Overview

IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for Storage is a comprehensive monitor for z/OS® I/O subsystem performance and storage availability. This monitoring agent runs in a z/OS environment.

With IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for Storage, you can anticipate storage-related performance, availability, and space problems and get warnings when critical events take place in your systems. The product assists you in monitoring, analyzing, and managing I/O subsystems and storage devices, including the interaction of those resources with other software applications. Specifically, you use IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for Storage to manage the performance and availability of mainframe attached storage including disk, tape devices, and virtual tape devices and the datasets that are located on them.

With OMEGAMON® for Storage, you can set threshold levels to alert you when the conditions reach critical points. The OMEGAMON for Storage monitoring agent uses the IBM® Tivoli® Management Services infrastructure, which consists of a set of components that are common to all the products in the Tivoli OMEGAMON XE product suite. Some components of the infrastructure, such as the Tivoli Enterprise Portal must run on systems other than z/OS, such as Windows, Linux, or UNIX-based systems, also called distributed systems. The Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server can run on either a distributed or a z/OS system.

The product combines comprehensive storage performance monitoring with a flexible, easy-to-use browser interface that helps you clearly understand storage conditions and ensure optimal performance. It also supports for virtual tape subsystems that includes integration and compatibility with Generation 2 of the VTS (Virtualization Engine device model TS7700) and its new architecture for collecting and presenting performance and availability metrics.

The product also features in-depth analysis of the following three key components of IBM storage software:
  • Data Facility Systems Managed Storage (DFSMS), which manages the service levels and priorities of datasets, based on user created storage goals.
  • Data Facility Hierarchical Storage Manager (DFSMShsm), which provides functions for backing up and recovering data, and managing space on volumes in the storage hierarchy.
  • Data Facility Removable Media Manager (DFSMSrmm), which is a functional component of, and shipped as part of, DFSMS. DFSMSrmm manages removable media resources for the z/OS environment, including automatic libraries like the IBM Virtual Tape Server.

The features of IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for Storage include the ability to perform trending and other historical analysis, and the ability to monitor user-created groups of volumes.