Re: alarmprogram.sh

Sadi G'rsoy wrote: > Hi all, > Our platform is: > IDS 9.40 FC1 > AIX 5.2 > > We want to modify alarmprogram.sh. We want the program to work like > ontape -c. That is, when one logical log becomes full, we want it to be> archived, not wait until all logs are full. The default alarm program ($INFORMIXDIR/etc/log_full.sh), which I presume is still supplied with version 9.40, does this already, albeit using onbar. This is very difficult using ontape and is probably more easily achieved using ontape -c without being triggered by alarm events. Remember that ontape -c will continue writing to the end of a tape, whereas ontape -awill OVERWRITE the tape, unless you do some clever shuffling of tapes or disk files. If you do use an alarm program, one thing to be careful of is that ontape -a will backup ALL completed logs. However, the alarm programwill be triggered for each individual log that fills, so you need to be careful that the alarm program first checks to see that ontape is not already running. If you are concerned about your logs filling up, then one trick that used to be supplied in a sample alarm program in $INFORMIXDIR/etc was to check the percentage of logs that are full after each log fills, then perform a backup after that threshold is exceeded. But again, you would need to ensure that the previous backup device is safe. > For this purpose, we investigated the commands: > ALRM_NOTWORTHY=1 > ALRM_INFO=2 > ALRM_ATTENTION=3 > ALRM_EMERGENCY=4 > ALRM_FATAL=5 These are the alarm severity values. Only values 2-5 trigger your alarm program. > EVENT_SEVERITY=$1 > EVENT_CLASS=$2 > EVENT_MSG="$3" > EVENT_ADD_TEXT="$4" > EVENT_FILE="$5" These are the 5 parameters that can be passed to your alarm program, the last 2 being optional. > but we could not find any descriptions about them. > Do you have any suggestions? See the chapter on "Event Alarms" in the "Informix Administrator's Reference for IDS" manual. Cheers, -- Mark. +----------------------------------------------------------+-----------+ | Mark D. Stock mailto:mdstock@MydasSolutions.com |//////// /| | Mydas Solutions Ltd http://MydasSolutions.com |///// / //| | +-----------------------------------+//// / ///| | |We value your comments, which have |/// / ////| | |been recorded and automatically |// / /////| | |emailed back to us for our records.|/ ////////| +----------------------+-----------------------------------+-----------+