Setting Up the MVS Alerts

Next you need to determine if any Alerts should be sent directly to the MVS system operators console when certain conditions occur. There are two types of Alerts that may be sent to the MVS operator’s console: performance (response time) and availability. Each Alert is started, stopped, or viewed from the Master Start/Stop MVS Alerting pull-down menu. Following is a brief description of each Alert:

Availability

An Alert to the MVS console may be sent if the address is not communicating with the host.

Performance

The response time threshold is for the customized test sent to collect response time data by the host Monitor.

Setting Availability Alerts immediately informs the Operations staff when a critical resource or other device is not responding. The IP address and the time are given for the non-responding device. Alerting may be set per address through the Master. Alerting occurs if the customized test sent to collect response time data by the host Monitor does not reach its destination.

With Performance Alerts, an Alert may be sent to the MVS console if the response time threshold is exceeded for a device. The response time threshold set is for the customized test sent to collect response time data by the host Monitor. A different threshold may be set per address.

To set the Alerts, complete the following steps:

1.      Click Performance/ Availability Alert from the Master tab. The Set Performance/Availability Alerts screen appears.

Figure 15. Set Performance / Availability Alerts

2.      Select Start Alerting and Performance or Availability, enter a response time threshold.

3.      From the table, select the address(es) for which you wish to set Alerts.

4.      Click Start/Stop Monitoring. The following message appears: Action successfully completed: Alert Start for (Performance/ Availability).

5.      Click on the Master tab to return to the Master Selections screen.

Note:   If you wish to monitor both performance and availability, you must first set the Alerts for one Alert, then repeat the process for the other.

When an Alert is triggered, the following MVS console message is displayed:

Availability Alert

AES902W IP=[IP Address] NOT RESPONDING TIME=[HH:MM:SS]

Performance Alert

AES901W IP=[IP Address] PK=[Packet Size] RT=[Response Time] TH=[Threshold] TIME=[HH:MM:SS] where PK=packet size in bytes, RT=response time in milliseconds, TH=threshold in milliseconds.

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