Error Reporting Utility

[misn1day]

I am looking for a utility that can monitor the error reports on all of my AIX boxes. Does anyone know of a web based or similiar utility that can alert/keep track of errors from one central location? Kind of like what Big Brother does for disk space, memory, etc.

 

[aixat]

Hello,
IBM has service director and service agent when some hardware error and type perm happens you can get e mail. more info you can find on IBM website.

 

[Alize]

Without any tools, you can use errnotify class in odm, with a method sending a mail.
Try odmget errnotify to see the already defined objects.
Then odmadd to add a new method, like :
errnotify:
en_pid = 0
en_name = "myreport"
en_persistenceflg = 1
en_label = ""
en_crcid = 0
en_class = "H"
en_type = "PERM"
en_alertflg = ""
en_resource = ""
en_rtype = ""
en_rclass = ""
en_symptom = ""
en_err64 = ""
en_dup = ""
en_method = "/usr/lpp/diagnostics/bin/myscript $6 $9"
In that case your system will run the script "myscript" each time an "PERM" error on Hardware will be logged in your errorlog.
Use myscript to send a mail to system administrator.

Another thing : for monitoring FS space, network interface,.. you could use Netsaint (

http://www.netsaint.org),

a very efficient supervision tool running on AIX, Linux,...(freeware).

 

[misn1day]

The one thing that I wanted to stay away from was having to set up mail on all of my systems. I was hoping there was a Netsaint (I am actually using Nagios) like application that could alert me of new messages in the error log. I am presently looking into setting up syslog and having the results send to a syslog server. I am however having problems with this. Someone, somewhere has had to develop something that makes the error log process easier. I will keep looking and I appreciate all the comments.

 

[mrn]

Take a look at big brother

http://bb4.com/

May suit your needs
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