Omegamon message to the operator

Answer

Omegamon II does not have the ability to send messages to the console or other users. Omegamon XE can send messages to the console using the Take Action feature of TEP/CNP.
There are also several methods of doing this using Omegamon Classic.

1. Use AF/Operator or Tivoli System Automation for z/OS. Those products can logon to Omegamon Classic, issue commands and read output, and then take action (such as send a message)
   
   For AF/Operator, refer to the AF/Operator Configuration and Customization Guide, sections titled 'OMEGAMON Interface' and 'POVI and/or OMEGAMON Virtual Terminal Support'.
   
   For Tivoli System Automation for z/OS, refer to the Customizing and Programming manual, section titled 'Health Monitoring using OMEGAMON'.
   
   
2. Use another 3rd party automated operations package that has the ability to interface to the Omegamon classic XLFLOG. The XLFLOG contains data for Omegamon exceptions that have been enabled and configured to log their output with the XACB command. By default, the XLFLOG is sent to a dynamically allocated sysout dataset. Using the Omegamon OUTP and DDNM commands, you can redirect this output to a dataset specified on a DD card in the Omegamon started task procedure. You can then enable your 3rd party product to read this dataset and take the appropriate action.
   
   
3. Use Omegamon Classic directly. A sample is below.
   
   To set up Omegamon Classic to send a message to the operator (or anyone)
   when the XACR exception trips, do the following:
   
   1) Logon to Omegamon and clear the screen.
   2) Enter /DEFON on the top line
   3) Enter the following commands on the screen:
   
   -OCMD SE 'Current cpu utilization is &ZXXACRV %',OPERATOR=2
   .RTN
   
   4) Enter /SAVE xacr01 on the command line
   5) Enter command XACB LIST=XACR and set the fields under the
   XLF parameters column as follows.
   
   XACB LIST=XACR
   : XACR
   + DISPLAY Parameters: THRESHOLD Parameters: XLF Parameters:
   : State=ON Threshold=1 Auto=ON
   : Group=HD Display=CLR4 Log=ON
   : Bell=OFF Attribute=NONE Limit=NONE
   : BOX Parameters: CYCLE Parameters: Repeat=YES
   : Boxchar=NO BOX ExNcyc=0 Persist=1
   : Boxclr=NONE Stop=0 (17) SL=XACR01
   : Boxattr=NONE Cumulative=17
   
   6) Issue OPTN command and set ASF and XLF options ON.
   7) Use the .SET command to set the refresh interval.
   8) Use the .AUPON command to turn on automatic refreshing.