SirFile Background File Monitor screen

The PF2 key from the SirFile main menu presents the background monitoring screen:

Background File Monitor screen

Using the Background File Monitor screen

Use this screen to control SirFile background monitoring, and to specify the actions taken when a file-full-pending condition is detected by a one-time or periodic refresh.

Warnings and predictions are treated separately. Entry fields are:

Default monitoring increment	Number of minutes the background SirFile task should wait between checking of files.
Send warnings to the journal?	Y or N. Specifying Y causes SirFile to send a user audit line (record type US) to the journal each time a warning condition is noticed for any file by the background task.
Warn	Warning frequency: 0, 1, or 2. 0 causes SirFile to not send warnings for threshold-exceeded conditions. 1 causes SirFile to warn users specified in the warn list the first time a condition is noticed for a file. 2 causes SirFile to send a warning to each user ID on the warn list each time the background monitoring task notices the condition. A sample warning message follows: MSG FROM USER 1 RKT.076: TABLE D percentage full has exceeded the threshold in: SIRLOCAL
Other users to receive warning messages	Specify a list of user IDs and/or thread numbers to receive a warning message by the background task. User IDs and numbers must be separated by blanks or commas.
Send predicts to the journal	Y or N. Specifying Y causes SirFile to send a user audit line (record type US) to the journal each time a prediction condition is noticed by the background task. A "prediction condition" occurs if a file is predicted to fill within the number of days of advance warning shown on the SirFile single file thresholds screen. Since predictions are based on a regression line, SirFile must detect incremental file growth in order to make a prediction.
Predict	Predict frequency: 0, 1, or 2. 0 causes SirFile to disregard predictions. 1 causes SirFile to warn users on the predict list the first time a prediction condition is noticed. 2 causes SirFile to send a warning to each user ID on the predict list each time the background task notices the condition.
Other users to receive predict messages	Specify a list of user IDs and/or thread numbers to receive prediction messages by the background task. User IDs and numbers must be separated by blanks or commas.

Command line options

The following commands work on this screen:

OPEN filename	Opens a file. As data can only be collected for files that SirFile already knows about or files that are currently open by any user, you may want to manually open a file before running a refresh, which guarantees the file is included in the sample.
CLOSE filename	Closes a file. Any file that you have open can be closed, except SIRFILE, SIRLOCAL, and CCASYS (the required application subsystem files for SirFile).

Function keys

These are the function keys for this screen:

PF1	Access full-screen help.
PF3	Return to previous screen.
PF5	Save the new background task specifications, and initialize the background task. If the background task is already running, you are notified. To make the background task accept the new settings, the sdaemon background user should be bumped and restarted.
PF9	Repeat the previous command-line command.
PF12	Save the new background task specifications.

See also

• SirFile
• SirFile main menu
• SirFile refresh process
• SirFile single file thresholds
• SirFile Background File Monitor screen‎
• SirFile file tables screen
• SirFile file detail screen
• SirFile messages screen