Setting trace levels dynamically from the IBM Tivoli Monitoring Service Console

You can use the IBM® Tivoli® Monitoring Service Console to set trace levels for monitoring agents on z/OS®, as well as for a Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server on z/OS or for distributed components. Using the service console, you can read logs and turn on traces for remote product diagnostics and configuration. If you use the Service Console, you can change trace levels without recycling the monitoring server or other components.

The Service Console is uniquely identified by its service point name. All Service Consoles for a host are linked and presented on the IBM Tivoli Monitoring Service Index for that host. You can perform operations on a specific component process by selecting the service console associated with the service point name of the component.

Note: Enabling tracing may cause large amounts of trace data and degrade performance, so only turn on tracing for the minimal amount of time as required to do problem determination.