Understanding components

IBM® Z OMEGAMON AI for z/OS enables you to monitor and manage the performance and availability of individual z/OS systems, as well as the workload performance and resource utilization of the Parallel Sysplex. IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for z/OS is a member of the IBM Z Monitoring Suite.

IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for z/OS monitoring agents installed on monitored z/OS LPARs (logical partitions) provide comprehensive usage information for Sysplex-level resources such as coupling facilities, global enqueues, global resource serialization (GRS) ring systems, shared DASD groups, and cross-system coupling facilities (XCFs), as well as performance information for the service classes, report classes, and resource groups that use those resources.

IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for z/OS monitoring agents provide extensive system-level performance and usage information for individual z/OS images. In addition, they monitor the status and configuration of IBM cryptographic coprocessors installed in zSeries servers, provide data on UNIX System Services hosted on your z/OS systems, and allow system-level and sysplex-wide reporting of actual and potential special processor resource usage.

The data collected by the monitoring agents and alerts triggered by monitored conditions can be displayed in a graphical, Java-based interface, shared with other OMEGAMON and IBM Tivoli Monitoring products. In addition, IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for z/OS offers continued access to the OMEGAMON 3270 Classic interface, as well as the OMEGAMON enhanced 3270 user interface with specially-designed workspaces that can provide plex-wide and even cross-product data.

Used in conjunction with other OMEGAMON monitoring products, the data, analyses, and alerts presented by IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for z/OS help you develop a holistic view of your entire computing enterprise from a single console.