Monitoring messags

[just bob]

OK, I'm tired of IBM knowing I've got a hard drive failure before we do!

I want my box, V5R4, to send me an email when we get specific messages.

Since we use a product to email specific spool files I was hoping there was
a way to generate a spool file when a specific message comes up.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

[CRPence]

Investigate QSYSMSG for /critical messages/ and the CHGMSGD ALROPT()
for making messages /alert capable/. The ADDALRACNE [Add Alert Action
Entry] enables "Send to data queue" and "Generate SNMP trap", at least
the former should enable awaiting notification; I have used the former,
but am not familiar with the latter as a method of notification.

Regards, Chuck
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[Karl Hanson]

First, "monitoring messages" may mean different things on System i. For
example see the MONMSG CL command.

One thought - check into using the QSYSMSG message queue. A monitor
(batch) job could receive messages from the queue (eg using RCVMSG CL
command), or could process them with a break handling program.
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r4/index.jsp?topic=/rbam6/qsysm.htm

In the link labeled "Messages sent to QSYSMSG message queue", there
appear to be messages involving disk unit problems. When a message of
interest is detected, the program could (for example) create a spool
file containing the message in it (eg using a print file). Or for a
simpler (fixed content) spool file, a command like CPYF ..
TOFILE(*PRINT) could be used.

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r4/index.jsp?topic=/rbam6/bhprg.htm

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Karl Hanson

[Stefano P.]

> One thought - check into using the QSYSMSG message queue. A monitor
> (batch) job could receive messages from the queue (eg using RCVMSG CL
> command), or could process them with a break handling program.
> http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r4/index.jsp?topic=/rbam6/qsysm.htm

We use a "never ending program" (in command language) that is waiting
for messages on qsysmsg, and when a message is received than it's past
to a list of programs:
the first of them send us a mail (the text from the message is formatted
using rpg) using "sendmail" (from Uzaemon),
the second program searches in a file ("chain" :-) for a specific
program related to message id.

HTH
Stefano P.

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