How do you want the refreshes done - do you want REAL time updates or PERIODIC updates (check every XX mins) or UPDATES on CHANGE? Will you be including any SERVERs in this Dashboard?
I have heard mgt in various shops starting to ask for a single pane of glass to know how ALL of their systems are running. I am concerned on the amount of resources that might be consumed to do this. Any design will need to include performance issues with monitoring processes. Monitoring does not come cheap. You might want to look at updating a common dataset on each environment that the Automation Software can query and provide a panel for display. Or maybe a table in DB2 or Database in IMS might be effective. Lizette -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Anil Kumar Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2015 5:29 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Consolidated LPAR monitoring solution Hi All, I needed some expert advice by the group. Current situation: We have different regions and each one of them have their own products(1 - CA7 , CA OPSMVS , etc AND 2 - TWS , SA-ZOS , NETVIEW and so on so forth). Each of these regions have multiple LPARs and corresponding consoles. These consoles are monitored by the console monitoring team. Mainly the online (CICS, DB2 , IMS etc) and BATCH jobs are monitored by the monitoring team. Along with the STCs. If they are not in their expected state , then they would action them as per the instruction given by the respective teams (MVS systems team or Online CICS/DB2/IMS teams etc). What is needed : We would like to know if we can consolidate or have each of these LPARs talk to each other and provide a status in the form of a dashboard. For eg. => Region A has 4 LPARs – 2 DEV and 2 PROD and same set of tools. Is there a way that we can produce a dashboard (one consolidate view ) of any exception seen during monitoring with ONLINE , BATCH or STC. Green would represent all good , Red – would represent immediate monitoring team action etc. Region BATCH comments ONLINE comments STC comments Now Region B can have different set of tools for e.g. TWS , SA ZOS , Netview. Would like to have a similar dashboard as above Finally , we would like to merge each of these dashboards for each regions into 1 single consolidate view so that anyone can take a look into the dashboard and see the current status of the system. If there are any tools that can be used for the above purpose available from any vendor , please do share the information. If any of the shops had a similar situation and have a solution in place , kind request to please provide inputs. All your inputs would really be greatly appreciated. If you require any further information please do let me know so that I can provide the same. Thanks Anil. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
