Introduction and Overview

The processor hardware interfaces provide the automation and operation base to monitor and control IBM Z mainframe processor hardware with the System Automation product. The two interfaces are listed as follows:

Processor Operations

Processor Operations is based on TCP/IP and SNMP protocols. Processor Operations runs hardware commands and receives hardware events from the supported mainframes. Instead of using TCP/IP and SNMP, communication can also be redirected by using the Base Control Program internal interface (BCPii) which is not dependent on external network protocols.

INTERNAL connection path

As the identifier 'internal' indicates, this connection path uses a connection protocol that is provided by z/OS, called Base Control Program internal interface (BCPii).