Peter, Lets just say that "No FDC is a good FDC". So while there may be a good reason to ignore FDC's unless you have an issue. How do you know you are arguing with a 500 pound black bear in the dark unless he "reaches out and touches you" Not a pleasant thing if you have ever been there.
Proactive monitoring and the ole "Stich in time saves your arse" is a good way to go. Have I looked at the dir and said WOW where did these come from and deleted them? Yes. But not on production. Here is where you can qualify things. I am in financials. So if you get a flag in production. Act on it. The transfer you may have saved today will keep your job tomorrow. Doing this on QA?? I have seen sites where QA quickly becomes production in the thick of things. Try explaining to the snr. mgt WHY the QA QMGR cannot be used in an emergency. Remember also QA is where the Business people are shacking things down. These are also the people (not your imed manager) who control your source of income. ENOUGH SAID!!! The dev box??? Tough luck dev guys!!!!!! (hahaha) This one depends on how busy you are and how critical things get.
All said an done, I don't like some wise guy (or GAL) coming up to me infront of people and making me look bad by pointing out somethings I should know. So I like the little script there that EMAILs a warning about the creation of a file. Also being in contact with IBM support about your FDC gives you a chance to excercise your invested support dollars AND maybe learn something you didn't know before from some IBM MQSeries wiseguy!!!
bobbee
From: "Bullock, Rebecca (CSC)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: MQSeries List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Do go looking for FDCs when "nothing" is wrong? Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 12:29:27 -0500
Peter, I bet you get responses all over the place on this one! Personally, while I usually only worry about looking at the FDCs right away at if there is a problem, I do have a script that runs regularly on each qmgr machine and checks for FDCs and lets me know if there are any. And then I will take a look at the them. And I have seen places that actively monitor the error directories for FDCs. --Rebecca
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-----Original Message----- From: Potkay, Peter M (PLC, IT) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 12:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Do go looking for FDCs when "nothing" is wrong?
I was just poking around on one server, and I happened to find a ton of FDCs. I went to look at the QA version of this server, and there were FDCs. The production version - FDCs. I started looking at other unrelated queue managers - about half had at least one FDC! Some had 20 or 30, some in one day, other spread out over the years. All are 5.3 CSD04. Both Solaris and Windows. The worst ones were the queue managers participating in Microsoft Clusters.
Based on this, I feel like there is a ton of stuff that needs fixing. The first thing you do when you have major problem is go look for the inevitable FDC.
BUT, everything seems fine! There are no issues, MQ keeps working, all application areas are happy.
Do you guys generally go looking for problems by trying to debug FDCs? Maybe even have monitoring tools alert you anytime any FDC is created anywhere?
Or unless there is a symptom of a problem elsewhere, should I just ignore them?
Peter Potkay MQSeries Specialist The Hartford Financial Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] x77906 IBM MQSeries Certified
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