Managers

A manager is a client application that requests management data. z/OS® Communications Server provides two management applications, the z/OS UNIX snmp command (the osnmp command is a synonym for the snmp command), and the NetView® SNMP command. The snmp command is a management application used from the z/OS UNIX shell to monitor and control network elements. The NetView SNMP command provides the same type of functions from the NetView environment.

The snmp command runs in a user address space that is created and removed as snmp is issued and completed. The NetView SNMP client requires the following started tasks:
  • SNMPIUCV subtask of NetView, which runs in the NetView address space and provides the operator interface to SNMP.
  • SNMP query stack address space, which provides the protocol support for the SNMP PDUs.

The SNMPIUCV subtask in the NetView address space and the SNMP query stack address space communicate over an IUCV connection.

Parent topic: Functional components