NetView Management Console Overview

The NetView Management Console (NMC) of Tivoli NetView for z/OS 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.

NMC consists of a server (called the topology server) and one or more Java-based consoles (called the topology console).

The topology server interacts with RODM and provides information to be displayed on the topology console. The topology server furnishes the topology console with a set of tasks that are applicable against a resource. These tasks appear in the context-sensitive menus on the console. The topology server also stores files on behalf of the topology console, including icons, backgrounds, help files, log files, customization views, and user settings. You must set up a conversation between the NMC topology server and NetView for z/OS using the NETCONV command.

The topology console graphically displays network information from the topology server. It displays systems and networking views. Colors indicate the status of each component and the entire network. As the server receives configuration and status updates pertaining to the network, it updates the console. This enables the topology console to display the real-time configuration of the network.