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Product Overview

The product is an operations automation and management application. It can be implemented on one or more computers in an organization, depending on the operations requirements of the organization.

The product enables you to automate the operation of the SNA network resources in your organization. The product establishes a region that uses the information in a knowledge base to automate your organization’s operations processes.

The product enables you to implement a service-driven operations perspective of the SNA resources you want to manage. You can group resources into SNA groups and services, and automate the operation of those groups and services.

From the region, you can monitor the status of services, SNA groups, and resources, and act on them when problems occur.

The product provides focal point management to support multisystem operation (that is, management at a focal point with subordinates feeding information to it). Multisystem support enables you to monitor and control the resources from a single terminal.

The product establishes a region on your system that does the following: