file trigger status when ESP is down?

[Michael Bieganski]

Hi,  next month we are upgrading our mainframe cpus and all lpars, and jobs/tasks running on them,  will be down for a quite a number of hours, including our ESP v11.4 mainframe edition.
We have quite a number of cybAgents on both wintel and unix that watch for file creations/updates on many of the distributed boxes (ie file monitors).

Question.  Assuming the cybAgents on the distributed boxes stay up the whole time,  what happens if say a file is created on a box while ESP is still down?  Would the notification of the files creation/update  simply queue up in one of the cybAgents log files and then eventually deliver an AFM to ESP once the mainframe (and ESP), is back up?  Or would the creation/update of any distributed file get trashed the time the ESP master is down?

thanks & regards,


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Mike B
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[Jonathan Calloway]

​In our experience, if the file watcher is an object that is a dependency in an app, than what you have described will happen.  However, if you have event level file triggers, those will often "break" and will need to be "repaired". 

At some point we created a mailbox for ourselves (i.e. loadnl) and added it to each of our event triggers so that we get emails if and when they "break".  All that you have to, essentially, is remove the lines with the failure message and F3 out so that they reload.

Hope this helps!

[Michael Bieganski]

Thanks Jonathan

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Mike B
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