SMF data
This reference lists the configuration values that you can update for collecting SMF data.
Global Setting
- SMF data types
- You can define which SMF types to collect in the
Global Setting
window. The supported SMF type scope is 0-2047. You can indicate a range of data types using a colon or separate individual types using a comma. These values are defined for all LPAR gathers. - Save file threshold
- In the
Global Setting
window, you can update the size of the staging file used to save unsent data when Kafka is down. The size of the staging file is measured in megabytes and should be smaller than the available space under the $CDPWORK path. Currently, the parameter saveFileThreshold only applies to SMF, SYSLOG, and OPERLOG data. The default value is 500 (megabytes).
Data Resource Setting
- Data source
- The data source that you want to collect in the
Add/Edit data resource
window. In this case, select SMF. - Resource Type
- You can define the resource type in the
Add/Edit data resource
window. SMF data is collected by different resource gathers. Three supported resource gathers for SMF are EXIT, LOGSTREAM, or INMEM. - Resource Name
- You can define the resource name in the
Add/Edit data resource
window. The format should be x.y.z and must only be set when the resource type is LOGSTREAM or INMEM. - Data Type
- You can define which types of SMF data to collect in the
Add/Edit data resource
window. The supported SMF type scope is 0-2047. You can indicate a range of data types using a colon or separate individual types using a comma. This value is set at the system level. You can use the same SMF data types as those in the global setting, or set other data types to override the SMF data types in the global setting. - Topic Name
- You can define the topic name for SMF data in the
Configure topic name and topic name group
window. The default value is IBM-CDP-zOS-SMF-{plexName}-{sourceType}, of which, plexName will be parsed to sysplex name, and sourceType will be parsed to SMF integer type. The topic name applies to all SMF data resources in the same system. - Topic Name Group Settings for SMF Data
- You can define the topic group for SMF data in the
Config topic name and topic name group
window. This enables multiple SMF data types to be sent to a single topic so SMF data can be collected in sequence. In this section, there are two parameters that need to be set.