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Genesys Maintenance tasks
« on: October 06, 2011, 07:46:23 PM »
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Hi Guys, hope someone can provide some tipo about this topic.

The company i work for is interested in improving the operational processes like review the genesys services status for example. Currently it have an excel file where they log all the stuff. Its a checklist ...
Example: Review in CME,
Under app folder. TServer status  si up? 
Day 1: Yes.
Day 2: Yes.
Under host folder. Host TServerHost1 is up?
Day 1: Yes.
Day 2: Yes.
and so on .....

Well, what i am looking is a Genesys module that can help us with this redundant work. Maybe you can share your experiences facing these daily task.

Thanks for ur time,
JJ

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Re: Genesys Maintenance tasks
« Reply #1 on: October 07, 2011, 10:40:59 AM »
Hi,

A lot of this information can be obtained through custom code and the platform SDK (PSDK). I started to work on an automated test and system maintence suite using Cucumber. The idea was to write feature specifications for common maintenance tasks such as checking the state of solutions and applications as well as performing test calls etc. etc.

Details here ...

http://genesysguru.com/blog/blog/2011/07/22/genesys-business-driven-testing/

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Re: Genesys Maintenance tasks
« Reply #2 on: October 12, 2011, 01:46:45 PM »
or you can have a look at Spotlight by Blackchair

http://enterprise.alcatel-lucent.com/private/active_docs/EMG8218110604_Blackchair_WhitePaper_EN_HR.pdf

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Re: Genesys Maintenance tasks
« Reply #3 on: October 12, 2011, 04:09:31 PM »
What version of SCS are you using? SCS 8.x does provide a command line utility that you can use to query SCS about object status. If you are only interested in knowing if all applications are up and running, you can create a custom batch file to use that command line utility and write a log with the result.

Please refer to Management Layer user guide for details about such command line utility

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Re: Genesys Maintenance tasks
« Reply #4 on: October 13, 2011, 05:35:21 AM »
Thanks Allan,
Spotlight looks good when monitoring changes and status of current objects and applications.

Thanks fnunezsa,
I will review your recommendation. It seems useful.



Thanks a lot,
JJ


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Re: Genesys Maintenance tasks
« Reply #5 on: October 18, 2011, 05:16:42 PM »
Hi all,

Maybe you can help me by sharing your experiences in other clients.

I am looking for  tool (Genesys or other free tool)  that can store the uptime of a Genesys Host. For example, I have "T-Server_PriHost". And The client ask me for the uptime log of this server during October 1st.
Lets think that "T-Server_PriHost" had a maintenance restart or maybe an issue and it was unavailable by 1 hour.
So the uptime in this case would be calculated lets say in  this way: 100% - [1h/24h * 100]  => 96 %.

Any tools that can calculate this kind of information? Also if it can store this information d eb a great plus ...

Thanks,
JJ




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Re: Genesys Maintenance tasks
« Reply #6 on: October 18, 2011, 11:03:24 PM »
I have never heard of any Genesys tool that might help you in gathering that info. Assuming you're running Windows-based machines, maybe you can develope your own tool to access event viewer messages and calculate that from the details provided by the EventID 6013 which is something like "The system uptime is 3964648 seconds", or you can write a batch file to run the command "net statistics server" and read the line "Statistics since 9/2/2011 2:43 PM" which tells you when the server was started up for the last time.

Bottom line: I believe you'll have to get your hands dirty to achive this one  ;D

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Re: Genesys Maintenance tasks
« Reply #7 on: October 18, 2011, 11:10:09 PM »
Maybe something like spiceworks??? But that is for networks and honestly I think that is more a Server Admin task rather than Genesys (team) task...

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Re: Genesys Maintenance tasks
« Reply #8 on: October 19, 2011, 12:14:06 AM »
Hi Cav, i agree with you. However this client disagree with us ...  LOL.


BTW, have you worked with cacti or nagios? Are they usefull when working with Genesys?

Thanks,
JJ

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Re: Genesys Maintenance tasks
« Reply #9 on: October 19, 2011, 03:28:33 PM »
Well...
You must acknowledge that Genesys has nothing to do with the request. Period.

What they are asking is to monitor the hardware not Genesys...so yes, maybe Nagios can do the job too

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Re: Genesys Maintenance tasks
« Reply #10 on: October 23, 2011, 07:15:29 PM »
Newbie -

I agree with fnunezsa - you're going to have to get a little dirty on this one. But this might work ...

Assuming it's used, try analyzing events in the Log Database, and subtract the time between events from the total scheduled available time for the month.


Example:
Assume that there was a host failure that impacted the TServer on 09/15 for an hour. You should see Alarm or Standard log records showing
- Loss of connection to the host
- The Backup TServer (if it exists) entering Primary mode
- Loss of Connection to the TServer

When it restarts, you should see alarm or Standard log records showing
- TServer failure alarm cleared
- Primary TSErver entering Primary mode

You then subtract the one hour from the scheduled available time (For September, assume 24 hours * 30 days = 720 hours), so Uptime = (730 - 1) * 100%/730 = (729 * 100%)/730 = 99.86%


Example 2:
If there were NO TServer failures during the month, then there would be NO events during that time period , and uptime would be 100%.

You'll need to determine for yourself what constitutes a "failure" and what does not - for example, does a swtchover from Primary to Backup constitute a failure? It will also need to recognize that there can be more than one event that constitutes a failure or recovery - such as "CTI Link Failure", "Application is not able to provide service", etc.

Good luck.


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Re: Genesys Maintenance tasks
« Reply #11 on: May 24, 2013, 11:38:55 AM »
Check out http://www.auditgen.com/en/technical-audit
AuditGen offers you a report that tracks all application status changes (including cases whereby the process stops or the machine is restarted without using SCI). On top of that you can categorize every record to differentiate for example between planned and unplanned restarts etc.
If you browse the slides on the website you'll find more appealing features, so feel free to contact us under support@auditgen.com

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Re: Genesys Maintenance tasks
« Reply #12 on: May 24, 2013, 12:29:08 PM »
Do not SPAM GenUser, please :-)