HORIZONT 1 TWS/WebAdmin Tips & Tricks HORIZONT Software for Datacenters Garmischer Str. 8 D München Tel ++49(0)89 / Web Interface to TWS TWS/WebAdmin DS Tips & Tricks TWS/WebAdmin DS

HORIZONT 2 TWS/WebAdmin Tips & Tricks 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

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

HORIZONT 4 TWS/WebAdmin Tips & Tricks 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

HORIZONT 5 TWS/WebAdmin Tips & Tricks Advanced Filtering Tips Wildcards are allowed in all filter pages… Scheduled time filtering – Specify a time range here...or use comfortable list boxes

HORIZONT 6 TWS/WebAdmin Tips & Tricks 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!

HORIZONT 7 TWS/WebAdmin Tips & Tricks 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 defined. All filters can be saved to the user profile to use them at a later time.

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

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

HORIZONT 10 TWS/WebAdmin Tips & Tricks Event “Job 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 usually Alerts defined for the “Job Long” event helps to warn administrators early to avoid production delays. The first event we have implemented is “Job Long” – It signalizes if a job is running too long

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

HORIZONT 12 TWS/WebAdmin Tips & Tricks Backup Administration TWS/WebAdmin backup manager allows to browse the history of TWS definitions modifications.

HORIZONT 13 TWS/WebAdmin Tips & Tricks Backup Administration filter to reduce the resulting list Integrated full text search function

HORIZONT 14 TWS/WebAdmin Tips & Tricks Backup Administration List of stored modifications matching the specified filter Click on the backup filename link to show the content

HORIZONT 15 TWS/WebAdmin Tips & Tricks Backup Administration Select entries and click on “compare” to display the differences

HORIZONT 16 TWS/WebAdmin Tips & Tricks Backup Files Compare Function Original (older) version at the left, new version at the right side Red text shows the difference in details

HORIZONT 17 TWS/WebAdmin Tips & Tricks 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 The new version of TWS/WebAdmin supports “Event Driven Workload Automation”

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

HORIZONT 19 TWS/WebAdmin Tips & Tricks Event Rule Design – Common Options Click “Next” to continue with the definition of the event conditions

HORIZONT 20 TWS/WebAdmin Tips & Tricks Event Rule Design - Conditions Click “Next” to continue to the definition of the event action Create the set of conditions dynamically Condition attributes corresponding to the actual “Condition type”

HORIZONT 21 TWS/WebAdmin Tips & Tricks Event Rule Design - Actions Dynamically create the set of actions to be taken Click “Save” to submit modifications Set of action attributes corresponding to the actual “Action type”

HORIZONT 22 TWS/WebAdmin Tips & Tricks Event Rule Source Definition Text Edit function: For many modifications it is still faster and easier to do in the source code

HORIZONT 23 TWS/WebAdmin Tips & Tricks Active Event Rules Monitoring Event rule name Event triggering condition, e.g. “Any Job that goes into ERROR” Event reaction, e.g. jobstream submission

HORIZONT 24 TWS/WebAdmin Tips & Tricks Action Runs Monitoring Action of this event was executed Action was “Submit jobstream” Direct link to the plan jobstream list to see the status of the executed jobstream

HORIZONT 25 TWS/WebAdmin Tips & Tricks TWS/WebAdmin Trace Logs The trace log reports what happens in background while a user executes a function through TWS/WebAdmin. Especially interesting: Low level calls and return values, e.g. TWS, SQL database, file system, authentication chains Enable/disable trace logs

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

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

HORIZONT 28 TWS/WebAdmin Tips & Tricks 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.

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

HORIZONT 30 TWS/WebAdmin Tips & Tricks Audit Log Audit Log sample. Every row of the log contains Timestamp Authority command

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

HORIZONT 32 TWS/WebAdmin Tips & Tricks 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.

HORIZONT 33 TWS/WebAdmin Tips & Tricks 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.

HORIZONT 34 TWS/WebAdmin Tips & Tricks User's Options Action buttons anchorage allows to avoid often vertical scrolling at the bottom of the page in case of longer listings.

HORIZONT 35 TWS/WebAdmin Tips & Tricks User's Options Customizable layout allows to setup the output listings Setup the order of the columns Select what columns are to be displayed

HORIZONT 36 TWS/WebAdmin Tips & Tricks User’s Options Example: Plan jobstream list in customized layout

HORIZONT 37 TWS/WebAdmin Tips & Tricks Administrator Level Customization Customizable top bar and home page logo Customizable top bar color can help to signalize the actual TWS environment, e.g. development or production Customizable home page content: add links to other production services.

HORIZONT 38 TWS/WebAdmin Tips & Tricks PAM authentication Switch TWS/WebAdmin to OS authentication Setup TWS/WebAdmin to use the OS sudo PAM ( Pluggable Authentication Modules) allow to setup all type of authentications including LDAP at the OS level 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

HORIZONT 39 TWS/WebAdmin Tips & Tricks Any Questions about TWS/WebAdmin?

HORIZONT 40 TWS/WebAdmin Tips & Tricks HORIZONT Software for Datacenters Garmischer Str. 8 D München Tel ++49(0)89 / TWS/WebAdmin DS Many thanks for your attention! The Web Interface to TWS