Good afternoon Jan, We use Tivoli monitor which works good (but not great), and we also wanted to have a second method, so I looked at PROPs with much disappointment. However we did come up with capturing exception messages from Perfkit and send the information to our operational center.
You need to have Perfkit installed on your VM system. We focused on capturing high DASD I/O and high CPU usage on our zLinux servers. We wrote a separate set of scripts on each Linux server, not using PERFKIT, to check swapping and memory (using crontab). But memory and swapping may also be done through PERFKIT, I just did not explore that option yet. This involved setting limits in FCONX $PROFILE on PERFSVM, and then creating a REXX (JSEND) to pass the message from VM to a Linux guest, which in turn passed the message to our operators in our situation room to notify us of any problems. I can send you detail information on the simple code we wrote to your email address off the list if you would like. Drop me a request to my personal email, jhchap...@comcast.net, and I will pass you that information. James Chaplin Systems Programmer, MVS, zVM & zLinux -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:linux-...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Jan de Wet - Business Connexion Sent: Tuesday, September 08, 2009 3:33 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Prop concatenating lines Hi I am trying to use PROP to monitor Linux Red Hat I am elimination all lines that are OK in the RTABLE to catche any strange messages I found that in PROP, some lines are concatenated These are lines that seem to end on a X'FF' On the Linux console they apear as separate messages How can I get them as separate messages on PROP ex on Linux Starting system logger: [ OK ].. Starting kernel logger: [ OK ].. Starting portmap: [ OK ].. Starting NFS statd: [ OK ].. Starting RPC idmapd: in PROP ZABBIX03 BCXZVM : [ OK ]...STARTING SYSTEM LOGGER: [ OK ]...STARTING KERNEL LOGGER: ZABBIX03 BCXZVM : [ OK ]...STARTING PORTMAP: [ OK ]...STARTING NFS STATD: ZABBIX03 BCXZVM : [ OK ]...STARTING RPC IDMAPD: thank you Jan de Wet Deployment | Data Centre Services office +27 (0)11 729 5436 | fax +27 (0)86 572 5720 | mobile +27 (0)82 902 1996 web site www.bcx.co.za <http://www.bcx.co.za/> Email: jan.de...@bcx.co.za Jesus Christ is my Lord This e-mail and its contents are subject to the Business Connexion (Pty) Ltd e-mail legal notice available at: http://www.bcx.co.za/disclaimer.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
