We've used the High Service Time event for years, with very good results. First, make sure that PERFMEV(ENABLED) is set for the qmgr. Then you set the QSVCIEV(HIGH) on the transmit queue, and set QSVCINT to an appropriate value. We generally use QSVCIEV(60000), which means that if a message is on the transmit queue for more than 60 seconds a "High Service Time" event is raised. When the problem has cleared, an "OK Service Time" event is generated.
I don't use Omegamon, so I don't know how it handles events. But the product we do use gets passed any MQ event messages, and allows actions to be performed. It was simple to send pages out. I'm sure Omeagamon can do it, too. Also, the high depth/low depth events could be used instead (or in addition to).
It took a little playing to settle on the 60 second thing when we first implemented this. Now when there's network problems, I frequently know about them before our Data Comm people do (which tells you something about our DC people, BTW). Also, we set our transmit queues to 5 minutes when first shift ends, since we had some nightly server reboots that were causing me to get spurious pages (at 5:00 AM). Then we set them back to 60 seconds when the day begins.
The nice thing about using events is that once you get a high event, MQ starts "looking" for the OK event. I get a single page when the problem occurs, and another when it clears. Other home grown solutions we had here were sending so many pages that it became white noise.
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Hello... How are folks monitoring XMIT queues for page alerts? Seems to
me that if the depth of an XMIT queue was on the rise, but had
intermittent decreases there is no need to be paged - if however there
was an increase w/no decreases, that would be a problem and a page would
be warranted. A friend suggested we use ' Service Interval High' to key
off of, but I'm not sure what to code in Omegamon to do this.
Ideas... Suggestions?
Thanks,
Dave W.
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