NetView Functions
The following table contains some of the NetView® functions with information on how they benefit you and where more information can be found.
| NetView Function | Benefit to You | Where Documented in NetView Library |
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| Application programming | Tailor or supplement NetView to satisfy unique requirements or operating procedures. Command procedures can be written in PL/I, C, assembler, REXX, or NetView CLIST languages. Installation exits can be written in PL/I, C, or assembler. |
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| Automated operation for networks (AON) | Provides automation for TCP/IP, VTAM®, and SNA using NetView AON automation policy | IBM Z NetView User's Guide: Automated Operations Network |
| Browse facility 1 | View logs, data sets, and files on either a local or remote NetView | IBM Z NetView User's Guide: NetView |
| Canzlog log | Provides consolidated access to all IBM Z® NetView system messages (including the netlog and syslog). The Canzlog log includes expanded access to message attributes and robust filtering to retrieve specific log records. By using the Canzlog function, you can significantly reduce problem determination time. You can archive the Canzlog log for later recall, as needed for audit or further problem analysis. |
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| Canzlog Print |
By issuing the PRINT command, you can print the specified Canzlog messages to a sequential data set or a member of a partitioned or partitioned extended data set. It can be issued from one of the following ways:
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| CNMSTYLE migration tool | Converts previous releases of CNME1034 command list and DSIPARM initialization members to the CNMSTYLE member format. This tool also converts your DSICMD definitions to the CNMCMD member format. | IBM Z NetView Installation: Migration Guide |
| CNMSTYLE report generator | Creates a report that
provides information on the CNMSTYLE member. The report
includes the following information:
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Using the Report Generator |
| Command facility 1 | Provides basic command support for the NetView product; lets you issue VTAM, MVS™, and NetView commands from the NetView command line. | IBM Z NetView User's Guide: NetView |
| Command Statistics | Provides usage statistics for each invocation of a command that runs in the NetView address space. | IBM Z NetView Installation: Configuring Additional Components |
| Discovery manager | Collects sysplex, z/OS® image, TCP/IP stack, IP interface, OSA, HiperSockets, NetView program, and Telnet server data for display in the NetView management console and the NetView agent. Provides real-time 3270 TCP/IP stack, IP interface, Telnet server, OSA, HiperSockets, and NetView application commands. | IBM Z NetView Installation: Configuring Additional Components |
| DVIPA support | Collects dynamic virtual IP address (DVIPA) data for display in the NetView agent. Provides real-time 3270 DVIPA commands. | IBM Z NetView Installation: Configuring Additional Components |
| Event/Automation Service (E/AS) | Serves as a gateway for event data between the IBM Z NetView management environment, managers and agents that handle Event Integration Facility (EIF) events, and SNMP trap managers and agents. With this gateway function, you can manage all network events from the management platform of your choice. |
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| Extended multiple console support (EMCS) consoles | Provides a consistent MVS operation interface, an alternative to the subsystem interface (SSI) | IBM Z NetView Automation Guide |
| Graphic monitor facility host subsystem (GMFHS) | Interfaces with RODM for the various components of NetView (NetView management console and NetView resource manager) to manage the resources in your environment | IBM Z NetView Installation: Configuring Graphical Components |
| Hardware monitor | Collects and stores data about failed resources in networks |
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| Help facility 1 | Provides online help for messages and commands | IBM Z NetView User's Guide: NetView |
| Help desk facility 1 | Provides online help for diagnosing problems | IBM Z NetView User's Guide: NetView |
| Intrusion detection services | Defines automated
responses to the following items:
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IBM Z NetView Installation: Configuring Additional Components |
| IP management | Supports management of heterogeneous networks that use both SNA and TCP/IP. NetView IP management capabilities include discovery, connection monitoring, packet collection and analysis, and DVIPA management. | IBM Z NetView Installation: Configuring Additional Components |
| Message revision table | The message revision table (MRT) enables you to intercept MVS messages before they are displayed, logged, automated, or routed through your sysplex. You can make decisions about the message based on its message ID, job name, and many other properties. | IBM Z NetView Automation Guide |
