IBM OMEGAMON for IMS on z/OS infrastructure

The OMEGAMON® for IMS on z/OS® product uses the IBM® Tivoli® Management Services infrastructure, which is also known as IBM Tivoli Monitoring, or Tivoli Monitoring Services. The Tivoli Management Services infrastructure is an agent-server-client architecture that provides security, data transfer and storage, notification mechanisms, user interface presentation, and communication services for products in the IBM Tivoli Monitoring and IBM OMEGAMON suites.

OMEGAMON monitoring agents can also perform the following tasks:
  • Issue commands to the system or application that you are monitoring
  • Compare the current values of monitored properties against a set of defined conditions, and trigger alerts or actions when those conditions occur
  • Accept and run the requested actions that are sent to the hub Tivoli Monitoring Server from Tivoli Enterprise Portal clients

Figure 1 illustrates the relationship between Tivoli Management Services components and monitoring agents.

Figure 1. Agent-server-client architecture
Illustration of the relationship between Tivoli Management Services components and monitoring agents
You can view the data provided by OMEGAMON for IMS on z/OS through various user interfaces.
  • Tivoli Enterprise Portal
  • OMEGAMON enhanced 3270 user interface
  • OMEGAMON for IMS (Classic 3270)

Not all Tivoli Management Services components are required to run OMEGAMON for IMS on z/OS. For example, you are not required to install Tivoli Enterprise Portal or Tivoli Enterprise Data Warehouse in your environment to run OMEGAMON for IMS on z/OS. If you enable self-describing agents, you do not need the Tivoli Enterprise Portal but you might need to install the Tivoli Enterprise Services User Interface Extension to provide more diagnostic information. If you do not intend to run the Tivoli Enterprise Portal, but you plan to use the OMEGAMON enhanced 3270 user interface with the self-describing agent disabled, you must seed the hub monitoring server by using the Managing Tivoli Services Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server Advance dialog. For more information, see the IBM OMEGAMON for IMS on z/OS: Planning and Configuration Guide.

For more information about the Tivoli Management Services components, see the OMEGAMON shared documentation Version 6.3.0 Fix Pack 2 and above.

Note: If you install OMEGAMON for IMS on z/OS into an existing environment, in which the components are already installed and at the required level, for example, if you installed another OMEGAMON for IMS on z/OS agent, you might delete the FMIDs for these components from the SMP/E installation jobs to avoid errors. For more information, see the IBM OMEGAMON on z/OS: Program Directory.