Automating Routine System Monitoring; Example 3-2. System Monitoring Command File - HP NonStop NS-series Operation Manual

Overview of Monitoring and Recovery

Automating Routine System Monitoring

You can automate many of the monitoring procedures. Automation saves you time and
helps you to perform many routine tasks more efficiently.
Your operations environment might be using TACL macros, TACL routines, or
command files to perform routine system monitoring and other tasks. These items
allow you to run many procedures so that you can quickly determine system status,
produce reports, or perform other common tasks. The TACL Reference Manual
contains an example that you can adapt to automate system monitoring.
Example 3-2 contains an example of a command file you can use or adapt to check
many of the system elements:
1. To create a command file named SYSCHK that will automate system monitoring,
type the text shown in

Example 3-2. System Monitoring Command File

COMMENT THIS IS THE FILE SYSCHK
COMMENT THIS CHECKS ALL DISKS:
SCF STATUS DISK $*
COMMENT THIS CHECKS ALL TAPE DRIVES:
SCF STATUS TAPE $*
COMMENT THIS CHECKS THE SPOOLER PRINT DEVICES:
SPOOLCOM DEV
COMMENT THIS CHECKS THE LINE HANDLERS:
SCF STATUS LINE $*
COMMENT THIS CHECKS THE STATUS OF TMF:
TMFCOM;STATUS TMF
COMMENT THIS CHECKS THE STATUS OF PATHWAY:
PATHCOM $ZVPT;STATUS PATHWAY;STATUS PATHMON
COMMENT THIS CHECKS ALL SACS:
SCF STATUS SAC $*
COMMENT
SCF STATUS ADAPTER $*
COMMENT
SCF STATUS LIF $*
COMMENT
SCF STATUS PIF $*
2. After you create this file, at a TACL prompt, type this command to execute the file
and automatically monitor many elements of your system:
> OBEY SYSCHK
For an example of the output that is sent to your home terminal when you execute a
command file such as SYSCHK, refer to
elements of the system being monitored are up and running normally.
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Example 3-2
THIS CHECKS ALL ADAPTERS
THIS CHECKS ALL LIFS
THIS CHECKS ALL PIFS
Automating Routine System Monitoring
into an EDIT file.
Example 3-3. This output shows that all
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