Example tasks: real-time analysis

This section includes several examples of typical real-time analysis setup tasks.

Monitoring critical tasks
This example shows how you can use RTA to monitor your CICS regions to make sure that a certain transaction ID is always running, and to issue a message for the operations staff when the transaction is found to be no longer running.
Switching system availability monitoring (SAM) on for a MAS
System availability monitoring issues warnings when problems occur in monitored CICS systems.
Changing the default actions for system availability monitoring (SAM)
If you turn on system availability monitoring (SAM) for a particular CICS system, CICSPlex SM issues the default notifications when one of the predefined conditions occurs. That is, CICSPlex SM generates an external message and an event notification. You can customize the external message and the event notification to suit local requirements.
Monitoring resources temporarily
Often, your reasons for monitoring a CICS resource are temporary. For example, a problem might arise with a particular MRO connection that you solve using real-time analysis for a limited period of time. Also, even if you know that you want monitoring of a resource to be regular and permanent, you are recommended to start by monitoring the resource temporarily, so that you can fine-tune the real-time analysis definitions and assess their results.
Monitoring resources permanently
In this example, you will use the WUI to create the real-time analysis definitions required to make this monitoring regular and permanent.
Reusing analysis specifications and analysis groups
In this example you will use the WUI to see how to use an analysis specification and an analysis group for more than one type of resource checking.
Monitoring a resource type in a single CICS system
In this example, you'll see how to get CICSPlex SM to monitor the LU 6.2 connections in CICS system CICSPT02, which has recently been experiencing LU 6.2 problems. Both an external message and an event notification are to be issued whenever any connection is found to be in RELEASED status. The monitoring will not be limited to specific hours of the day, but will be continuous.
Monitoring a resource type throughout the CICSplex
In this example, you will see how to monitor the availability of all MRO connections throughout CICSplex PLXPROD1.
Monitoring multiple resource types in a CICS system group (1)
This example shows how to monitor both the CDSA and the UDSA free sizes for two CICS systems, CICSPA01 and CICSPA02, which have already been defined as the only members of CICS system group CSGAORS1.
Monitoring multiple resource types in a CICS system group (2)
The first example showed you how to monitor two types of resource (CDSA and UDSA) in a group of CICS systems. This example shows you how to monitor those same resources (CDSA and UDSA), but with differences in the number of action definitions required and the activation period.
Updating analysis and evaluation definitions
This example shows how to update the evaluation definition and the analysis definition you used for the CDSA resource in the previous example.
Deactivating an analysis definition
This example shows you how to deactivate an analysis definition, installed for a specific period of time, before that time has elapsed.
Using data gathered by the resource monitoring function
This example shows you how the real-time analysis functions of CICSPlex SM can interpret data from another CICSPlex SM function—resource monitoring—and issue appropriate notifications when problems occur.
Issuing one notification for multiple conditions(1)
In the real-time analysis examples you've seen so far, CICSPlex SM has monitored one or more instances of a resource in one or more CICS systems, and each occurrence of a notifiable condition has caused an external message or an event notification to be issued.
Issuing one notification for multiple conditions (2)
This example shows you how to monitor the availability of transactions whose names begin with the letters ETR throughout the CICSplex. (A transaction is not available if its status is DISABLED in any AOR in which it is locally defined.) An event notification and an alert is issued if any ETR* transaction is unavailable in one or more AORs.
Modifying the state of a resource
You can use an evaluation definition and an analysis definition to modify a CICS resource when it is not in the intended state.
Finding out why a CICSPlex SM event occurred
This example shows you how to investigate what caused a real-time analysis event notification RTDPAY01 to be issued.

Parent topic: Real-time analysis