Using System State Manager › Methods for Setting the Desired State › Options for Initializing Desired States

Options for Initializing Desired States

You can select the following options to initialize the desired state of SSM resources:

• Option 1: Use if you are using the Schedule Manager and all of the resources on your system are defined in the current schedule.

  Causes SSM to reset the desired states of resources to the desired states named in the schedule that is currently active under the Schedule Manager feature. For example, if the current schedule lists the desired state of a DASD as ONLINE, the Schedule Manager changes the desired state of that DASD from UNKNOWN to ONLINE.

• Option 2: Use if you are using the Schedule Manager and all of the resources on your system are defined in a schedule different from the active one.

  Causes SSM to reset the desired states of resources to the desired states named in a schedule other than the currently active one. Selecting option 2 produces a message asking you to enter the name of the schedule you want. Once you supply a schedule name, the Schedule Manager uses the desired state values specified in that schedule.

• Option 3: Use after a system IPL to reset the desired states of all resources if you are not using the Schedule Manager feature.

  Causes SSM to extract the desired state value for each resource from the value in the IPL_STATE column for that resource.

• Option 4: Use to reset the desired states of all resources if you are recycling CA OPS/MVS or restarting it after an abend, and you are not using the Schedule Manager.

  Causes SSM to extract the desired state value for each resource from the value in the CHKPOINT_STATE column for that resource. The values in the CHKPOINT_STATE column are the desired states that resources had before the last CA OPS/MVS or system shutdown.

• Option 5

  Use the current desired state value for each resource. Do nothing.

• Option U

  Take the default response value specified in the options message.

If you customize SSM for your environment, you also must define your own method for initiating the DESIRED_STATE values for your resources.