VMSES/E questions
Hi, Can we get a little help from a VMSES/E expert with some trivia questions we have about working with PSP buckets? 1) A PSP bucket can have a PTF EXCLUDE LIST. (I am working with 0901RSU, which in this case the list is empty.) When we order a PSP bucket for a particular RSU, if there are any PTFs in the EXCLUDE list, is there somewhere we have to manually enter those PTFs so VMSES/E will exclude them? Or is there a file, or files, automagically included in the SERVLINK envelope that has that list? I recall having to manually do something with an EXCLUDE list in years past, however, that may have been in the days before VMSES/E. 2) If we should have to manually build an exclude list, do we simply use VMFSIM SRVDEP and the procedure in 4.3.8.2 Building an EXCLUDE List Containing All Dependents of a PTF of the VMSES book? 3) When we order a PSP bucket on IBMLINK using Preventive Service Planning, it gives you the choice of order PTFs in the subset include list and order all PTFs (including PTFs for closed APARs) referenced in the subset. Is there a particular advantage to using either of these? What is recommended? I used order all for 0901RSU. Thanks. Hal Schmitigal VM Systems Management, Nortel Account h...@nortel.com
Re: detect VMREAD or CPREAD
You can use the READCHEK function in Performance Toolkit to get the following status conditions of a virtual machine. Note that your PERFSVM must be in monitor mode, collecting data. See HELP FCX CBASVMCF. So you could, for example, create a small EXEC to watch a list of critical service machines that wakes up every 15 minutes and does READCHEKs for them and sends a warning message, or whatever, for any that do not get a RC = 57 from READCHEK. RC 5: Missing argument: User-ID not specified RC 22: Not authorized for 'LOCATE userid' cmd. RC 45: User is not logged on RC 0: User is not disconnected RC 1: User is in VM or CP read state RC 4: User is in disabled wait state RC 6: User set to log off (read state or disabled wait state) RC 2: User is in CP read state RC 3: CP function active RC 145: User has been forced RC 57: User is disconnected and running Note also that AUDITOR can watch service virtual machines and is capable of detecting a userid in a disabled wait. However Perfkit gives you more options. Hal Schmitigal Perot Systems Corporation
Re: MONWRITE files
FYI, I found that MONVIEW output has the wrong date beginning 2/29/08.
I updated MDATTRAN REXX replacing the call to CONVERT_TOD with a CALLPIPE
using DATECONV. I let IBM know, so maybe someone will put an update on
the downloads page soon.
MDATTRAN SREXXJ1 V 80 Trunc=80 Size=133 Line=35 Col=1 Alt=
0
===
|...+1+2+3+4+5+6..
0035 mytod = C2X(SUBSTR(monrec, 9, 8))/* 20080320 */
0036 'CALLPIPE STRLITERAL x'mytod , /* 20080320 */
0037 '| DATECONV TODABS FULLDATE TIMEOUT' ,/* 20080320 */
0038 '| VAR MYTODCONV' /* 20080320 */
0039
0040xrecdata = SUBSTR(monrec, 21, X2D(rlength) - 20)
0041
0042/* Check for D1/R4 which contains the timezone offset */
0043IF (domain = 01) (record = 0004) THEN DO
0044 IF tz_secs = 0 THEN skip = 1
0045 syszone = SUBSTR(xrecdata,61,4)
0046 /* determine if negative or positive tz offset */
0047 IF LEFT(syszone,1) = x2c(FF) THEN DO /* negative */
0048 tz_secs = x2d('') - c2d(syszone) + 1
0049 tz_secs = tz_secs * (-1)
0050END
0051ELSE tz_secs = c2d(syszone) /* positive */
0052 END
0053
0054 /* CALL CONVERT_TOD(XTOD tz_secs) *//* 20080320 */
0055 /* MONVIEW TOD: 20080320 00:07:00.670057000 *//* 20080320 */
0056 /* MYTODCONV: 03/19/2008 00:07:00.670057 *//* 20080320 */
0057 parse var mytodconv mm '/' dd '/' time/* 20080320 */
0058 convtime = || mm || dd left(time,18,'0') /* 20080320 */
Hal Schmitigal
VM Systems Management, Nortel Account
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