If you simply switch system availability monitoring (SAM) on for a particular CICS® system, CICSPlex® SM issues the
default notifications when one of the predefined conditions occurs. That is, CICSPlex SM generates
an external message and an event notification. The default values for these
messages are shown in Default notification values. You can customize the external
message and the event notification to suit local requirements. For example,
you might want to change the message text for a particular condition, or change
the severity of a condition, or selectively turn off parts of system availability monitoring.
This example shows you how to use the Web User Interface to modify the
default system availability monitoring notifications you requested in the previous example (Switching system availability monitoring (SAM) on for a MAS) for CICS system CICSPA01. The changes you want to make are as
follows:
- If CICSPA01 is not available between 09:00 and 17:30, an alert is to be
sent to NetView® by CMAS CMSSYS1, and an event notification, with a severity
of HW, is to be issued. However, no external message is to be generated.
- If the system becomes short on storage (SOS), the default actions should
be taken, but the priority of the event should be Very High Severe (VHS).
- No notification of system or transaction dumps is required.
- Create an action definition.
- From the WUI main menu, click Administration views-->System
availability monitoring administration views-->Action definitions to
open the Action definition tabular view.
- If the current context is not PLXPROD1, specify PLXPROD1 in the Context field and click Refresh.
- Click the Create1 action
button at the bottom of the screen.
- Provide the following information:
- Action name
- RTAPAY01
- Description
- CICSPA01 unavailable
- Generate event option
- YES
- Action priority
- 255
- Message to send when event occurs
- AOR CICSPA01 is unavailable
- Generate external message option
- NO
- Generate SNA generic alert option
- YES
- CMAS to which NetView attached
- CMSSYS1
- Message text when alert is raised
- AOR CICSPA01 is unavailable
- Message text when alert is cleared
- AOR CICSPA01 is now available
- Restart MAS option
- NO
- Click Yes at the bottom of the screen to create
the definition. The Action definition tabular view is
redisplayed.
- Change the default system availability monitoring actions for CICSPA01.
- From the WUI main menu, click Administration views-->System
availability monitoring administration views-->CICS system definitions to open the CICS system definition tabular view.
- Select the entry for CICSPA01, and click the Update action
button.
- To replace the default system availability monitoring notifications with your own,
- Type in the name of the action definition you created in step 1 (RTAPAY01)
in the Action for system availability monitoring event field
- In the Severity for system availability monitoring event field, select HW from the drop-down menu.
- To change the severity of the SOS event to Very High Severe, select VHS
from the drop-down menu in the Severity for short-on-storage
(SOS) event field.
- To switch off notification of system and transaction dumps, select NO
in the severity fields for both the system dump and transaction dump events.
The updated system availability monitoring actions take effect immediately.
If you want to use an existing
definition as a template, select a definition from the list first.
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