Re: BMC Patrol

[Mike Buglass <mike.buglass@xxxxxxxxxx>]

"Shadrach Scott"
<shadrachscott@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:003e01c34a79$51dc5bc0$46b5fea9@xxx: 

> We have Patrol where I work. It works really well on the Open VMS
> systems. It works fairly well on the Windows servers. But on
> OS/400 we have had a lot of issues and BMC has not been able to
> give us a lot of help. 
> 
> Good luck, if you actually find someone that can make it do
> anything useful I would love to hear your story.
> 
> Shadrach Scott

> From: "Evan Harris"
> <spanner@xxxxxxxxxx> To:
>> Hi all
>>
>> anyone out there using this to monitor their 400's that has done
>> much work on creating KM's, adding new classes or extracting data
>> via PSL ? 
>>
>> I have a client that has this on a few machines and I am just
>> trying to work out the best approach for a few monitoring
>> situations and trying not to re-invent the wheel if I don't have
>> to. I am working with BMC here in 
> NZ
>> but they are a little light on for access to 400 expertise so I
>> was hoping to touch base with someone who has some experience
>> with configuring the product who also understands the AS/400.
>>
>> Some examples of the kinds of things people have done with this
>> would be kinda cool too !
>>
>> Regards
>> Evan Harris
>>
>> _______________________________________________


Evan,

We have a couple of customers that are using the AS400 agent and we use 
it to monitor an AS400 (as well as an NT server and 2 Solaris servers) 
for a customer.  Make sure that you have the latest version (June 2002) 
- it has some enhancements that the original version did not have that 
make it easier to write your own KMs.

I did play around writing a KM to monitor output queues as an exercise 
which was quite effective. I have not put it onto a live system yet 
though. You might try visiting the developer forums at

http://devcon.bmc.com





Shadrach,

Basic setup is fairly straight forward usually.  What issues are you 
having?  



-- 
Mike Buglass