Re: Monitoring disk protection status through e-mail

This may be brute force and there's probably a more elegant solution
(API?) but it's been working for a long, long time.  Just took a few
minutes to throw together.

Through the advanced job scheduler, I run a CL program hourly that does
the following:
WRKDSKSTS to a spoolfile
Cpysplf to a PF in qtemp
SQL select records that contain 'DPY' and NOT contain 'ACTIVE'  (to an
outfile in qtemp)
Retrieve # of records from the outfile
    If record count = 0, all is well
    If record count > 0 email to our helpdesk distribution list

Just to be sure it's working, I schedule it to run once a day with a
parm that tells it to send the message regardless of the status.  So, if
all is well, I just get a friendly reminder at noon every day that my
disks are happy campers.

l.beeler@xxxxxxxxxxx 01/23/2007 1:19:43 PM >>>

Hi,

We have a customer that is running an older 9406-170, currently at V5R3.
He doesn't have hardware maintenance, and they're not running any 5250
applications.

They are using parity protection with a 2740.

Now the problem is, how are notifications handled? Since noone ever logs
onto the machine directly (they're just using the ERP software running
on it), and since service agent is not used because they don't have
hardware maintenance, how do i notice that a disk has failed?

In the Windows/Linux world, there are standalone RAID monitoring
applications (like IBM's ServeRAID suite), and of course bigger
monitoring solutions like Nagios or MOM.

I've searched IBMs infocenter high and low, but it seems that I'm using
the wrong keywords, since I wasn't able to find any way to get notified
in case of a non-fatal hardware failure (like losing a fan or hard
disk).

Thanks for your time,

Lukas Beeler