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What You Can Manage

You can manage the following components in your IP network:

Connections

You can diagnose the following connections from connection lists:

You can use event detector to alert you on specific connection events.

IP resources

You can monitor and diagnose the following IP resources:

z/OS IP stacks

The product supports CA TCPaccess CS and IBM's Communications Server. You can monitor the stacks through the following views:

  • Business view of connections by applications
  • Hardware view of network interfaces
  • Network view of IP, TCP, and UDP activity

These resources are defined under the STACK resource class.

Open Systems Adapters (OSAs)

The product supports OSA-2, OSA-Express, OSA-Express2, and OSA-Express3.

These resources are defined under the OSA resource class.

Address Spaces

You can monitor the IP activity for address spaces (for example, connections and throughput by ports).

These resources are defined under the ASMON resource class.

Enterprise Extender (EE)

You can monitor the IP activity on EE (for example, throughput by UDP ports and traffic statistics by remote control points (CPs)).

These resources are defined under the EE resource class.

Advanced Peer to Peer Networking/High Performance Routing (APPN/HPR)

The resource represents the Rapid Transport Protocol (RTP) pipes on a system. You can monitor the activity on and the status of the pipes.

These resources are defined under the APPNHPR resource class.

Virtual IP Addresses (VIPAs)

You can monitor the IP activity for dynamic VIPAs (for example, distributed bytes and connections).

These resources are defined under the VIPA resource class.

Cisco Channel Cards

You can monitor attributes such as channel loading, Common Link Access for Workstation (CLAW) activity, and TN3270 response time.

These resources are defined under the CIP resource class.

Communications Storage Manager (CSM)

You can display CSM usage, and monitor attributes such as data space buffer and ECSA storage.

These resources are defined under the CSM resource class.

IP nodes

You can monitor and diagnose IP nodes. An IP node is any host that is reachable using IP from the z/OS system. The nodes can include routers, servers, workstations, other systems, and interfaces. Nodes are defined under the IPNODE resource class.