Network Activity

CA APM Cross-Enterprise monitors data for the following Network Activity metrics from a connected CA NetMaster NM for TCP/IP region:

TCP Active Conns

Displays the current number of active TCP/IP connections, summed for all monitored stacks.

IP Input Bytes/Sec

Displays the rate of total IP input in bytes per second for all stacks on this LPAR.

IP Output Bytes/Sec

Displays the rate of total IP output in byte per second for all stacks on this LPAR.

Telnet Active Conns

Displays the current number of active Telnet connections.

FTP Active Conns

Displays the current number of active File Transfer Protocol (FTP) transfers.

Sysplex Distributor Current Conns

Displays the number of currently and recently active connections that are redirected by this LPAR.

If there is no TCP/IP stack in this LPAR functioning as a sysplex distributor distributing host, then the value of this metric is always zero.

Redirected connections are counted in this metric feed until they have had no observed packet activity for the age-out period (a few minutes).

For detailed diagnosis of the network connection workload, use these functions in the CA NetMaster NM for TCP/IP region:

Use STACK workload monitoring to alert on workload attributes.
Use the TCP Applications activity display (accessible by the /ASMON.TC panel path) to compare how different tasks are contributing to network activity.
Use connection lists to examine where the connections to an individual task are coming from.