SSM not preserved after an IPL

Products

• OPS/MVS Event Management & Automation

Issue/Introduction

SSM was in Passive mode before the IPL and Inactive after because it could not find the SSMBEGIN rule.

Message at startup:

OPS7910W STATEMAN REQUEST RULE SSMBEGIN NOT FOUND. NO ACTION TAKEN

Environment

Release : 13.5

Component : OPS/MVS

Resolution

The rule SSMBEGIN must be set as auto-enable so that it will be automatically enabled at OPS startup.
Other rules are also required to be auto-enabled. From OPS documentation:

 

SSM Policy Manager requires that you install the following AOF rules from your 

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.CCLXRULM library. You enable and auto-enable all rules in this list, except SSMBEGUX, SSMSHUTM, and SSMSTAUX:

• SSMBEGIN
• SSMBEGUX
• SSMCMDS
• SSMCNTL
• SSMNOTFY
• SSMRSTRT
• SSMSHUTM
• SSMSTART
• SSMSTATE
• SSMSTAUX
• SSMSTOP
• SSMTMOUT