HP OpenVMS Systems

• The sys_check tool provides configuration and analysis of information gathered on the system. It is useful for debugging or diagnosing system problems. The sys_check tool gathers information on over 60 components and subsystems, and performs over 200 analysis operations. It gathers this information into easy to browse and transportable files. These files are sent to support engineering when escalating IPMT cases. It runs on all supported version of the Tru64 UNIX operating system and is included in the Tru64 UNIX operating system and the patch kits.
• The cfg2html tool is a UNIX shell script that creates system documentation for HP-UX 10+11, AIX, SCO-UX, SunOS and Linux systems in HTML and ASCII formats. Plugins for SAP, Oracle, Informix, MC/SG, FibreChannel, TIP/ix, Mass Storage like XP48/128/256/512/1024/12000, EVA3000/EVA5000, Network Node Manager, and OmniBack/DataProtector, and so forth, are included.

VMS_Check is a DCL procedure that runs on all the three OpenVMS architectures and is extendable -- you can include in it any series of OpenVMS commands as if you were entering them at the OpenVMS operating system command prompt (the $). The current version of the VMS_Check tool collects data from any system, standalone or in an OpenVMS Cluster, and presents it in both its original form and with HTML wrappers. The main report is an HTML file named of VMS_Check-<nodename>-<ddmonyy-hhmm>.HTML. For example:

VMS_Check-OWL-14MAR2005-1516.HTML

This main file is supported by several text and HTML files, which contain the actual data that make up the complete system report.

All of the VMS_Check report sections include information in tables or plain text which can easily be used elsewhere, such as in any of the Microsoft tools Word, Excel, etc.

Table 1 shows an example of a table generated on an OpenVMS Cluster system, including information about each node, its version, node name, current date and time, and system uptime.

The Goto references jump to the Top, Table of Contents and Bottom sections of the report.

The Section references jump to the System, Storage, Network, Database, Layered Products, Performance and Interactive sections of the report.

VMS_Check generates a bar graph for the percent of free disk space and the fragmentation index for all devices. Figure 2 shows the pie chart graph of the total disk capacity, which includes the total MB's used and free disk space.

Figure 2 - Mounted Devices Charts

GETSYI clusterwide information is shown in Table 6

$ @VMS_Check-Detail

This DCL command procedure actually performs the following steps:

$! Determine output file name
$!
$ nodename = f$getsyi("nodename")
$ systime = f$edit(''f$time()', "TRIM")
$ date = f$element(0, " ", systime)
$ time = f$element(1, " ", systime)
$ day = f$element(0, "-", date)
$ mon = f$element(1, "-", date)
$ year = f$element(2, "-", date)
$ hour = f$element(0, ":", time)
$ min = f$element(1, ":", time)
$ if f$length(day) .eq. 1 then day = "0"+day
$ filename = "VMS_Check-"+nodename+"-"+day+mon+year+"-"+hour+min+".HTML"
$! show symbol filename
$ SET PROC/PRIV=(ALL,NOBYPASS)
$ exec := SPAWN/NOWAIT/INPUT=NL:/OUTPUT='filename'
$! show symbol exec
$ EXEC @VMS_Check.COM HTML DETAIL

To invoke VMS_Check in a single system environment, enter the following commands:

$ SET PROC/PRIV=(ALL,NOBYPASS)
$ EXEC:= SPAWN/NOWAIT/INPUT=NL: -
 /PROCESS=VMS_Check -
 /OUTPUT=VMS_Check-'F$getsyi("NODENAME")'.HTML

$ EXEC @VMS_Check.COM HTML DETAIL

To debug VMS_Check, enter the following command:

$ EXEC @VMS_Check.COM DEBUG NODETAIL

The DEBUG option creates the VMS_Check.DEBUG file in the current directory. This file has a record of all actions performed by VMS_Check preceded by a time stamp for the start of each action.

To generate HTML output from all the nodes on the VMS Cluster, enter the following commands:

$ MCR SYSMAN
SYSMAN> SET ENV/CLUSTER
SYSMAN> DO -
_SYSMAN> SPAWN
_SYSMAN> /INPUT=NL:/OUTPUT=VMS_Check_'F$getsyi("NODENAME")'.HTML -
_SYSMAN> /PROCESS=VMS_Check -
_SYSMAN> @DSA110:[KOSTAS.DEV]VMS_Check.COM HTML NODETAIL
SYSMAN> EXIT

*---------------------------------------------------------------------*
*                                                                     *
* VMS_Check has successfully completed.                               *
*                                                                     *
*---------------------------------------------------------------------*

Generated by VMS_Check.COM X0.1-177 on 16-MAY-2005 14:13:31.10 

ftp> open a.b.c.d.com
Connected to a.b.c.d.com.
220 a.b.c.d.com FTP Server (Version 5.4) Ready.
User (a.b.c.d.com:(none)): kostas
331 Username kostas requires a Password
Password:
230 User logged in.
ftp> cd [kostas.dev.prey]
250-CWD command successful.
250 New default directory is DSA11:[KOSTAS.DEV.PREY]
ftp> hash
Hash mark printing On ftp: (2048 bytes/hash mark) .
ftp> prompt
Interactive mode Off .
ftp> mget *
...
ftp> quit

For information about sys_check, go to: http://h30097.www3.hp.com/sys_check/.

To get a copy of the VMS_CHECK tool please download: http://h71000.www7.hp.com/openvms/journal/v7/vms_check.zip