Re: Dashboard type software for monitoring z/OS - Thank You

2011-08-29 Thread Miklos Szigetvari
Hi Just curious What do you expect to see in a monitoring dashboard ? As we are a small test shop, I have limited ideas, what would be important to see On 8/26/2011 9:30 AM, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote: To all, Many many THANKS to all who replied to me on this list and also offline. All

Re: Dashboard type software for monitoring z/OS - Thank You

2011-08-29 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Miklos Szigetvari wrote: Just curious All right. I'm glad you asked! :-D What do you expect to see in a monitoring dashboard ? You can look in the first posting of the original thread, but I repeat here something similar after having discussions with a lot of persons and looking at websites

Re: Dashboard type software for monitoring z/OS - Thank You

2011-08-26 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
To all, Many many THANKS to all who replied to me on this list and also offline. All and every answer were very useful and will be reviewed. Whew! This lists is terrific! Many thanks! :-) Again many thanks to all who kindly replied on this thread! All of you are 100% excellent! ;-D Groete /

Re: Dashboard type software for monitoring z/OS

2011-08-24 Thread Timothy Sipples
David Crayford asks: Are there any monitoring tools that can show the complete transaction life history through, for example, a zLinux WAS server into z/OS CICS/DB2/IMS etc. There seems to be a boundary where the two worlds are quite separate as far as instrumentation data. I attended to a CIM

Re: Dashboard type software for monitoring z/OS

2011-08-23 Thread Matan Cohen
I had an idea but I didn't perform\test it yet to perform a Monitor which is basically HTML page on you z/os HTTP server which is being update accordingly. On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 7:59 AM, Timothy Sipples timothy.sipp...@us.ibm.com wrote: Elardus Engelbrecht writes: It is meant to be used by

Re: Dashboard type software for monitoring z/OS

2011-08-23 Thread Scott Chapman
That's essentially what we did for the missing task list when we built our Mainframe performance dashboard. Most of the data comes off from the RMF Distributed Data Server, but for missing tasks, automation periodically runs through the list of active tasks and updates an XML file with what's

Re: Dashboard type software for monitoring z/OS

2011-08-23 Thread Itschak Mugzach
If you have Netview, Control-O or any other automation product, you can capture start and stop messages (IEF695I/$hasp395) and send it via ip to your desktop application. ITschak On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 2:10 PM, Scott Chapman sachap...@aep.com wrote: That's essentially what we did for the

Re: Dashboard type software for monitoring z/OS

2011-08-23 Thread David Crayford
Are there any monitoring tools that can show the complete transaction life history through, for example, a zLinux WAS server into z/OS CICS/DB2/IMS etc. There seems to be a boundary where the two worlds are quite separate as far as instrumentation data. I attended to a CIM session at SHARE and

Re: Dashboard type software for monitoring z/OS

2011-08-23 Thread Lim Ming Liang
CA Wily or IBM ITCAM may help. Regards Lim ML On 23/08/11 9:19 PM, David Crayford wrote: Are there any monitoring tools that can show the complete transaction life history through, for example, a zLinux WAS server into z/OS CICS/DB2/IMS etc. There seems to be a boundary where the two worlds

Dashboard type software for monitoring z/OS

2011-08-22 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Hi to all on IBM-MAIN! Do you perhaps know of something which could be used as a type of 'dashboard' system which is used to monitor running/not running of z/OS system(s) themselves, STCs, applications, networks, etc? It is meant to be used by management and call centre staff. Something like

Re: Dashboard type software for monitoring z/OS

2011-08-22 Thread Schneck.Glenn
Check out the ASG ( asg.com ) list of products for monitoring. Glenn -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Elardus Engelbrecht Sent: Mon 8/22/2011 10:16 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Dashboard type software for monitoring z/OS Hi to all on IBM-MAIN

Re: Dashboard type software for monitoring z/OS

2011-08-22 Thread Lizette Koehler
Hi to all on IBM-MAIN! Do you perhaps know of something which could be used as a type of 'dashboard' system which is used to monitor running/not running of z/OS system(s) themselves, STCs, applications, networks, etc? It is meant to be used by management and call centre staff.

Re: Dashboard type software for monitoring z/OS

2011-08-22 Thread Mark Post
On 8/22/2011 at 10:16 AM, Elardus Engelbrecht elardus.engelbre...@sita.co.za wrote: Any pointers, links, books, tutorial, open software, etc will be appreciated much! For open source stuff, check out http://www.xymon.org/ . It's entirely likely that you'll need to write one or more of

Re: Dashboard type software for monitoring z/OS

2011-08-22 Thread Timothy Sipples
Elardus Engelbrecht writes: It is meant to be used by management and call centre staff. and then writes this: Are these STC, JES2, TCP/IP, etc. hearts beating and running? Bear in mind management and call centre staff typically don't know what JES2 is. (A few do, but most don't.) So that part of