NetView Management Console Overview

The NetView Management Console (NMC) of Tivoli for OS/390 V1R3 uses interactive graphics to display pictures, or views, that represent a network, a portion of a network, or a group of networks at various levels of detail. These views display the network resources that you are monitoring. When you monitor a network, resource status changes are reflected graphically in the views.

Possible Uses For The NMC

You can use the NMC to do the following:

  • Monitor and control large portions of complex networks and  systems.
  • View the topology and connectivity of your network graphically.
  • Monitor the overall state of a network or a portion of a network through aggregates, which represent the combined status of a group of related applications and resources.
  • Navigate easily from an aggregate to a real resource that is failing.
  • Mark resources for your own purposes; for example, to show that they are being serviced.
  • Display a list of events received for a selected resource.
  • Issue predefined commands from context menus, or use a command line to issue your own commands.
  • Stop and restart selected resources.
  • Specify which resources are critical to your network so that operators are notified when they are inactive.

 

How Does The NMC Work?

NetView's graphical console is a three tiered application consisting of a Java graphical client (topology console), a graphics server (topology server) and an OS/390 data cache.

The topology console graphically displays systems and networking information provided by Tivoli NetView for OS/390. This information is displayed as Resource Object Data Manager (RODM) based views and is only available if there is a conversation set up between the topology server and NetView.

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