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Operator Console

Operator Console Services (OCS) provides an operator environment for command entry to monitor and control your region.

OCS is used in conjunction with the following system services:

Activity Log

Allows you to access all the commands, messages, or errors that have been issued and logged in the region for any given day

Network Information Utility File

Provides descriptions of errors and codes that are displayed in OCS

Remote Operator Facility (ROF)

Allows you to monitor and control remote regions through OCS

Network Partitioning Facility (NPF)

Allows you to subdivide your network so that different parts are controlled by different operators

Event Distribution Services (EDS)

Allows you to filter out unwanted messages in OCS before they are passed to an application procedure

Multiple Access Interface-Operator Console (MAI-OC)

Allows you to log on to VTAM applications for monitoring and control

Alert Monitor

The Alert Monitor provides an event notification system that tells you that a problem has been detected and that some action needs to be taken.

Alerts provide pro-active notification of performance-related network events. An alert is raised if a monitored attribute exceeds a user-specified threshold value or the calculated baseline and is automatically deleted when the threshold is no longer exceeded.

Alerts are also generated by event detectors when a particular event occurs, for example, the availability of a listener port or the occurrence of a File Transfer Protocol (FTP) failure.

You can update, track, and delete alerts from the Alert Monitor. You can raise a problem ticket from an alert. Alerts may also be forwarded to other applications and platforms.

Note: For information about defining monitoring thresholds and event detectors, see the Implementation Guide.

The Alert Monitor provides a single point to view problems in your IP network.

The alert monitor is also available through WebCenter.