Systems Operations Suite

Suite Componenets | System Event Manager

The Halcyon System Event Manager comprises a set of monitors that can detect many types of events and situations on your system. The monitors included with the product are:

• Job Queue Monitor
• Device Monitor
• Output Queue Monitor
• Object Monitor
• Distribution Queue Monitor
• User Profile Monitor
• Inactivity Monitor
• System Status Monitor
• Pool Monitor
• Job Status Monitor

Job Queue Monitor

The Job Queue Monitor can monitor the status of the job queue itself and can also monitor the number of jobs waiting on a job log.

It can also determine whether a particular job has been queuing for longer than expected.

You decide what action to take if an undesirable situation is detected.
Timings of certain critical jobs may be important to the smooth running of a
business - imagine what would happen if payroll did not run on time!

Device Monitor

The Device Monitor can monitor the configuration status of any type of device, including printers, tape drives, communication lines etc. and can raise an alert or take appropriate action if an undesirable situation is detected.

For example, it can take immediate action if a communication line goes into
Recovery Pending or Varied Off status.

Output Queue Monitor

The Output Queue Monitor can monitor the number of spooled files queuing on any output queue and can raise an alert or take the appropriate action if a specified threshold is exceeded.

It can also monitor for a particular spooled file entry arriving on an output queue, or the length of time spooled files have been queuing.

Or it can raise an alert if the number of pages in a spooled file exceeds a certain amount.

It can also monitor the status of the output queue itself.

Object Monitor

The Object Monitor can monitor the existence of any type of object, including objects in the IFS. It can also monitor for the existence of a member within a file.

If a file exists, the monitor can check to see whether it contains any data and/or if it contains more than the specified number of records.

The contents of data areas can also be checked against specific values.

Distribution Queue Monitor

The Distribution Queue Monitor can monitor the status of a distribution queue and the queue depth.

User Profile Monitor

The User Profile Monitor can monitor that status of user profiles, detecting any that become disabled, and can also monitor the storage used by each user.

Inactivity Monitor

The Inactivity Monitor can monitor any interactive job, including those connected via TCP/IP, to detect when a job has been inactive for more than a specified amount of time.

Different selection criteria can be applied to different groups of jobs, users or subsystems.

The action taken can be made dependent on the program being run, the job status (e.g. LCKW, DSPW etc.), the user or the time of day, etc.
Signed-on sessions can be disconnected or ended, or a screen saver can be activated, optionally with password protection.

System Status Monitor

The System Status Monitor can monitor the number of jobs in the system, the ASP used, the amount of CPU being used, the number of batch jobs held, etc.

Pool Monitor

The Pool Monitor can check pool size, number of data base pages or non-database faults, jobs going wait-to-ineligible etc.

Job Status Monitor

The Job Status Monitor can monitor users or jobs exceeding time slice, job
priority, CPU percentage, and also specified jobs that have been running for longer than expected.

It can also determine whether an expected job is indeed active.

Ease of Use

The Halcyon Event Manager was developed, and continues to be developed, by a team of ex-IT Managers. We know only too well that I.T. personnel work in a busy department and very often do not have time to read through manuals to find out how a product works. Halcyon Software screens are, in the main, selfexplanatory, so a minimal amount of manual reading is required.

You will also find that the software is shipped with system defaults already
defined, thereby helping you to get up and running in the shortest possible time.