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IBM Z Monitoring Suite is a suite of integrated offerings that provide real-time and historical monitoring and availability management of the z/OS infrastructure and key subsystems, such as CICS, IMS, Db2, WebSphere Application Server for z/OS, and MQ for z/OS.

Maintaining Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for your mainframe data center is critical to the business success of your organization. An efficient, integrated monitoring system can help ensure the availability, health, and efficiency of the IBM zSystems environment that forms the backbone of your business operation.

IBM Z Monitoring Suite includes a common user interface such as Tivoli Enterprise Portal (TEP) and OMEGAMON Enhanced 3270 user interface that helps you integrate information from the operating system, networks, and storage subsystems into a single workspace. This integrated capability provides in-depth analysis and composite alerts from multiple areas, enabling the identification of problems and their prompt resolution. By using this integrated management suite, you can foster greater communication and manage the z/OS platform more efficiently.

All the members of the IBM Z Monitoring Suite require Tivoli Management Services on z/OS at a minimum of version 6.3.0 Fix Pack 6.

IBM Z Monitoring Suite includes the following product components:

Tivoli Management Services on z/OS

OMEGAMON products use the Tivoli Management Services on z/OS infrastructure, which provides security, data transfer and storage, notification mechanisms, user interface presentation, and communication services for products in an agent/server/client architecture. The infrastructure includes the following key components:
  • Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server
  • OMEGAMON Web UI
  • The OMEGAMON Enhanced 3270 user interface
  • Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server and clients
  • OMEGAMON AI Insights
  • Monitoring agents

For details, see the following documentation:

IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for z/OS 6.1
OMEGAMON AI for z/OS provides detailed monitoring and problem management for IBM zSystems. By combining metrics data collected from components such as the IBM z/OS Resource Measurement Facility, Workload Manager, Coupling Facility, Cross System Coupling Facility, Global Enqueue, shared DASD, and USS workload, users can monitor and manage these key subsystems. It provides the visibility, usability, and performance required to make managing these environments and components more efficient and effective, thereby preventing or reducing downtime due to outages.
IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for Networks 6.1
OMEGAMON AI for Networks helps you to proactively monitor and manage the network performance of z/OS system resources and mission-critical applications. It senses poor or unstable network connections that hamper application performance and helps to pinpoint root causes to ensure high availability of services and improve user productivity. OMEGAMON AI for Networks enables the management of multiple IBM z/OS mainframe systems and network stacks from a single interface to improve user productivity and operational scalability.
IBM Z OMEGAMON Integration Monitor 5.6
OMEGAMON Integration Monitor displays performance information from a variety of sources, including OMEGAMON monitors and third-party software, in a single location. It delivers near real-time and historical information and the operating system and key subsystem performance. You can use a single-screen view of all situation alerts to rapidly identify the root cause of complex issues involving multiple subsystems. OMEGAMON Integration Monitor includes IBM Z OMEGAMON Data Provider:
  • IBM Z OMEGAMON Data Provider makes OMEGAMON attributes available to applications and analytics platforms outside of OMEGAMON. OMEGAMON attributes are the metrics that OMEGAMON monitoring agents collect about the performance, behavior, and resource usage of systems and applications on z/OS. IBM Z OMEGAMON Data Provider extends the existing OMEGAMON attribute collection process by introducing output methods that you can use in addition to, or instead of, the OMEGAMON persistent data store (PDS):
    • JSON Lines over TCP. Example use: ingestion by analytics platforms such as Splunk and the Elastic Stack.
    • Prometheus endpoint. Example use: Grafana dashboards.
    • JSON in Apache Kafka topics. Example use: any Kafka consumer.
    IBM Z OMEGAMON Data Provider publishes attributes as they are collected. The data frequency is determined by your choice of attribute collection interval, from 1 minute to 1 day. IBM Z OMEGAMON Data Provider currently supports attributes from only one monitoring agent, OMEGAMON AI for z/OS. However, IBM Z OMEGAMON Data Provider is designed to be extended to support other agents.

For more information on the capabilities, features, and benefits of OMEGAMON Data Provider, see OMEGAMON Data Provider documentation.

IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for JVM 6.1
IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for JVM 6.1 monitors the health of client vital Java™ virtual machines (JVMs) that run on z/OS operating systems. With OMEGAMON for JVM, you can quickly detect problems and take action in real time to increase the speed of problem resolution.
IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for Storage 6.1
IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for Storage 6.1 provides storage management and corrective action capability to prevent storage-related outages. Administrators are more efficient with intelligent alerts, targeted reporting, and linkages to related tools by using common interfaces and processes. IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for Storage 6.1 covers key hardware and software subsystems to maintain a healthy, efficient z/OS storage environment. Automated actions are based on comprehensive storage monitoring for z/OS I/O subsystem performance, space management and storage availability to help ensure optimal performance. Recently added capabilities use Zowe technology to deliver an enhanced storage administrator experience for real-time data set management.

