Monitoring and Diagnosing IP Resources and Nodes › How You Manage IP Resources

How You Manage IP Resources

When you first start the region, Express Setup discovers and defines the IP resources available on your system at that time in a system image. You can monitor and act on these resources from the IP Resource Monitor. You can enter the /IPMON shortcut to access the monitor. As you learn more about the IP network, you can refine the existing resources or add resources to provide more targeted monitoring.

Typically, an IP resource definition has the following features that you can use:

• You can monitor the performance attributes of individual resources. For example, the ConTotalActive attribute of a STACK resource gives the total number of active connections for the stack. Some of these attributes are also monitored on the Condition Summary.

  Attributes enable you to test the performance of a resource against a value or a calculated baseline to trigger alerts and actions.

• You can monitor specific messages and specify actions to respond to those messages.
• Monitoring uses system resources. Monitoring maps enable you to monitor specific resources at the required times.

From the IP Resource Monitor, you can use the DB line command to refine resources or the F4 (Add) function key to add resources. The following process shows you how to add a resource from the IP Resource Monitor:

1. Press F4 to add a resource.
2. Select the system image to which you want to add the resource. In a multisystem environment, the image is the one on the system where the resource operates.
3. Select the class of resource you want to add.
4. Complete the definition of the resource.

Example: IP Resource Monitor

This example shows monitored IP resources. The color reflects the status of a resource.

You can enter a question mark (?) next to a resource to list the commands you can issue. For example, you can use the IC (List IP Connections) command on a STACK resource to list connections.