Re: BRMS *SYSTEM Control Group question

[Jim Oberholtzer <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jack,

Not much other than the BRMS controls are a bit more well documented.  
You can accomplish quite a bit with the BRMS controls and I like them 
because they are well documented, albeit rarely used.  Clearly you can't 
check to see if TCP is up, or if a device is active or not, so the exit 
program comes in handy there.  The only real problem with the exits is 
there is no return code to signify if the step finished completely 
without error or not.  It is incumbent on the program to be very 
diligent to perform all the error handling needed.

If BRMS can do it I prefer BRMS.  That is not always the case so the 
exits have their very useful place.

Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects


On 6/20/2012 3:08 PM, Jack Kingsley wrote:
> What is the difference in using exit point programs 'vs' using the setups
> in BRMS on how to control the system, just more control via exit point
> programs.
>
> On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 4:00 PM,<rob@xxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
>
> > >  I was going to suggest sending to an impossible location, but maybe you
> > >  get a different error when it can't even reach your dns than just a bogus
> > >  location.
> > >
> > >
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> > >
> > >  From:   Gerald Kern<jp2558@xxxxxxxxx>
> > >  To:     Midrange<midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> > >  Date:   06/20/2012 03:52 PM
> > >  Subject:        Re: BRMS *SYSTEM Control Group question
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> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >    Thanks for offering code Jim, but for now I have a simple 10 minute delay
> > >  before trying to SNDTCPSPLF. If I hadn't deleted my job log I would have
> > >  monitored for the "Cannot resolve host name" but I don't recall what CPF
> > >  it
> > >  is.
> > >
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> > >  Thanks, Jerry
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