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System Condition Monitor

The System Condition Monitor (SCM):

• Clearly provides a color-coded, high-level summary of the resources that are currently being monitored. The SCM tells you at a glance where the problems are, so that you do not have to search multiple areas to find problem sources.
• Lets the Helpdesk personnel and operators notify appropriate personnel when a problem exists. System programmers can drill down and can find the source of the problem.
• Lists all your subsystems and resources using the primary SCM screen. For example: DASD, file systems, CICS regions, and more. Each entry has a color indicator that shows whether a problem exists and, if so, the severity of the problem. For each entry, you can easily drill down to see more detail.
• Clearly describes problems; for example, “WTOs requiring replies is 34.” Also provided are positive statements about system health, such as “No TAPE devices require attention.”
• Simply provides an out-of-the-box experience. In addition, you can easily customize it to monitor any data that is available on your systems. You can also expand it easily by adding your own data to monitor more resources.
• Uses intelligent modules that are written in compiled REXX with additional CA supplied functions, or IMODs, that communicate with the monitored subsystems. You use IMODs to automate system monitoring and regulate resources or to create your own online reports on system activities.

Important! When upgrading to a new release of CA SYSVIEW, the new release and the IMOD libraries that are shipped with the new release match. The new IMOD libraries overlay and therefore replace the IMOD libraries from the previous release. If you decide to modify the IMOD libraries, CA suggests creating a site-specific IMOD library for those locally written IMODs.