Using the WebSphere seed sensor for z/OS

Agile Service Manager does not support an operating system sensor for a z/OS® system. To discover WebSphere® resources on a z/OS system, the WebSphere sensor is enhanced to support discovery initiated from user-created seed files.

Because there is no z/OS system sensor, you must use the WebSphere Application Server seed utility for the z/OS DLA. This utility creates an XML seed file from a z/OS IdML book. This file contains information about the WebSphere resources that you are trying to discover on the z/OS system.

After this seed file is created, on the next discovery, the WebsphereIdmlSeedSensor looks for z/OS WebSphere seed files on the Agile Service Manager server. If there are, it parses that seed file and create a real discovery seed file that is used to kick off the WebSphere sensor. The WebSphere sensor then does a deeper discovery of WebSphere on this z/OS system.

To install and configure the WebSphere Application Server seed utility for the z/OS DLA, see the corresponding section.