6. DATA SOURCES › 6.2 Processing Network Monitor Data From VM Hosts › 6.2.2 CA NetSpy

6.2.2 CA NetSpy

CA NetSpy is a VTAM application that monitors host and
network performance.  It is divided into three components:
the VTAM interface, the NCP (Network Control Program)
interface, and TCP/IP interface.  The VTAM interface collects
response time and traffic statistics for host applications
and their session partners.  The NCP interface collects
network traffic, utilization statistics, and network session
accounting data from the NCP NPA Logical Unit (NCP NPALU) in
front-end processors running NCP or equivalent software.  The
TCP/IP interface collects Telnet, IF, and UDP statistics.

CA NetSpy running under MVS is capable of writing its NCP and
VTAM interface data to SMF.  For the VM version of CA NetSpy,
the SMF equivalent log record is written to the CMS files
named in the LOG1 and LOG2 FILEDEF statements in the CA
NetSpy startup EXEC.  In order to process this data by CA
MICS, you must transport these CMS data sets to your CA MICS
MVS Host.  See Section 7.3.2 for details on the modifications
you must make to the DAY056 step of your CA MICS DAILY update
job to process this data.

The following sections discuss features of CA NetSpy:

   1 - CA NetSpy VTAM Interface
   2 - CA NetSpy NCP Interface
   3 - CA NetSpy TCP/IP Interface
   4 - CA NetSpy Network Session Accounting
   5 - CA NetSpy Network Gateway Accounting
   6 - CA NetSpy General Alerts
   7 - CA NetSpy-to-NetSpy Communication