SMiC
System Management in Control


Software Product Description (SPD)


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Short introduction to SMiC

SMiC is a tool for system management on OpenVMS.

It automates the daily work for a system manager by checking processes, batch jobs, queues etc.

SMiC does not only check, but can also perform actions to restore the documented situation.
SMiC can use a master node, to keep track of the work that needs to be done.

The master node checks the availability of the client nodes and has a copy of all setup files.

The SMiC setup files are all in standard ASCII, so they can be read and modified using the preferred edittor. No special tool is needed to maintain the setup files.

The setup files will be used by SMiC to "know" what the normal situation is. There are scripts available to use the setup files during startup of the node. The advantage is that there is only one place to keep setup information.

Example:

DISKS.DAT has the following disk setup.

DSA1:           DISK11       DISK$DISK11       40%       $1$DKC100:,$1$DKC600:

This information will be used by the SMiC control procedure and can also be used by the system startup to mount the disk in a proper way.

It is very simple to add local procedures to SMiC.

SMiC has a web interface:

  1. Create system views.
  2. Manage the SMiC data files.
  3. Manage the SMiC backup setings.
  4. Manage the notifications which SMiC will send.

The web interface can be started on the SMiC master node.