Using SA z/OS for Monitoring

As an operator, you can monitor and display information about the resources using the SA z/OS 3270-type interface. This interface provides monitoring capability for:

• Processor operations
• System operations via Status Display Facility (SDF), displaying status information (INGLIST) and detailed resource information (INGINFO and DISPINFO for the automation agent view)

You can also monitor messages and alerts. More information about this topic is given in How to Monitor Alerts on a NetView Console.

If SA z/OS has been configured properly, status mismatches between the actual and the monitored status should not occur. In the customization dialog, the automation administrator can specify a monitoring interval for every resource individually. If such an individual interval is not defined for a resource, every 59 minutes (which is the default, but the interval is user specifiable) SA z/OS will run a monitor routine to check the resources' status as known to SA z/OS versus its actual status. If the result indicates an error, its automation status will be updated.

In the customization dialog, the automation administrator can define either an individual monitor routine per application or a default monitor routine for a system that will monitor all applications running on that system. You can manually invoke an application's related monitor routine through the MONITOR command. You can use a wildcard for the applications (subsystems) that you want to be monitored, for example, use *abc* for all subsystems containing the string 'abc' in their names.