Preparing to monitor resources

You can use CICSPlex® SM to monitor the resources in a CICSplex. The primary purpose of these resource monitoring facilities is to provide data to the real-time analysis component. As part of real-time analysis processing, monitor definitions are automatically created to support the types of analysis you request. The data is used by real-time analysis to evaluate the status of a resource. Data can be collected for any or all resource types.

You can request additional monitoring of specific resources in your CICSplex. However, be aware that resource monitoring is implemented by a periodic sampling process that can add significant overhead to your environment.

When resource monitoring is active, either because real-time analysis requires it or you requested it, you can use the WUI monitoring views to display the collected data. To access these views, open the Monitoring views menu by clicking on Monitoring views on the WUI main menu.