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Knowledge Base

Automation Services uses a knowledge base to maintain resource information. System images, in which you define resources that are to be managed by a region, are part of the knowledge base.

Status Monitor

The status monitor technology is used to provide monitors specific to the resource classes supported by your product. For example, CA NetMaster NM for TCP/IP has an IP Resource Monitor and an IP Node Monitor.

The status monitor provides a consolidated view of the status of all resources. The status monitor is updated asynchronously, so the display is always up-to-date.

You can apply flexible filtering criteria to determine the resources that appear on the status monitor. You can issue commands from the status monitor against a resource. Each class of resource has its own commands, which may display information about the resource or perform actions against it.

IP Node Monitor

The IP Node Monitor gives visibility to critical IP nodes such as routers.

You can issue simple commands from the IP Node Monitor to ping a node, perform a traceroute, or view information in the node’s MIB. You can also perform intensive monitoring on the node to help you determine the cause of a performance problem.

The IP Node Monitor is also available through WebCenter.

IP Resource Monitor

The IP Resource Monitor gives visibility to the following types of critical IP resources:

IP stacks

You can monitor CA TCPaccess CS and IBM’s Communications Server (IBM TCP/IP) stacks for:

• Connection, Telnet, and FTP workload
• IP network, and Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) or User Datagram Protocol (UDP) performance
• Network interfaces
• Address spaces
• Port throughput
• Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) management information base (MIB) attributes

Virtual IP addresses (VIPAs)

Are IP addresses that are not associated with a physical adapter. You can monitor dynamic VIPA status and connection workload.

Open Systems Adapters (OSAs)

Are IBM hardware devices that combine the functions of a communications controller and a channel, for connecting a system to a network. You can monitor OSA2, OSA-Express, and OSA DirectExpress usage, throughput, and error counts.

Enterprise Extender

Provides high performance SNA access over an IP network. You can monitor:

• Line availability
• Traffic by VIPA
• Traffic by CP
• Retransmission rates
• RTP health

APPN/HPR

Enables SNA LU to LU sessions between peer devices using high performance routing. You can monitor the number of RTP pipes:

• Available
• With LU to LU sessions
• With severe traffic congestion for more than five minutes
• With an inbound or outbound queue over your specified limit
• In a STALLED state
• With more than one recent serious path switch

Communications Storage Manager (CSM)

Monitors IBM's Communications Server buffer pools. The monitoring of CSM buffer usage lets you compare data space, extended common services area (ECSA), and fixed storage usage between tasks.

Address spaces

Let you monitor any IP server or application to help ensure the availability of listener ports, and raise alerts if the IP port traffic is outside acceptable levels.

Cisco channel cards

Provides proactive notification of potential problems with Channel Interface Processor (CIP) or Channel Port Adapter (CPA) devices, and the ability to track the history of usage for capacity planning.

CICS resources

(CA NetMaster SM for CICS configured in region) Let you monitor CICS resources.

The IP Resource Monitor monitors the performance and availability of these resources.

The IP Resource Monitor is also available through WebCenter.