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Conference csc32::consolemanager

Title:	POLYCENTER Console Manager
Notice:	Kits, Scans, Docs on CSC32:: as PCM$KITS:,PCM$DOCS:, PCM$SCANS:
Moderator:	CSC32::BUTTERWORTH

Created:	Thu Aug 06 1992
Last Modified:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	1541
Total number of notes:	6564

492.0. "review events for ALL systems" by DARGLE::COUGHLAN () Mon Nov 28 1994 10:28

A customer is monitoring over fifty nodes with PCM. When he comes in in the 
morning, he would like to see all the events which occurred throughout the 
night for all systems. It is not possible to leave an eventlist window active
throughout the night and I don't see any option to review events for ALL systems.

Any help appreciated.

Dave.

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
492.1		OPG::SIMON		`Mon Nov 28 1994 13:59`	9
	Why not get the customer to write an action routine to dump the events to a file. Then create a filter to call the action only at night. I got a couple of students on a PCM training course to do this as an exercise using DCL. It was really quite simple. A more elegant one could also be written in C using the API. Cheers SImon......
492.2	Yes, you can	ZENDIA::DBIGELOW	Innovate, Integrate, Evaporate	`Mon Nov 28 1994 14:22`	18
	Dave, You can leave the event list running for as long as you want and the customer should be able to see all events that s/he has priviledge to connect to. All they would need to do is to clear the event window before they went home at night. They can also extract all events from the command line interface for a specifiec group of systems as well as a specific amount of time. Without refering to the manual, I'd venture to guess that the syntax (on VMS) would be: $ Console extract/event/since = date:time /system=all or something to that effect. We hope to put this functionality into a window format for the next release. Dave
492.3	Action routine it will have to be	DARGLE::COUGHLAN		`Mon Nov 28 1994 16:36`	19
	Thanks for the quick replies. This particular customer is running PCM on OSF/1 but the -e -s argument seems to ignore the specified time. The time format I have used is taken from the examples but in any case, it will not accept the host name as ALL. e.g console -x -e -t -s 9411281200 ALL I shall tell the customer to create an action routine to write the events to a logfile which can then be reviewed each morning. On VMS, there is no /system qualifier which can be used with the extract command and the ALL as hostname is not accepted so I guess you would have to use the same workaround. Glad to hear it will be included in next release. Thanks, Dave.
492.4	It's ALL by default	ZENDIA::DBIGELOW	Innovate, Integrate, Evaporate	`Mon Nov 28 1994 21:07`	7
	Dave, You get "ALL" by default when running the Event List window. Again, "ALL" means all the systems you are entitled to see. Dave