VMS 7.3 Batch job error report through SIM7?

[Tom E]

Wondering if anyone knows if its possible to have SIM7 identify and report if a Batch job or Queue fails. We have Alphas loaded with VMS 7.3. We have the latest IM7 loaded on a windows 2000 Server.

The ultimate goal is to get an email if a batch job or even a batch process fails. There are other VMS errors I would like to get emails on as well.

Thanks

Tom

[David Claypool]

HP Systems Insight Manager and Insight Manager 7 are two different product. hpSIM is the replacement for IM7.

You'll need an OpenVMS expert on this one (you could even be one), but the big question is whether or not OpenVMS has the ability to generate an SNMP trap on the completion/failure of the batch process. That is the only way to signal to a remote IM7/hpSIM system an event.

If that is possible, then you will need a corresponding MIB to be able to compile into IM7/hpSIM.

If the answer to those 2 questions is yes, then it's no problem for either IM7 or hpSIM to receive an event and report on it (including generating an email).

[Rob Buxton]

Why do you not just e-mail from the VMS Batch Job directly?

The standard VMS Mailer can be configured to point to whatever your e-mail gateway is.

Our VMS Jobs just send e-mail directly to my Exchange e-mail account. That just requires correct coding in the DCL

It's unusual for a Queue to fail, but I do know there are free VMS Command procedures to monitor Queues, and restart Print Queues if required.

IM cannot monitor queues. It relies on Agents delivering SNMP Traps when an error is detected and there's nothing like that.
In order to achieve that you'd need to write an App that used a SNMP Trap Sender process to deliver a trap and then design and load the MIBs into IM to correctly report on it.

But, a way to achieve what you want is to set the queues to /retain=error and then check the queues for any jobs that are listed in the queues as failed.