Viewing the active sysplex and its status
HCM knows the systems of the active sysplex (that is, the sysplex on which HCD is running) and associates them with partitions and processors (for basic mode). Because of this, partitions and basic mode processors can be labelled with their associated system name in the configuration diagram according to the Operations Preferences you have selected.
To display all the objects of the active sysplex, use the filter option in the View menu and select the Active sysplex checkbox. The resulting diagram will consist of the desired systems and their objects.
To see the status of the objects in the sysplex, use the menu item Status under the Operations, Refresh menu items. HCM now retrieves the status information via I/O Operations and shows it on the diagram in various colors having different meanings which can be defined in the Color dialog (see Color dialog).
Detailed information for a selected object can be obtained by clicking on the object with the right mouse button and selecting Status in the upcoming context menu.
If you do this for a Processor or Partition object, the following dialog appears.
The dialog shown in Figure 2 appears if you choose Status… from the context menu for a string or a controller with integrated devices.
As an alternative to the context menus, you can obtain the same information by selecting the Status button in the various Edit Object dialogs or dialogs that show lists of IODF objects, such as the Partitions dialog or the I/O Device List dialog. If you are showing the status on the Configuration diagram (see the documentation on the Refresh, Status menu option below, and you return to the diagram after having obtained status information for an individual object, you will notice that a + sign will appear to the right of the time stamp in the status bar at the bottom of the screen. This indicates that the status of one or more objects in the diagram is more recent than the indicated time of the last refresh.
In addition to the above, there are some special menu items for viewing your configuration or invoking dialogs that are of particular significance in connection with the I/O Operations tasks. Most of these are to be found under the main menu item Operations and are explained below.