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Centralized Monitoring of Mainframe and Distributed Systems

By consolidating messages to the CA NSM Event Console, you can monitor the health of your mainframe and distributed systems from a central location. CA OPS/MVS can send messages to the Event Console by using the ADDRESS USS WTO command. A typical implementation can be as follows:

1. You want the Event Console to display messages that alert the operations staff to certain conditions on your mainframe systems.
2. You create rules to detect those conditions.
3. In each rule, you include the following command so that when the rule triggers, a message (message_text) is sent to the CA NSM server (nsm_host_name) for display on the Event Console:

   ADDRESS USS "WTO TEXT('"message_text"') NODE(nsm_host_name)"
   

   Note: The ADDRESS USS WTO command provides various keywords that let you specify attributes for the message to be sent (for example, color). For more information, see the Command and Function Reference.

4. When the rules are enabled, messages are sent using CAICCI to CA NSM as the monitored conditions occur.
5. CA NSM can further process these messages (for example, correlate them with other messages and take appropriate actions).