Monitoring Execution of ODI packages

Question

In order to automate the monitoring of the OID pacakges, our monitoring tool (PATROL) can read txt files and when a specific key word is entered, trigger an alert.
The file should be empty if package runs successfully and whenever a package fails a keyword should be written to it (overwritting whatever was there before).
File location could be anywhere,that would not be a problem.
How it can be achieved ?

Answer 1

Hi,
There are a number of ways to do this, have a look at this blog post on how to write out errors to a file from ODI :
http://odiexperts.com/error-records-log
Now the example above is reporting data validation errors from the SNP_CHECK_TAB, if you want runtime errors from a scneario then you can get the error from a previous step in a package using the API :
<%=odiRef.getPrevStepLog("MESSAGE")%>
You could also use the oditool ODIFileAppend to open/overwrite/ populate a file with the error using the API method I've mentioned above. Check the API Substitution guide and ODITools guide for more info.
Regards,
Alastair