Tivoli.
-----Original Message----- From: F Vartan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 8:54 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Need help for MQ Automation process How do you monitor the channels? Thanks. FV --- "Potkay, Peter M (PLC, IT)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Everything I listed we do with Tivoli. > > Tivoli can do more. > > There are also many other products that are more > specific towards MQ > monitoring. > > If you are an MQ person with only MQ to monitor, > Tivoli is an OK choice, but > I would prefer something MQ specific like QPASA. > > If you are on the monitoring team for your > corporation and have dozens if > not 100s of different things to monitor, then Tivoli > is a great choice since > your team only needs to learn one tool. It is not > feasible for a monitoring > team to be proficient in a hundred different tools, > even each of those 100 > may be the absolute best in what it does. Tivoli is > a good all around > choice. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: F Vartan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, July 18, 2003 9:20 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Need help for MQ Automation process > > > Peter- > > Thanks... Do you do all this with Tivoli? Or did you > have to write a program for some of them? Maybe, I > should start reading that Tivoli manual. I am new on > the team and just getting familiar with it. > > Any other ideas anyone? > > Francois > > > --- "Potkay, Peter M (PLC, IT)" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > We use Tivoli to check the status of every Queue > > Manager every 5 minutes. If > > any QM is down, and it is not a scheduled outage, > we > > get paged. > > > > We check the XMIT queue depth with Tivoli. If the > > depth of an XMIT queue is > > greater than 5 for 2 consecutive checks, we get > > paged. We do not check batch > > channel / XMIT queues. > > > > We check DLQs for an increase in depth. This sends > > an email, not a page, > > unless the DLQ is rapidly filling up. > > > > And any application whose queue depth is supposed > to > > be zero when things are > > working is monitored by queue depth. If the depth > is > > greater than 0 for 2 > > consecutive checks, the application people get > > paged. > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: F Vartan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Friday, July 18, 2003 10:36 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Need help for MQ Automation process > > > > > > Hi Listers, > > > > We are on WMQ 5.3 on NT and 5.3 on OS/390. > > > > I am not an experienced MQ administrator. I have > > just > > been asked to automate some of the activities. For > > instance when a certain error occurs what kind of > > action should be taken automatically? Should it be > > displayed on the operator console or the person > > paged? > > The only tool we are using for MQ is Tivoli for > MQ. > > The company is not considering to buy a monitoring > > tool. Although something from CA might be > > considered. > > > > All events on the queue managers are enabled. On > the > > queues the "queue full" event is enabled. I would > > like > > to know what I can do with the very little that I > > have (which is Tivoli) to do some automation. I > > would like to do things like if a queue is full or > a > > message is too big for a queue: display a message > > on > > the Operator s console. What else would you > > recommend > > I do? I would very much appreciate the help/input > of > > the experienced MQ Administartors. > > > > Regards, > > > > Francois > > > > > > __________________________________ > > Do you Yahoo!? > > SBC Yahoo! 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