What is real-time analysis?
CICSPlex® SM real-time analysis (RTA) function provides automatic, external, notification of conditions in which you have expressed an interest.
Real-time analysis is not concerned solely with commonly recognized error conditions: you can ask to be notified about any aspect of a resource's status.
- System Availability Monitoring (SAM): see System Availability Monitoring (SAM)
- RTA resource monitoring, which includes:
- MAS resource monitoring (MRM): see MAS resource monitoring (MRM)
- Analysis point monitoring (APM): see Analysis point monitoring (APM)
For example, if you tell CICSPlex SM that all files used by CICS systems AORPAY1 must be in ENABLED status, CICSPlex SM sends out warning messages when the status of any of those files is other than ENABLED. However, CICSPlex SM isn't restricted to telling you about a problem only after it has occurred. CICSPlex SM real strength lies in its ability to detect potential problems with CICS resources. Indeed, CICSPlex SM is unrivaled in its ability to detect and warn of the slightest change in the status of a CICS resource. For example, CICSPlex SM can tell you that resource contention is growing, or that the dynamic storage area (DSA) free space is falling, or that the number of users of a particular transaction is high: these can all be indicators of future problems that you could avoid by taking preventive action.
The notification can take the form of a console message, or of a generic alert to NetView®, or both. The CICSPlex SM application programming interface (API) makes it possible for automation products actively to gather status information from CICSPlex SM, rather than waiting for CICSPlex SM to send out MVS™ messages and SNA generic alerts.