HORIZONT 1 TWS/WebAdmin Tips & Tricks HORIZONT Software for Datacenters Garmischer Str. 8 D- 80339...

HORIZONT 1 TWS/WebAdmin Tips & Tricks

HORIZONTSoftware for Datacenters

Garmischer Str. 8 D- 80339 MünchenTel ++49(0)89 / 540 162 - 0www.horizont-it.com

Web Interface to TWS

TWS/WebAdmin DSTips & Tricks

TWS/WebAdmin DS


Table of Contents

• Advanced Filtering Tips

• Extended Events Tracking & Monitoring

• Backup Management

• Event Driven Automation Support

• Trace Log

• Audit Log

• User’s Options

• LDAP authentication through PAM


Advanced Filtering Tips

We recommended to switch the “filter selection” mode.Using filters result avoids performance problems of TWS/WebAdmin and TWS!



Unfiltered data may cause problems even if paging is available

The shortcuts to the filter pages make it easy to apply filters



Wildcards are allowed in all filter pages…

Scheduled time filtering – Specify a time range here

...or use comfortable list boxes


Scheduled Time FilteringScheduled time filters are important to monitor jobstreams. Since TWS 8.3 names of individual jobstream instances can have identical names

Example: Scheduled time filter “TODAY” = show all streams that scheduled for today. Very useful if your plan spans two or more days!



TWS experts or advanced users may prefer to specify the filter manually by using TWS syntax. This is also useful if more complex filters are to defined.

All filters can be saved to the user profile to use them at a later time.



Click on the bookmarked link to go get the appropriate listing directly.Example: Show today’s abends

Use this option to add filters to browser’s own bookmarks


TWS/WebAdmin’s Event Tracker

• TWS/WebAdmin’s Event Tracker writes its events to standard TWS events log, as a result standard procedures like alert triggering are supported automatically

Allows to react on events that are not supported by TWSAllows to react on events that are not supported by TWS

TWS/WebAdmin Event Tracker

TWS Batchman

TWSPlan/Database

Data

Global TWS

Events Log

TWS/WebAdmin Event Collector

Standard event types provider

New event types


Event “Job Long”

• For each job TWS keeps it’s own run time statistics

• The “Job Long” event is triggered if a job is running longer than usually

• Alerts defined for the “Job Long” event helps to warn administrators early to avoid production delays.

The first event we have implemented is “Job Long” – The first event we have implemented is “Job Long” –

It signalizes if a job is running too longIt signalizes if a job is running too long


Backup

In case of modifications TWS/WebAdmin stores the “old” definition of any TWS database object to an internal backup repository


Backup Administration

TWS/WebAdmin backup manager allows to browse the history of TWS definitions modifications.



filter to reduce the resulting list

Integrated full text search function


Backup AdministrationList of stored modifications matching the specified filter

Click on the backup filename link to show the content



Select entries and click on “compare” to display the differences


Backup Files Compare FunctionOriginal (older) version at the left, new version at the right side

Red text shows the difference in details


Event Driven Workload Automation

• Add or modify event rules– Web forms and dialogues

– Text edit for advanced users

• Deploy event rules– Execute "planman-deploy" at the MDM out of TWS/WebAdmin

• Active Event Rules Monitoring– Activate/deactivate event rule instances

– MONMAN status monitoring

• Invoked Actions Monitoring– With direct links to the plan

The new version of TWS/WebAdmin supports “Event The new version of TWS/WebAdmin supports “Event

Driven Workload Automation”Driven Workload Automation”


Event Rules Administration

Event rules in the main menu

Click on the event rule name to display details…

…or select a rule and click on e.g. “modify”


Event Rule Design – Common Options

Click “Next” to continue with the definition of the event conditions


Event Rule Design - Conditions

Click “Next” to continue to the definition of the event action

Create the set of conditions dynamically

Condition attributes corresponding to the actual “Condition type”


Event Rule Design - Actions

Dynamically create the set of actions to be taken

Click “Save” to submit modifications

Set of action attributes corresponding to the actual “Action type”


Event Rule Source Definition

Text Edit function:For many modifications it is still faster and easier to do in the source code


Active Event Rules Monitoring

Event rule name

Event triggering condition, e.g. “Any Job that goes into ERROR” Event reaction, e.g.

jobstream submission


Action Runs Monitoring

Action of this event was executed

Action was “Submit jobstream”

Direct link to the plan jobstream list to see the status of the executed jobstream


TWS/WebAdmin Trace Logs

The trace log reports what happens in background while a user executes a function through TWS/WebAdmin.

