1. The Great Remote Control.
Ben Holmes
March 22, 2015

2. Introduction – Ben Holmes
Started Programming with Progress in 1989, version 4.2
Progress Consultant/DBA for over 12 years.
Worked at QAD as Technical Service Manager.
Worked at Eaton for just over 12 years.

3. Biggest little issues App Servers Tomcat Servers
Query File system size
Query a file (log)
Trim a log file
BI fills
Long running transactions
Test or QA DB server down

4. Notification
We have scripts running that will monitor these functions and us a notification when something bad is happening
OEM can also be used for this type of monitoring.

5. Reply to Email Each server has its own email address by user.
We use a special user for monitoring and control
We also validate the sending user of the to make sure we are hacked.

6. Control
Sending an to a special
We have a job that searches for all new s in the inbox.
The subject line must be formatted in a special way to allow any function to take place.
Again we validate the sending user against a control-table of addresses.

7. Functions we Control Bounce Qxetend app servers
Bounce .NETUI app servers
Bounce Tomcat Applications
BDF on filesystem
Start DB
Truncate BI
query-file – 1=full file name 2=option[cat]
run-file.manage – trims standard logs

8. How it all works Cron - Controls the email reader
Script dba_mail_actions reads all new s every 5 mins
/corp/scrp/qad/dba_mail_actions
Reads incoming mail
Checks for sender
Every thing is logged /corp/log/dba_mail_actions.log
Control files
Actions defined in /corp/config/sys/envfile: global: actions
Scripts/subroutines found in /corp/scrp/qad/mail_actions directory
Authorized USERS /corp/config/sys/ auth
global: actionauth: address:Employee#| address:Employee#

9. Live Demo and Questions?