Step 4: Configure components and products on z/OS
If you have chosen to run your hub monitoring server on z/OS®, use Configuration Manager to set up your monitoring server.
As you create your hub monitoring server on z/OS, you also create the required runtime environments and the persistent data store.
If you have chosen to run your hub monitoring server on a distributed system, use Configuration Manager to set up other components on z/OS such as the monitoring agents. You must confirm the IP hostname of the distributed system where the hub monitoring server will be deployed on so that you can specify the value for the CT_CMSLIST parameters (for example the Kpp_TEMS_TCP_HOST parameters) of z/OS agents. This parameter establishes connections via enabled protocol between the z/OS agents and their primary TEMS and backup TEMS (if enabled) to report data to.
Initially, you might configure a new runtime environment to be stand-alone, with its own hub monitoring server. Later, you can integrate that runtime environment with the rest of your monitoring topology by converting its hub monitoring server to a remote monitoring server that communicates with a central hub.
As part of the same configuration process, Configuration Manager performs the configuration required for infrastructure components and each monitoring agent on z/OS.
Information sources:
- OMEGAMON® shared documentation: Configuring products and components on z/OS for instructions on configuring OMEGAMON products and their common framework components on z/OS.
- IBM Z Monitoring Configuration Manager: Creating your first, minimal runtime environment for the instructions on setting up a simple POC environment.
- IBM Z Monitoring Configuration Manager: Creating or updating a runtime environment for the configuration scenario that matches your requirements.
- IBM Z Monitoring Configuration Manager: Converting a hub monitoring server to a remote monitoring server for instructions on converting a hub monitoring server to a remote monitoring server that communicates with a central hub.