> On Oct 18, 2017, at 6:37 PM, Steve Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > > That's almost funny. Console output, and SYSLOG has been a complete > morass of feces for decades, and it continuously gets worse. A large > percentage of programmers seem to think every twitch and twiddle of > their precious program deserves to be announced via WTO (I call it > WTO diarrhea). > > No one goes in there unless looking for something specific. And it > seems fairly unlikely to me that someone would go looking for > expiration warnings. > > sas
Interesting, every morning when I come in (while the coffee is still hot), after I look briefly at the problem tickets from the night before I scan syslog for anything eye catching around the time of the ticket. I then look at logrec records (Hardware and Software) to see if any software records at all and then zero in on the time of the ticket. I then look at any dumps that may have been taken. Then its about 7AM and then I look at in a little more detail to software records (any) that are duplicate or unique. I then login in to IBM and do a little searching about the software recs. Then I make a judgement call as top whether we need the fixing PTF. I order them . I then go to the morning status meetings with listing in hand so I can do instant research without spending hours of my time and I may have a answer to any questions. I could not live without syslog and logrec . Ed ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
