Using the Master to Configure the Monitor

The Monitor collects workload statistics on the TCP/IP MVS transaction environment. It collects workload data on such factors as the number of clients, applications, and network traffic. In addition, the Monitors perform customized traffic tests, set up through the Master, to selected addresses in your network to obtain response time information once monitoring is set up and activated. Up to 1,200 critical resources are monitored by each Host Monitor. Critical resource is used here as a generic term that refers to a host, a client, a server, or any other remote device.

Once you have logged on and entered the User IDs, you are ready to configure the Host Monitors and the critical resources (devices) to be monitored. When the set up is complete, you can begin such tasks as viewing the TCP/IP transaction environment or performing real-time monitoring.

The Master module is used to manage and configure parameters for probing and monitoring network devices. It also controls user access to the application under NV4IP security options as well as for monitoring (addresses, frequencies, and packet sizes for the tests used to collect response time data for the monitored servers).

The following steps are an overview of what you need to do to use the Master to configure the Monitor. These steps will be covered in more detail in later sections:

1.      Set up the MVS TCP/IP addresses.

·        Viewing Host Definitions

·        Adding a Host Definition

2.      Set up the User IDs and Passwords for each MVS TCP/IP Host environment if NV4IP security is being utilized. (If you are using an SAF security package, the system programmer and SAF Administrator must have set it up during installation.)

3.      Set up the Critical Resource Definitions.

·        Viewing Resource Definitions

·        Adding a Resource Definition

4.      Start/Stop Monitoring

5.      Review the Monitoring Status

6.      Set up the MVS Alerts

7.      Start/Stop Alerts

Once the Monitor is running on the Host, you are ready to view your workload and response time data or monitor real-time performance/availability and perform command submission to control the MVS mainframe Monitor. For workload monitoring, you do not need to take any action from the Master.

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