Re: EMC Data Domain scheduled auto support email

Rob, I would go the other way. Doesn't the EMC have a notification system
for alerts? I would monitor those instead of trying to read an autosupport
file everyday. Or you could have a program that compares today's
autosupport to yesterday and quickly points to the changed lines.
I don't know if the autosupport goes into temporal vs permanent errors for
the drives and stuff like that (that, in any case, should be handled by the
alert system) but it might be usefull.

Best Regards,

Roberto

On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 3:32 PM, Rob Berendt <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

That little filter program has potential, IF I yet knew what I need to
see.


Rob Berendt
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From: "Steinmetz, Paul" <PSteinmetz@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "'midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx'" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 09/14/2016 02:17 PM
Subject: RE: EMC Data Domain scheduled auto support email
Sent by: "MIDRANGE-L" <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx>



Rob,

Couple of ideas.

1) Email only a link to the PDF if size is an issue.

2) Write a little filter program pulling the messages you need to see.

Paul

-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Rob
Berendt
Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2016 7:37 AM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: EMC Data Domain scheduled auto support email

Ok, my boss thought it would be a good idea that I get daily emails from
both of our Data Domain VTLs on their status.
My problem is each (we have two) email is 1.5MB and that is without any
attachments. I cannot read this entire thing and keep awake. It's
doesn't quite read like a Tom Clancy novel. I tried to print the email to
a pdf file using pdf creator but cancelled it after 15 minutes. Just
wanted a page count.

What areas should I be concentrating on?

This one caught my eye, and it's towards the beginning:
<snip>
Proactive Disk Check
--------------------
No drives have exceeded reliability thresholds for proactive maintenance.
</snip>
Ok, I'll watch that one.

Tried to talk to someone about this column:
<snip>
Cleanable GiB*
--------------
2404.5
--------------
* Estimated based on last cleaning of 2016/09/01 13:30:25.
</snip>
Figuring hey, if it knows it can clean up 2.4TB that kind of sounds
significant. I was told not to worry, it would be handled automatically
at month end.

After that, it's, well, hard to determine what I should watch out for.
Any suggestions?


Rob Berendt
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