All, The Tweeting is a good idea, I seem to remember the server people in most places I have worked had pager systems and scene what Liz suggested in several places using Netview. So this very doable.
Sent from my iPad Scott Ford Senior Systems Engineer www.identityforge.com On Mar 9, 2012, at 5:12 PM, Steve Comstock <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.] > > -- > > Kind regards, > > -Steve Comstock > The Trainer's Friend, Inc. > > 303-355-2752 > http://www.trainersfriend.com > > * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment! > + Training your people is an excellent investment > > * Try our tool for calculating your Return On Investment > for training dollars at > http://www.trainersfriend.com/ROI/roi.html > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
