[acascianelli]

I want to setup something on an pseries machine running AIX5.3 that will automatically email me when a new entry is added to the error report. Is there any simple way to do this?

[Frans]

This is actually a big subject and I know I can just give you scripts to do this but you need to think about this and what you want out of this


Email Scripts example
Scripts can be created to E-mail you as problems come in but you may end up with a lot of email when there is a big problem causing your mailbox to fail

#!/bin/ksh
################################################## ##########################
# Errort message mail script
RUNTIME=$(date +%d%m%Y)
################################################## ##########################
# User setup
User1=”email@comp.contry”
User2=”email@comp.contry”
################################################## ##########################
#DATE setup
dayT=`date +%m%d`
TZ=+24
dayY=`date +%m%d`
################################################## ###########################
# Go to all systems and check for errors You can use dsh , rsh , or ssh

for i in `system.list nawk '{print $1}'`
do
echo " $i ##\c" 2>&1 >> err_send.$$
echo " `grep $i /etc/hosts|awk '{print$2}'`" 2>&1 >> err_send.$$
rsh $i uptime 2>&1 >> err_send.$$
rsh $i errpt |grep "[[:space:]]" |egrep "$dayT|$dayY" 2>&1 >> err_send.$$
echo " Disk space Problems " 2>&1 >> err_send.$$
rsh $i "df -k | grep 100%" 2>&1 >> err_send.$$
echo " " 2>&1 >> err_send.$$
done
################################################## ##########################
# Send mail to users

/usr/bin/mail -s "Error report " "${user1} ${user2}" < err_send.$$


Manual process can be used

I have created a menu system scripts that access all my systems and report errors on the systems from one single point (normally NIM )
I created a menu system that can do tasks as well as list all errors on the systems


Monitoring tools
Monitoring tools like Tivoli Monitor can be used in conjunction with syslog by sending error log messages to Syslog it monitors all messages for you to a central console.

[acascianelli]

How do you use that script, as a cron task?

[Frans]

I don’t use the Email script any more I use menu system that looks at all the system because there is now to many Lpars and the email is a problem

The script use to run from cron once a day to collect any problems in the last 23 hours. on all systems

You can change the format of the scripts to run more frequently but then need to adjust the way you look at time.


Using this format in your scripts
errpt -s/-e mmddhhmmyy ( month , day , hour , min and year )


Run this first
date +%m%d%H%M%y > /tmp/date_old


then make this sort of script and add to cron

StartDate =`cat /tmp/date_old`
If [ “${StartDate}” = ““ ]
then
echo “ this is first run “
date +%m%d%H%M%y > /tmp/date_old
errpt –a |more
else
errpt -a -s $StartDate > yourfile
fi

use the rest of my scripts to mail