Monitoring on the workstation

IBM® z/OS Management Facility (z/OSMF) is a web-browser based management console for z/OS. The z/OSMF Resource Monitoring plug-in allows cross-sysplex performance monitoring from a single point of control. From the z/OSMF task tree, you can select the following subtasks:

• The System Status task provides an enterprise-wide health check of all z/OS sysplexes.
• For further analysis, the Resource Monitoring task can graphically display RMF™ Monitor III metrics as well as AIX®, Linux, or Windows metrics by means of customizable views.

RMF Performance Monitoring (RMF PM) gives you the capability to construct monitoring scenarios and use them whenever necessary. This is done on the Windows workstation, and the access to the current performance data of your z/OS systems is possible without the need to have a TSO/E session running.

Client/Server Enabling (RMFCS) uses the client/server concept to support performance management for z/OS systems without an active TSO/TCAS subsystem on the host.

You can access Monitor II and Monitor III reports with RMFCS by exploiting the ISPF Batch GUI feature. This way, RMFCS combines the advantages of a single point of control for z/OS performance management with a state-of-the-art user front end.

RMFCS supports event-driven monitoring. That is, predefined events on the MVS™ hosts can be configured to initiate performance monitoring. These events may be either specific system messages, or selected performance data counters that exceed predefined Monitor III exception thresholds.