IBM Tivoli NetView for z/OS

Tivoli NetView® for z/OS® provides the key capabilities and advanced functions to help you maintain the highest degree of availability of your System zTM networks. It offers an extensive set of tools for managing and maintaining complex, multi-vendor, multiplatform networks and systems from a single point of control. NetView for z/OS brings advanced automation, support for both TCP/IP and SNA networks, and a set of UI's to meet every user's need. It also provides management functions that work in cooperation with other products.

Features and capabilities of NetView for z/OS v5.4:

Enhanced sysplex management

• Discovers and manages additional sysplex resources, including:
  • Subplexes
  • Coupling facilities
  • Logical partitions
  • Central processing complexes
  • Telnet servers and ports
  • Open Systems Adapter interfaces and ports
  • Hipersocket interfaces

• Uses z/OS Cross Systems Coupling Facility (XCF) to support NetView as a high-availability sysplex application

• Offers additional DVIPA management capabilities, including:
  • Improved performance when discovering DVIPA data
  • Views of DVIPAs based on their origin (application instance or stack-defined)
  • Additional information for Distributed DVIPA (DDVIPA) including DDVIPA servers, targets and DDVIPA connection routing
  • Event-based updates
  • Historical data

• Supports forwarding of sysplex data from multiple sysplexes to a single sysplex providing a view of an entire enterprise

Enhanced Tivoli Enterprise Portal Integration

• Additional workspaces in the TEP for DVIPA and DDVIPA data, NetView domains within a sysplex, OSA and Hipersocket interfaces and Telnet servers and ports

• New, out-of-the-box situations and expert advice

• Additional links to OMEGAMON XE product workspaces, including OMEGAMON XE for Mainframe Networks and OMEGAMON XE on z/OS

Networking

• Packet and OSA trace management

• Management of ITNM-discovered resources

• Web services gateway

z/OS system automation and management

• New command revision table for editing and processing z/OS system commands

• Global keeps for NetView pipes

• SMF record type 30 automation giving automation access to job initiation and termination information

• Passwords up to 100 characters

• Presentation of messages as action messages based on user-specified descriptor codes

• Generation of Tivoli Service Request Manager incident records from alerts or message events

NetView for z/OS is designed to

• Improve network efficiency and increase system availability

• Extend centralized management for mainframe TCP/IP and SNA network environments

• Reduce or eliminate the need for operator intervention to deal with system messages

• Manages larger networks, more resources and more systems with fewer resources and personnel. Control can be consolidated at a single console if desired.