Product Overview

CA NetMaster NM for TCP/IP addresses day-to-day network operations, availability, and performance management challenges, letting you unify and simplify the management of your IT environment for greater business results. The product empowers your organization to resolve problems proactively with IP network access to mainframe-hosted applications, helping to ensure that service-level goals are met.

CA NetMaster NM for TCP/IP lets you display information about z/OS mainframe IP network activity and provides a diagnostic interface to mainframe IP network resources. The product pinpoints network slow-downs or failures and monitors the availability and use of TCP/IP connections to mainframe applications such as CICS, DB2, or WebSphere. You can watch and look after the IP networks of multiple MVS systems (LPARs) from its consolidated, enterprise-wide 3270 and web browser displays.

Using CA NetMaster NM for TCP/IP, you can find out the following information about your networks:

Status of network resources and alerts on network problems through various monitor displays
List of connections that satisfy criteria (such as round-trip time (RTT) and user IDs) specified by you
Events (such as connections and FTP failures) that can help you manage your networks
Real-time and long-term performance data about your mainframe-connected networks
Packet traces, which can help you diagnose network problems