cognos health check automation - help needed

[gettags]

Hello All,

I am here to request ideas on how to automate cognos health check.
In our organization, health check is done as below. We do it manually
1) Log into cognos to test the login.
2) Open IBM cognos Administration and fetch the below details about the activities.
Current :
Successful:
Failed:
Waiting
Cancelled:
Total :

3) Go to System tab and see if the services are running.
4) Test a couple of data sources (cant reveal the data source names sorry :(  ) and see if they are successful.
5) Making sure a couple of particular jobs are completed (cant name the jobs)
Since my team and I are not from scripting background, we are not sure how to prepare a script or something which can do a health check hourly once or once in three hours and shoot an email to us so that we can check if the system is up and running.
We are not only looking for a script in particular, we are open to suggestions if there are any settings in cognos which can do this.
When you write a solution, please also mention where to find the particular option (navigation) which could be of great help.
We run Cognos on Windows and we have 4 dispatchers, 2 cm's and 2 gws.
Thank you so much in advance,
Regs,
SriTeja J
gettags@gmail.com

[j33p2006]

HI,

BSP Software's MetaManager tool has a set of modules focused on Performance specifically checking the type of activities you are looking for. Check out http://www.bspsoftware.com/products/performance-solutions/

Regards
Gary