Solve communication problems using session activity

Viewing session activity, or actual work that occurs between the local system and adjacent systems allows you to view network attributes, mode, class-of-service (COS), and topology information. You might want to see information about the session activity for any of the following reasons:

• Activity occurs over the controller descriptions to adjacent systems
• When certain sessions are established over a connection that the operator did not expect
• The optimal route is no longer operating:

  To find another route for the session, you may need to know what location pairs are using for a particular connection. If you have to change the route for any session, you might need to vary off the controller description. Before varying off controller descriptions, you can do the following:

  • Determine whether any active sessions are using that connection (so you can notify the affected users of the upcoming outage)
  • Delay the varying off of the controller description

For more information about session activity, see Solve communication problems using WRKAPPNSTS.