User Workstation Operation

NV4IP provides both real-time and historical reporting capabilities to assist in the determination of workload throughput, capacity planning, trending, and network performance. It has three major areas: the Master for administration, the Performance Manager for historical reporting, and the Operations Manager for real-time reporting.

The Master application determines who gets monitored and how frequently. It is recommended that one Master application be set up per installation. The Master performs all configuration and administrative tasks. It is used to add, change, or delete the configuration data used by any Monitor on any mainframe and authorizes the users who may access that information.

The Manager applications perform data reporting, analysis, real-time monitoring, and command submission for any Monitor on any mainframe. Access to NV4IP functions is controlled through User IDs, which provide functional authorization to the modules. Regardless of the user’s access privileges, the home base is SysPoint and its accompanying functions: LinkView, Connect Expert, and Alerts.

The Performance Manager is used to view the historical TCP/IP network performance from the enterprise level to the remote user connection. Performance indicators for workload and response time are reported in various granularities: by time, by host, or by application. The Performance Manager uses charts with toolbars and zoom functions for easy manipulation of the data.

The Operations Manager is used to monitor, in real time, network performance, resource availability, buffer pools, Telnet, FTP, user defined applications, or CPU usage. Network performance or operations personnel may use the expert assisted interface or unassisted mode to enter commands to control the Monitor mainframe.

 

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