Integration with IBM Z OMEGAMON AI Insights 2.1 allows users to leverage Machine Learning (ML) capabilities to build custom models on storage data streamed through IBM Z OMEGAMON Data Provider.

IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS 6.1
IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS 6.1 provides comprehensive visibility into application and system events of CICS transactions and CICS Transaction Gateway (TG) activities. Integrated with IBM Z OMEGAMON AI Insights 2.1, IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS 6.1 delivers actionable data, analyses, and alerts, enabling real-time monitoring and helping you proactively manage performance on your site's CICS and CICS TG environments. It allows you to drill down from a high-level overview to detailed transaction insights, ensuring quick problem detection and resolution.
IBM OMEGAMON for IMS on z/OS 5.5
IBM OMEGAMON for IMS on z/OS 5.5 is a performance monitor that provides subject matter experts, such as systems programmers, with the capability to manage IMS resources and workloads through integrated workspaces. These workspaces provide alerts to problem conditions, aid the user in determining the root-cause issue, and help in taking corrective action to minimize any costly impact to business-critical applications.
IBM OMEGAMON for Messaging on z/OS 7.5
IBM OMEGAMON for Messaging on z/OS 7.5 is a performance monitor that provides subject matter experts, such as systems programmers, with the capability to manage IBM MQ and IBM Integration Bus resources and workloads. It integrates with other offerings in the OMEGAMON portfolio to provide a powerful cross-subsystem problem determination toolset, helping subject matter experts manage and monitor their systems with ease.
IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for Db2 6.1
OMEGAMON AI for Db2 enables users to assess the efficiency of Db2 and optimize its performance, combining sophisticated response time tracking, reporting, monitoring, stored procedures, and buffer pool analysis features, as well as expert database analysis functions.
IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for Application Diagnostics on z/OS 7.1.x
IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for Application Diagnostics on z/OS 7.1.x provides deep diagnostic capabilities for JEE applications in three areas: operational monitoring, transaction analysis, and memory analysis. Each of these three areas provides a sharper focus on application performance problems.
IBM Z Automation Web Console 1.2.0
IBM Z Automation Web Console, previously known as IBM Service Management Unite, is a customizable dashboard interface that brings mainframe management information and tasks from disparate sources into a single environment. It gives system programmers, operators, and administrators a transparent view of system health status and allows for easy problem identification. The console enables operators to see monitoring alarm threshold events, called situations in OMEGAMON monitor, so that they can identify critical problems. Operators can quickly and confidently analyze, isolate, and diagnose problems by providing all relevant data in a single location. IBM Z Automation Web Console also enables operators to interact directly with the system by issuing commands and viewing results without going to a different console.
IBM Resource Measurement Facility
IBM Resource Measurement Facility (RMF) collects data and produces reports for activity in a sysplex. Among its other reports, it can use the data that is provided by z/OS Workload Manager to produce reports by service class and report class. IBM Resource Measurement Facility consists of many components. These include three monitor components (Monitor I, Monitor II, and Monitor III) that collect data from the sysplex and produce reports. Additionally, the Postprocessor component can produce reports by using IBM System Management Facility data from the three monitor components, as well as from other sources.
IBM Z ChatOps 1.1.5
IBM Z ChatOps provides ChatOps capabilities for your IBM Z environment. It includes a chatbot that gives users access to the information from Z systems management tools, such as IBM Z System Automation and IBM OMEGAMON, within popular collaboration platforms like Slack. IBM Z ChatOps can be used to notify the operations team in the chat tool about IBM Z events, including recommendations that are powered by machine learning, to help isolate and resolve problems quickly. IBM Z ChatOps leverages and integrates with IBM Service Management Unite for broad access to IBM Z operations data. This also enables chat users to drill down from the chatbot output to web-based dashboards with more information to help resolve problems fast.
IBM Discovery Library Adapter for z/OS
The IBM Discovery Library Adapter for z/OS detects and discovers active z/OS resources and their connections and relationships. The Discovery Library Adapter for z/OS creates XML files, also referred to as Books, that can be used to understand the environment or can be processed by products such as IBM Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager (TADDM), IBM Tivoli Business Service Manager (TBSM), and IBM Tivoli Change and Configuration Management Database (CCMDB), and IBM Z Resources Discovery Data Service (ZRD-DS).
IBM Z Resource Discovery Data Service 1.4.2
IBM Z Resource Discovery Data Service helps to manage resource data, formats, and provides the data via APIs for a more modern solution to retrieve z/OS data and store data that is discovered.
IBM Z Resource Discovery Visualization Service
The Visualization Service is a React UI component of IBM Z Resource Discovery, and can be embedded into a product UI to visualize data.
These programs are also available on an individual basis in addition to the IBM Z Monitoring Suite, except for:
  • IBM Z Automation Web Console 1.2.0
  • IBM Z OMEGAMON Integration Monitor 5.6