How OMEGAMON Data Provider extends OMEGAMON attribute collection

OMEGAMON® Data Provider extends OMEGAMON attribute collection by introducing a new runtime environment member, RKANPARU(KAYOPEN), that sets the destination of collected attributes: PDS, OMEGAMON Data Provider, both, or neither.

Figure 1. OMEGAMON runtime environment member RKANPARU(KAYOPEN) sets the destination of collected attributes
You can specify where monitoring agents send collected attributes: OMEGAMON Data Provider, PDS, both, or neither.

The prerequisite APAR level of the OMNIMON Base element extends the collection task of OMEGAMON monitoring agents to look for the runtime environment member RKANPARU(KAYOPEN).

If the member does not exist, then OMEGAMON Data Provider is dormant and the collection task stores attributes in the PDS only.

Otherwise, the member is a YAML document that sets the destinations of collected attributes: OMEGAMON Data Provider, PDS, both, or neither.

You can choose to continue storing attributes in the PDS while also sending attributes to OMEGAMON Data Provider, or you can choose to only send attributes to OMEGAMON Data Provider.

To pass attributes through to OMEGAMON Data Provider without storing them on disk in the PDS, you can specify OMEGAMON Data Provider as the only destination. Sending attributes only to OMEGAMON Data Provider is known as passthrough.

If you need to retrieve near-term historical data from the PDS, then you must specify PDS as a destination. For example, if you need to display near-term historical data in the OMEGAMON enhanced 3270 user interface (e3270UI) or the Tivoli® Enterprise Portal (TEP), then you must specify PDS as a destination.

OMEGAMON Data Provider publishes attributes as they are collected. The data frequency is determined by the collection interval. For example, suppose you have created a historical collection for an attribute group and set the collection interval to 1 minute. If you configure OMEGAMON Data Provider to send those attributes as JSON Lines over TCP, then the destination analytics platform receives data for that attribute group every minute.