OMEGAMON attribute collection
To understand how OMEGAMON® Data Provider extends OMEGAMON attribute collection, it's useful to understand how OMEGAMON attribute collection works before introducing OMEGAMON Data Provider.
The OMEGAMON family of products includes monitoring agents that collect performance, behavior, and resource usage metrics of systems and applications on z/OS®. In OMEGAMON, these metrics are known as attributes. Related attributes are organized into groups. Attribute groups are also known as tables.
To configure OMEGAMON attribute collection, you create historical collections. Each historical collection specifies an attribute group that you want to collect and a collection interval: a minimum of 1 minute to a maximum of 1 day.
To create historical collections, you use the OMEGAMON enhanced 3270 user interface (e3270UI) or the Tivoli® Enterprise Portal (TEP). For more information about creating historical collections, see the OMEGAMON documentation for e3270UI and TEP.
OMEGAMON stores recently collected attributes, also known as near-term historical data, in a set of files known as the persistent data store (PDS).