System Management in Control
Certo Certius
more surely than sure
On all OpenVMS servers the procedue SYSTEMCHECK is active.
This procedure executes a lot of control actions on the system.
One off these control actions executed by SYSTEMCHECK is to report every 15 minutes to the SMiC server that
the procedure is still up-and-running. SYSTEMCHECK will update a file on the SMiC server every 15 minutes,
so the SMiC server "knows" that SYSTEMCHECK is still active.
"System availability" reads that updated file and makes a simple graphic view so you can see in one view what is
the status of all the servers controlled bij SMiC.
The example shows us that the OpenVMS server on sunday february, the 7th, reported the whole day to
the SMiC server.
On the SMiC server a batchjob is running to ping some non OpenVMS systems, so this can be logged, and we
can see them in the availability overview.
