Data sources that contribute to the operational insights
For each type of source data that you want to gather to gain insights into your IT operations environment, this reference describes the configuration that must be done to send that data to IBM® Z Operations Analytics.
- Data that is provided by IBM Z Common Data Provider
- In the IBM Z Common Data Provider Configuration
Tool, you define data streams to gather source data and send that data to IBM Z Operations Analytics. For each type of source
data that is provided by IBM Z Common Data Provider,
this reference describes how to define the associated data stream in a policy in the Configuration
Tool.
Where necessary, this reference also describes how to enable the generation of the respective data at its source.
You can define data streams for the following types of source data:- CICS EYULOG and MSGUSR log data
- NetView message data
- SMF 30 data
- SMF 80 data
- SMF 110 data
- SMF 120 data
- SYSLOG data
- syslogd data
- WebSphere SYSOUT data
- WebSphere SYSPRINT data
- zSecure data
- For the Elastic Stack and Splunk platforms only:
- For the IBM Operations Analytics - Log Analysis platform only:
- For the IBM Z Operations Analytics machine learning system only:
- Data that is provided by IBM z Advanced Workload Analysis Reporter (IBM zAware)
- zAware interval anomaly data is applicable only to the IBM Operations Analytics - Log Analysis platform. To gather this data, you must configure the IBM zAware data gatherer, which is a component of IBM Z Operations Analytics on the Log Analysis platform.