Preparing the IBM Communications Server › SMF Record Creation › Generate SMF Records

Generate SMF Records

The configuration members for the Communications Server include parameters that do the following:

• Specify which SMF records are created
• Identify the SMF subtypes

Note: Only SMF record type 119 is intercepted by the SOLVE SSI region.

To ensure SMF records are generated

1. Check the PROFILE.TCPIP configuration member for TCP connect, FTP client, and Telnet client record creation.

   The SMFCONFIG statement lets you specify whether or not SMF records are created for the following:

   • TCP connection start
   • TCP connection end
   • FTP and Telnet client records

   Example:

   ...
   SMFCONFIG TYPE119 TCPINIT TCPTERM FTPCLIENT TN3270CLIENT 
   ...
   

   An SMF record will not be created if you omit the SMFCONFIG statement or a particular parameter.

2. Check the PROFILE.TCPIP configuration member TELNETPARMS section for Telnet server record creation to ensure that it contains the following line:

   TELNETPARMS
   ...
   ;  Telnet Server connection SMF logging
   SMFINIT TYPE119
   SMFTERM TYPE119
   ENDTELNETPARMS
   ;
   

   The SMFINIT statement controls session start and the SMFTERM statement controls session end records.

3. Check the FTP.DATA configuration member to ensure that it contains the following line:

   SMF    TYPE119
   

   You should use standard record subtypes and ensure that you set the SMF parameters for FTP to the same type as you set for Telnet, that is, SMF type 119.

   The SMF statement may be used to set the default value for all types.

   An SMF record will not be created if you omit these parameters.

4. If you have made any changes in step 3, restart the FTP server started task.
5. If you have made any changes in steps 1 or 2, restart the TCP/IP started task.

Note: Alternatively, you can issue these changes in an OBEYFILE.