Especially interesting: Low level calls and return values, e.g. TWS, SQL database, file system, authentication chains

Enable/disable trace logs



1) Execute the request

2) Download the trace log file from the server.



TWS/WebAdmin user session initialization steps

Command submitted to TWS API (conman)

Preparing environment before calling the command.



Sample of the results

An overview about the system resources needed to process the request

The timestamps helps to analyze what part is causing possible slowdowns.


Audit Log• Allows to monitor all TWS operations made through

TWS/WebAdmin

• In opposite to Trace Logs one log for all activities

• Optional, enabled by default

• Supports rotation (“size driven”)

TWS/WebAdminAudit Log

TWS CLI

TWS/WebAdmin TWSPlan/Database

Data

User’srequest

writes the operation log record and submits them to TWS CLI


Audit Log

Audit Log sample. Every row of the log contains

• Timestamp• Authority• command


Trace Log vs. Audit Log

• Typical usage of trace log: A user thinks that something is displayed wrong. We ask him to reproduce the problem and ask for the trace log. Then we have all information that is needed to fix it.

• Typical usage of audit log: TWS administrators do not know why an operation is not working well for all users. We ask for the audit log to see if there is any mistake. If we do not find anything, then we ask for the trace log of an affected user...

Trace logs report actions of individual users, audit Trace logs report actions of individual users, audit

logs are reporting all of TWS/WebAdmin’s activitieslogs are reporting all of TWS/WebAdmin’s activities


User's Options

TWS/WebAdmin users have several options to customize the appearance of TWS/WebAdmin.

Here you can modify date format, color scheme, action buttons position and the browser title content.


User's Options

The customizable browser window (tab) title is useful in case of large TWS networks with several masters. The title can contain name of the user currently logged on, TWS master name, batchman status, etc.


User's Options

Action buttons anchorage allows to avoid often vertical scrolling at the bottom of the page in case of longer listings.


User's Options

Customizable layout allows to setup the output listings

Setup the order of the columns

Select what columns are to be displayed


User’s Options

Example: Plan jobstream list in customized layout


Administrator Level Customization

Customizable top bar and home page logo

Customizable top bar color can help to signalize the actual TWS environment, e.g. development or production

Customizable home page content: add links to other production services.


PAM authentication

• Switch TWS/WebAdmin to OS authentication

• Setup TWS/WebAdmin to use the OS sudo

PAM (PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) Pluggable Authentication Modules) allow to setup all type of allow to setup all type of

authentications including LDAP at the OS levelauthentications including LDAP at the OS level

TWS/WebAdmin interface

OS(ckpw, sudo)

TWSPlan/Database

Data

LDAP

Authentication and authorization requests from TWS/WebAdmin are processed at the central point of the operating system – reduces the amount of authentication setups


Any Questions about TWS/[email protected]


HORIZONTSoftware for Datacenters

Garmischer Str. 8 D- 80339 MünchenTel ++49(0)89 / 540 162 - 0www.horizont-it.com

TWS/WebAdmin DS

Many thanks for your attention!

The Web Interface to TWS

HORIZONT 1 TWS/WebAdmin Tips & Tricks HORIZONT Software for Datacenters Garmischer Str. 8 D- 80339...

Documents

Transcript of HORIZONT 1 TWS/WebAdmin Tips & Tricks HORIZONT Software for Datacenters Garmischer Str. 8 D- 80339...