energy saving pack, it could save you money on your utility bills and help you conserve water. http://www.yorkshirewater.com/savewater The information in this e-mail, and any files transmitted with it, is confidential and may also be legally privileged. The contents are intended solely for the addressee only and are subject to the legal notice available at http://www.keldagroup.com/email.htm. This email does not constitute a binding offer, acceptance, amendment, waiver or other agreement, or create any obligation whatsoever, unless such intention is clearly stated in the body of the email. If you are not the intended recipient, please return the message by replying to it and then delete the message from your computer. Any disclosure, copying, distribution or action taken in reliance on its contents is prohibited and may be unlawful. Yorkshire Water Services Limited Registered Office Western House, Halifax Road, Bradford, BD6 2SZ Registered in England and Wales No 2366682
