Analyzing messages with a symptom catalog
HCL Workload Automation messages in the log file contain just the message text. To store more information about a message, or to document a course of action in respect of that message, you can create a symptom catalog, recording information in the catalog for any message that could appear in the log.
The symptom catalog is in the form of an xml file. The dtd of the xml file is simple, and can be determined by looking at the symptom catalog supplied with HCL Workload Automation.
This symptom catalog contains the message help information
(explanation, system action, and operator response) for all of the
messages that are logged in the HCL Workload Automation logs
(from the Maestro, Unison, Netman, Cluster,
and Altinst catalogs). To determine which messages these are,
look at the beginning of each message set described in IBM® Workload Automation:
Messages and Codes – those belonging to the above-mentioned
catalogs are indicated. This information is available in English,
only. You can use this catalog as it is, modify the catalog, adding
information pertinent to your enterprise, or create your own catalog,
based on the structure of the example. Log Analyzer supports the contemporaneous
presence of more than one catalog, though a message can be analyzed
by only one catalog at a time.
Note: Not included are those messages
logged in the log files of the application server.
The following sections describe how: