OMEGAMON product overview
The IBM® OMEGAMON® monitoring agents on z/OS® are a suite of products that you can run with the commonly shared components of Tivoli® Management Services.
These agents monitor and manage system and network applications to track the availability and performance of systems and resources in your enterprise. You can access the data collected by the agents using the following user interfaces:
- The OMEGAMON® enhanced 3270 user interface provides predefined workspaces that you can use to monitor the performance of the z/OS systems, applications, and devices in your environment.
- IBM Z® OMEGAMON Web UI uses Grafana dashboards to provide visualization and analysis of performance data gathered by OMEGAMON monitoring agents.
- The Tivoli Enterprise Portal user interface offers expert advice on alerts and corrective actions from one or more designated workstations.
This document describes the procedure for installing a monitoring agent on z/OS® for the following releases:
- IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS® 6.1
- IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for Db2 6.1
- IBM® OMEGAMON for IMS on z/OS 5.5
- IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for Networks 6.1
- IBM OMEGAMON for Messaging on z/OS 7.5
- IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for Storage 6.1
- IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for z/OS 6.1
- IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for JVM 6.1
You can also install the following OMEGAMON component releases:
- IBM Z OMEGAMON AI Insights 2.2
- IBM Z OMEGAMON Web UI 2.1
- IBM Z OMEGAMON Data Provider 1.1
If you are upgrading a monitoring agent and Tivoli® Management Services, see Upgrading in the OMEGAMON shared documentation. If you have not done so already, gather the information described in the Pre-installation requirements and checklist.
Product documentation is available in IBM Documentation. Always refer to the version of the documentation that is consistent with the version of the software that you have installed.