| NetView automation | Perform repetitive or routine tasks without operator action | IBM Z NetView Automation Guide |
| NetView management console | Displays topology and status information about network and system resources in a graphical format, from any platform enabled by Java™ | IBM Z NetView Installation: Configuring Graphical Components |
| NetView MVS command revision table | The NetView MVS command revision table (CRT) enables you to intercept MVS commands before they are processed. Command sources include the MVS console and the NetView MVS command. | IBM Z NetView Automation Guide |
| NetView Resource Manager | Used to graphically monitor and manage NetView task resource utilization and status using the NetView management console. You can monitor all NetView programs in your enterprise using one NetView management console. | IBM Z NetView Installation: Configuring Graphical Components |
| REST Server | Externalize NetView functions through Restful APIs. Provides users the capabilities to access NetView from anywhere that can make REST request. This helps facilitates the creation of web applications. |
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| IBM Z NetView Enterprise Management Agent | Used to manage both TCP/IP availability and performance data from a single user interface. The NetView program provides TCP/IP availability data and OMEGAMON® for Networks provides TCP/IP performance data. You can also monitor the health of your NetView system including processor utilization, storage, message queue count, input and output message rates, and input and output rates. | IBM Z NetView Installation: Configuring the NetView Enterprise Management Agent |
| Packet trace data | The NetView program provides real-time capture and formatting of IP packet and OSA packet trace data, including both headers and payloads. | IBM Z NetView IP Management |
| Program-to-Program Interface (PPI) | Enables user programs to send or receive data buffers from other user programs; also allows system and application programs to send alerts to the hardware monitor | IBM Z NetView Application Programmer's Guide |
| Remote operations | Interact with remote SNA systems without the overhead of cross-domain logons. (The receiver can be an unattended system.) | RMTCMD in the IBM Z NetView Command Reference Volume 2 (O-Z) |
| Resource Object Data Manager (RODM) | Provides a central location for storing, retrieving, and managing operational resource information |
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| Save and restore function | Saves timers, global variables, and focal point information to VSAM and then restores this data when the NetView program is restarted | IBM Z NetView Installation: Configuring Additional Components |
| Session monitor | Collects and stores data about SNA resources in subarea, Advanced Peer-to-Peer Networking, and mixed networks. | IBM Z NetView Installation: Configuring Additional Components |
| Status monitor | Collects status information about SNA resources in the network | IBM Z NetView Installation: Configuring Additional Components |
| Subsystem interface (SSI) | Used by MVS operators to send commands to the NetView program and by NetView operators to receive output from commands sent to MVS through the SSI; also can be used to monitor MVS operations, because unsolicited messages are sent to NetView program through the SSI | IBM Z NetView Installation: Configuring Additional Components |
| Sysplex management | The NetView program can be used to manage a sysplex from a single point of control. | IBM Z NetView IP Management |
| TCP/IP connection data collection | Collects TCP/IP connection data to be displayed in NetView workspaces in the Tivoli® Enterprise Portal, or on the 3270 console. Performance data collected by IBM® OMEGAMON for Networks can also be displayed. | IBM Z NetView Installation: Configuring Additional Components |
| TESTPORT function | Provides monitoring capability for critical ports using the TESTPORT command. Monitors a port that refuses a connection but appears to be normal when the NETSTAT command is issued. | IBM Z NetView Installation: Configuring Additional Components |
| TSO command server | Supports operations and procedures that issue commands through TSO. | IBM Z NetView Installation: Configuring Additional Components |
| UNIX command server | Enables UNIX commands to be entered from the NetView command line and returns output to the NetView console. | IBM Z NetView Installation: Configuring Additional Components |
| XCF services | In sysplex management, z/OS XCF services are used to help initiate resource discovery and facilitate forwarding of management data in the sysplex, and to implement a master NetView program. The master NetView program has the complete view of the sysplex. | IBM Z NetView Installation: Configuring Additional Components |
| zERT data collection | Collects TCP/IP connection security data to be displayed in NetView workspaces in the Tivoli Enterprise Portal, or on the 3270 console. | IBM Z NetView Installation: Configuring Additional Components |
| Note: No additional steps
are required before using this function.
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