I am surmising you have accepted the IBM Direction for Omegamon of requiring an installation such as yours being running Linux on z or have a separate AIX platform to run the monitoring and reporting component.
Even though many of the products run standalone on z/OS today, I am told and continue to be told "ALL" the Omegamon products in the future will be upgraded to require either the zLinux or AIX for the monitor and reporting pieces. I still can not get IBM to explain why I would want to place such a dependency on my 99.999% z/OS systems on some z/VM + Linux or let alone an AIX system (which would need multiple ones). Then factor in DR planning into the equation. At least with the z/VM & Linux solution it all runs on the same z-Box and can be recovered as a whole. But then operationally if I have to take down the z/VM & Linux LPAR, then I will need another like LPAR take over. This sounds OK until you now have the monitoring data spread across 2 LPARS and you have lost the "one historical view" until you take steps to get it all back in one place. But then on one side I am told there is a 3270 Green screen just in case and then I hear whispers in my ear that I would not want to actually have to use it. But then maybe this is just the new 21st century way of thinking. If anyone has heard IBM changing their thinking, would definitely be interested. I indeed run the IBM IP Monitor (requiring zLinux) which I got N/C when NPM/IP V2 was a flaming disaster. Of course if you want an excuse for getting z/VM & zLinux, Omegamon provides the ammo. jim ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
