How OMEGAMON AI for CICS works

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OMEGAMON AI for CICS monitoring agents collect sysplex and LPAR-level performance data on z/OS® systems.

The data can be viewed through a graphical user interface called Tivoli Enterprise Portal. A subset of data can also be viewed through the OMEGAMON enhanced 3270 user interface.

The OMEGAMON AI for CICS product takes advantage of the Tivoli Management Services infrastructure. Tivoli Management Services components provide security, data transfer and storage, notification mechanisms, user interface presentation, and communication services for a number of products, including IBM Tivoli Monitoring and OMEGAMON® monitoring agents, in an agent-server-client architecture.

For more information on the Tivoli Management Services components, see the OMEGAMON shared documentation Version 6.3.0 Fix Pack 2.
Figure 1. Tivoli® Management Services
Tivoli Management Services
In the Tivoli Enterprise Portal, real time and historical data collected by OMEGAMON AI for CICS monitoring agents is displayed in tabular and graphic views in a set of predefined workspaces. A sample workspace is shown in Figure 2.
Figure 2. Sample OMEGAMON AI for CICS workspace
Sample workspace

When you open a workspace, Tivoli Enterprise Portal retrieves monitored data from the monitoring agents through the hub monitoring server and sends the results to the workspace. Chart and table views in the workspace use queries to specify what data the Tivoli Enterprise Portal requests.

The characteristics or properties of the logical and physical objects monitored by OMEGAMON AI for CICS (for example, the amount of virtual storage allocated to a task) are known as attributes. These attributes are used to define the queries that specify the data to be displayed in the workspaces.

With the proper user authority, you can tailor these views to display critical or warning indicators when monitored values reach specified thresholds, and to filter incoming data so you see only the information you are interested in at any given time. You can add additional views to existing workspaces or create your own workspaces and define your own queries using OMEGAMON on z/OS attributes.

Attributes are also used to describe situations, or conditions, that can trigger events. When situation events occur, event indicators are displayed in the Tivoli Enterprise Portal Navigator view. Situations can also trigger automated actions.

You can link from an event indicator in the Navigator Physical view to a situation event workspace that provides information about conditions prevailing at the time the event occurred and about current conditions, as well as expert advice on how to handle the situation. OMEGAMON AI for CICS provides a set of predefined situations that you can run to monitor a wide range of conditions. You can also create your own situations using the OMEGAMON AI for CICS attributes.