On 3/9/2012 3:05 PM, Kirk Talman wrote:
We have an in-house monitoring system on zOS that detects significant
events (very broadly defined) - batch and online-, logs them, uses an
external table to lookup who to notify via a complex masking system, and
notifies them. Notification uses SMTP. That allows direct interface to
vendors whose devices support SMS via SMTP. E.g. major pager vendors and
cellphone vendors have such interfaces in US Canada and EU. It also
allows use of "maillists" in the email system.
Only downsides are vendor response time and firewalls.
The system is on all lpars/plexes (except the sandboxes) in all data
centers. The logs are consolidated and coordinated, as are the tables -
they exist locally on each lpar/plex but are in sync with the "mother
ship".
I created an interface so that any system (e.g. *nix, M$W) that can
"touch" zOS (NDM, FTP, MQ, etc) can use the notification system, including
the filtering part.
Cobol/CICS/MQ plus vendor tools (e.g. Fault Analyzer) to connect to SRM
and Endevor. As much as possible, the system is external table driven.
Only some of the filtering algorithms are "hard code".
The contact number is in the message so that in special cases (e.g. DR)
there is indication of who/where is the controlling site. Otherwise the
plex indicates country.
I sure wish IBM would get with it and promote these
kinds of capabilities as being available with z/OS.
People aren't aware of all things that are possible and
it always comes across as the mainframe is 'old',
'stodgy', 'not modern' and so on.
Ah well. Guess they aren't really serious about the
long term viability.
[OK, so it's Friday.]
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