Re: Auto restarting iNav monitors

[Jim Oberholtzer <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Very cool find Jim, thanks!

Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects


On 7/30/2013 4:58 PM, Jim Essinger wrote:
> I found something new in the last couple of weeks that I thought I would
> share.  I have seen Rob write about the monitors available in iNav, and
> have been using them.  What I missed most was an auto restart option if the
> system they are monitoring gets shut down an restarted.  I have a server
> that goes to restricted mode every night for a save, and I want the monitor
> to start again when the system comes back up.
>
> I found out that if you include the&RESTART keyword in the name of the
> monitor, and change a setting on the IBM i, the monitor will start back up
> when Management Central is restarted.  The one caveat is that Management
> Central has to end normally for this to work. I added the ENDTCPSVR *MGTC
> command to my backup program, and a delay job, and things now come back
> after being shut down.
>
> The change to make on server side of the is to set a flag in Management
> central.  Use the following command "call qypsconfig parm('QYPS_AUTORETRY'
> '1')" to turn on the auto retry function.
>
> This seems to work on my one remaining V5R4 machine (upgrading soon!), as
> well as my 7.1 partitions.  My IBM i Access version is Version 7 Release 1
> Mod 0  Service level SI47412.
>
> Just an FYI -
>
>   Jim
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