The SessionLog Expert allows viewing of near time or current time sessions, i.e. sessions that are either currently live or have recently happened. The definition of recently is determined by the installation and is set in the parameters for the FTP or SMF exits. The records for these sessions are held in memory by the monitor executing on the MVS host. The data for the logs comes from exits provided by SMF. For further information on the determination of how many such records to hold, please refer to the Tivoli NetView Performance Monitor for TCP/IP Installation Guide.
The fact that the data is held in memory at the Host Monitor means that if you restart the Host Monitor, any data that it was saving in memory is lost. Also, if too much data is kept, the installation may find that the Host Monitor is using too much storage.
To view the session logs, click on the SessionLog tab and then select the log to be viewed by clicking the corresponding hyperlink under either the FTP or Telnet and API section:
Figure 64. SessionLog Main Screen
See also:
FTP SMF Log