1. HORIZONT TWS/WebAdmin DS TWS/WebAdmin DS Tips & Tricks
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TWS/WebAdmin DS
Tips & Tricks
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2. 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

3. Advanced Filtering Tips
We recommended switching to the “filter selection” mode.
Using filters avoids performance problems of TWS/WebAdmin and TWS!

4. Advanced Filtering Tips
Unfiltered data may cause problems even if paging is available
The shortcuts to the filter pages make it easy to apply filters

5. Advanced Filtering Tips
Wildcards are allowed in all filter pages…
...or use easy to use list boxes
Scheduled time filtering – Specify a time range here

6. Scheduled Time Filtering
Scheduled 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!

7. Advanced Filtering Tips
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 be defined.
All filters can be saved to the user profile to use at a later time.

8. Advanced Filtering Tips
Use this option to add filters to browser’s own bookmarks
Click on the bookmarked link to go get the appropriate listing directly.
Example: Show today’s abends

9. TWS/WebAdmin’s Event Tracker
Allows to react on events that are not supported by TWS
TWS/WebAdmin’s Event Tracker writes its events to standard TWS events log, as a result standard procedures like alert triggering are supported automatically
TWS/WebAdmin
Event Tracker
TWS Batchman
TWS
Plan/Database
Data
Global
Events Log
Event Collector
Standard event types provider
New event types

10. Event “Job Long”
The first event we have implemented is “Job Long” – It signals if a job is running for too 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 usual
Alerts defined for the “Job Long” event help to warn administrators early to avoid production delays.

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

12. Backup Administration
TWS/WebAdmin backup manager allows you to browse the history of TWS definitions modifications.

13. Backup Administration
filter to reduce the resulting list
Integrated full text search function

14. Backup Administration
List of stored modifications matching the specified filter
Click on the backup filename link to show the content

15. Backup Administration
Select entries and click on “compare” to display the differences

16. Backup Files Compare Function
Original (older) version at the left, new version at the right side
Red text shows the difference in detail

17. Event Driven Workload Automation
The new version of TWS/WebAdmin supports “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

18. Event Rules Administration
Click on the event rule name to display details…
Event rules in the main menu
…or select a rule and click on e.g. “modify”

19. Event Rule Design – Common Options
Click “Next” to continue with the definition of the event conditions

20. Event Rule Design - Conditions
Condition attributes corresponding to the actual “Condition type”
Create the set of conditions dynamically
Click “Next” to continue to the definition of the event action

21. Event Rule Design - Actions
Set of action attributes corresponding to the actual “Action type”
Dynamically create the set of actions to be taken
Click “Save” to submit modifications

22. Event Rule Source Definition
Text Edit function: For many modifications it is still faster and easier to do in the source code

23. Active Event Rules Monitoring
Event rule name
Event triggering condition, e.g. “Any Job that goes into ERROR”
Event reaction, e.g. jobstream submission

24. Action Runs Monitoring
Action was “Submit jobstream”
Action of this event was executed
Direct link to the plan jobstream list to see the status of the executed jobstream

25. TWS/WebAdmin Trace Logs
The trace log reports what happens in the background while a user executes a function through TWS/WebAdmin.
This can be especially interesting for: Low level calls and return values, e.g. TWS, SQL database, file system, authentication chains
Enable/disable trace logs

26. TWS/WebAdmin Trace Logs
1) Execute the request
2) Download the trace log file from the server.

27. TWS/WebAdmin Trace Logs
TWS/WebAdmin user session initialization steps
Preparing environment before calling the command.
Command submitted to TWS API (conman)

28. TWS/WebAdmin Trace Logs
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.

29. Audit Log
Allows you to monitor all TWS operations made through TWS/WebAdmin
Different to Trace Logs - only one log for all activities
Optional, enabled by default
Supports rotation (“size driven”)
TWS/WebAdmin
Audit Log
TWS
CLI
Plan/Database
Data
User’s
request
writes the operation log record and submits them to TWS CLI

30. Audit Log Audit Log sample. Every row of the log contains Timestamp
Authority
command

31. Trace Log vs. Audit Log
Trace logs report actions of individual users, audit logs are reporting all of TWS/WebAdmin’s activities
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...

32. 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.

33. 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.

34. User's Options
Customizable layout allows you to setup the output listings
Setup the order of the columns
Select what columns are to be displayed

35. User’s Options
Example: Plan jobstream list in customized layout

36. Administrator Level Customization
Customizable top bar color can help to signal the actual TWS environment, e.g. development or production
Customizable top bar and home page logo
Customizable home page content: add links to other production services.

37. PAM authentication
PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) allows the setup of all types of authentication including LDAP at the OS level
Switch TWS/WebAdmin to OS authentication
Setup TWS/WebAdmin to use the OS sudo
TWS/WebAdmin
interface OS
(ckpw, sudo)
TWS
Plan/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

38. Any Questions about TWS/WebAdmin?

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