External monitoring

These statements and parameters specify the configuration options for IBM Z Workload Scheduler to work with Tivoli® Business Systems Manager and IBM® Tivoli Monitoring through the Tivoli Enterprise Portal component.

Table 1. Parameters related to integration with external monitors
Statement	Parameters	Description
ALERTS	INCIDENT	Defines the conditions under which the Z controller posts to a chat tool the incident specified in the `member_name` of the EQQINCID data set.
	MAIL	Defines the conditions under which the Z controller sends the email specified in the `member_name` of the EQQEMAIL data set.
	MONALERT	Defines the conditions under which a generic alert will be sent to IBM Tivoli Monitoring.
	MONOPER	This parameter determines whether the conditions specified by the MONALERT keyword will be in effect only for jobs that have the EXTERNAL MONITOR option set to YES, or for all jobs. It is used with IBM Tivoli Monitoring.
OPCOPTS	EXTMON	Specifies if Integration with Tivoli Business Systems Manager is enabled.
OPCOPTS	CODEPAGE	Specifies the host code page to be used for the data collected by the monitoring task
MONOPTS	MONHOSTNAME	Identifies the host name or IP address of the remote monitoring application. This parameter is used for the integration with the IBM Tivoli Monitoring product.
	MONPORT	Specifies the port number of the remote monitoring application. It is used for the integration with IBM Tivoli Monitoring.
	LOCHOSTNAME	Specifies the local host name or IP address that will be used to communicate with IBM Tivoli Monitoring.
	LOCPORT	Specifies the local port number used by the controller to communicate with IBM Tivoli Monitoring.
	BULKDISC	Defines if and how the bulk discovery is to be performed. This keyword is used for the integration with IBM Tivoli Monitoring.
	CONNTIMEOUT	Defines the connection establishment timeout to be used when communicating with IBM Tivoli Monitoring.
MONPOL	OPERATION	Specifies the types of operations that will be automatically selected for monitoring by IBM Tivoli Monitoring. It is also used to automatically set the EXTERNAL MONITOR job option of an operation to YES, when a specific event occurs.