System Automation for SA/390

The SA/390 instrumentation provides a number of tasks and monitors to enable you to monitor the operation of SA/390 using APM.

Relationships show the message flow to SA/390, controlled by the NetView message automation table, and the flow of critical messages generated by SA/390.

Tasks

Tasks are provided that enable:

• Querying the state of SA/390
• Sending commands to SA/390 using a NetView console
• Enabling and disabling of automation processing
• Setting the interval between heartbeat events

Query State

Use this task to determine the state (UP or DOWN) of System Automation for OS/390.

Enable Automation

Use this task to enable automation processing of System Automation for OS/390. This task uses SETAUTO to enable SA/390 automation processing.

Disable Automation

Use this task to disable automation processing of System Automation for OS/390. This task uses SETAUTO to disable SA/390 automation processing.

Set Pulse

Select this task to modify the polling interval associated with the heartbeat monitor for System Automation for OS/390.

Monitors

The SA/390 instrumentation provides the following monitors. Each monitor supports the following tasks:

Set Threshold

Sets the conditions under which threshold events are sent.

Set Polling Interval

Sets the interval between which the current value of a monitor is checked against the thresholds established by Set Threshold

Query Value

Retrieves the current value of the monitor.

Query Threshold

Retrieves the current threshold severity level.

SA/390 CPU Consumption

The SA/390 CPU Consumption monitor (SA390_CPU) checks the percentage of available CPU time used by the NetView address space in which SA/390 executes.

SA/390 IO Rate

The SA/390 IO Rate monitor (SA390_IO) checks the number of IO operations per second initiated by the NetView address space in which SA/390 executes.

SA/390 SysOps Status

The SA/390 SysOps Status monitor (SA390_SysOps) checks whether the SysOps function of SA/390 is started as reflected in the AOFCOMPL variable.

The reported status can be UP, DOWN, or N/C (not configured).

SA/390 IoOps Status

The SA/390 IoOps Status monitor (SA390_IoOps) checks whether the IoOps support of SA/390 is functioning as reflected in the D HOSTS command.

The reported status can be UP, DOWN, or N/C (not configured).

SA/390 ProcOps Status

The SA/390 ProcOps Status monitor (SA390_ProcOps) checks whether the ProcOps support of SA/390 is functioning as reflected in the ISQCHK command. Monitoring is active only when samon is started with the -po option.

The reported status can be UP, DOWN, or N/C (not configured).

SA/390 PPI Status

The SA/390 PPI status monitor (SA390_PPI) checks whether a particular PPI receiver is functioning as reflected by the DISPPI command. Monitoring is only active when samon is started with the -pi option, where is the receiver to be monitored.

The reported status can be UP, DOWN, or N/C (not configured).

SA/390 RODM Status

The SA/390 RODM Status monitor (SA390_RODM) checks whether the RODM support for SA/390 is functioning as reflected in the AOFRODMOK variable.

The reported status can be UP, DOWN, or N/C (not configured).

SA/390 Messages Received

The SA/390 Messages Received Relation monitor (OS390_Messages_Received) reports the number of OS/390 messages per minute processed by SA/390 as defined in the message automation table.

SA/390 Messages Sent

The SA/390 Messages Sent Relation monitor (SA390_Messages_Sent) reports the number of critical messages per minute generated by SA/390. This number equals the number of messages forwarded by the T/EC notification by SA/MVS SPE of SA/390.

Query Monitor Value

Select this task to query the current value of the monitor defined for System Automation for OS/390.

Query Monitor Threshold Level

Select this task to query the current threshold value of the monitor defined for System Automation for OS/390.