VitalSigns for IP:
Run z/OS - IP networks with full confidence.
Complete monitoring of...
- Applications and networks
- IPv4 and IPv6
- Sysplex Distributor, HPR, and EE connections
- TN3270 and HTML response
- IP fragmentation.
- OSA traffic
Get daily or hourly charts by e-mail.
Predict and prevent network problems.
Use as little as 1% of CPU.
For TCP/IP networks on IBM z/OS(R) mainframes, VitalSigns for IP (VIP) provides graphic displays of network health and traffic. To help managers identify slow-downs and service problems, it reports real-time and historical data at common desktop browsers and in SMF records.
VIP reports on remote servers, outgoing client traffic, HPR, EE, and TCP connections, Sysplex Distributors, and IP fragmentation.
VIP batch tools greatly simplify tracing of both IP and OSA traffic.
Alerts come to network managers by e-mail, system console, and browser interface.
VIP reports fragmentation and re-assembly errors taking place throughout a network or at specific interfaces, applications, ports and/or connections. VIP can also report every decrease in MTU along a network path.
VIP provides:
- At-a-Glance summaries of HPR, Sysplex Distributors, FTP, telnet, TN3270, Enterprise Extender, DLC, DVIPA, and OSA.
- Quick lists of Heavy Hitters--the applications moving the most data and/or with the most users.
- History reports for FTP and telnet.
- Remote-host monitoring and graphic traceroute tool--see paths, path lengths, round-trip times, numbers of connections and MTU values.
- Graphic on-line tools for IP packet tracing, for and for viewing SNMP data from any node on the network.
- Tracing of EE connections at all 5 ports by LDLC.
VIP Agents reside on IBM z/OS(R) systems, where they monitor performance of their hosts--including data on applications, buffers, interfaces, TCP/IP stacks and remote IP devices.
VIP Agents pass data to one or more VIP Servers--fully portable Java services that run equally well on Linux, Unix, Windows, or z/OS Unix System Services (USS).
VIP Servers deliver monitoring data to common desktop web browsers.
VIP Agents also offload monitoring data to SMF archives, for reporting via SAS and batch jobs.
Agents deliver history reports to the JES spool, to e-mail addresses and/or to FTP servers.