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Monitoring AS/400 System Status

The AS/400 Manager application maintains availability status variables for each managed AS/400 system. The status variables can contain any one of these values:

ACTIVE

Sign on to the AS/400 system is successful.

SUSPND

A SUSPEND command or an AXC0000 alert was issued for this AS/400 system. The AS/400 Manager application takes no action for an AS/400 system in SUSPND status. The suspension can be for a specified duration or it can be indefinite.

FAILED

AS/400 Manager has detected a communication error with an AS/400 system. Recovery is attempted.

ALARMS

AS/400 Manager is unable to recover from a FAILED status (the recovery retry attempts limit was reached).

CLOSED

AS/400 Manager takes no action for an AS/400 system. You can set this value as an initial status value in your configuration (AS4CFG.exe).

RSTART

The initial status after a CA Automation Point startup. It is also the status for a system leaving SUSPND state (time expired or RESUME command issued). You can set this status to have AS/400 Manager make an attempt to sign on to an AS/400 system by issuing the RESUME application command. The first time that activity on the session is required, a sign on is attempted. After this attempt:

• The status is set to ACTIVE if the sign on is successful.
• The status is set to FAILED if the sign on is not successful.

Important! Check the system status regularly. Also, process the warning messages issued by the REXX programs when a status change takes place. Initiate appropriate recovery or communications action if an ALARMS status occurs.