MainView Alarm Management access

To access MainView Alarm Management through MainView Explorer

1. Launch MainView Explorer (either in a web browser or from a local directory), and log on to start your MainView Explorer session.
2. To access the MainView Alarm Management views in MainView Explorer, expand the ALARM folder under the PLEXMGR product icon in the navigation frame.
   
   
   
   
   
   
3. To access the Alarm Management EZALARMS menu in MainView Explorer, double click the EZALARMS icon in the navigation frame to open the EZALARMS menu in the view frame.
   
   
   

   For more information on using MainView Explorer, see Using MainView products, or the MainView Explorer online Help.

To access MainView Alarm Management through TSO

1. Execute the MainView CLIST to display the MainView Selection Menu.

   Note

   You can use a CLIST to invoke MainView products under ISPF. This CLIST allocates all required libraries and connects to them through the ISPF LIBDEF. See Customizing after installation for more information on setting up the MainView CLIST.

   MainView Selection menu

   ------------------------- MainView Selection Menu --------------------------
   OPTION  ===>                                              DATE   -- mm/dd/yy
                                                             TIME   -- hh:mm
        0  Parameters and Options                            USERID -- tsoid
        1  MainView Administration                           MODE   -- ISPF v.r
        E  Alerts and Alarms
        P  PLEX Management (PLEXMGR)
        U  Utilities, Tools, and Messages
   
     Solutions for:
        A  Automated Operations
        C  CICS 
        D  DB2 
        I  IMS 
        J  JAVA Environments     
        L  Linux and z/VM 
        N  Network Management
        O  Cost Optimization 
        S  Storage Management
        T  Application Management and Performance Tuning
        W  MQ and WAS 
        Z  z/OS and USS 
   
        Enter X to Terminate

2. Select option E, Alerts and Alarms, from the MainView Selection menu, and press Enter. The Alerts and Alarms menu is displayed.

    ----------------------------- Alerts and Alarms--------------------------------
    OPTION  ===>                                               DATE   -- 2019/03/21
                                                               TIME   -- 11:38:15  
          1  ALERTS       Alert Management                     USERID -- ROHMKC    
          2  ALARMS       Old MVAlarm 2.1                      MODE   -- ISPF 7.2  
          3  ALARMS       Alarm Management (PLEXMGR)                               
                                                                                   
          M  MESSAGES     Messages and Codes                                       

3. Select option 3, ALARMS, and press Enter.
   Depending on how you specified the session parameters (using option 0 on the MainView Selection menu), MainView displays either the ISPF Session Control Parameters panel or the EZALARMS menu (Easy Menu (EZALARMS)).
   

   ------------------------ SESSION CONTROL PARAMETERS ----------------------
   COMMAND ===>
   
   Subsystem ID    ===> BBCS      (CAS Subsystem ID, ? for list of active SSIDs)
   
   XDM mode        ===> NO        (Execute session in diagnostic mode, Yes/No)
   
   
   Press ENTER to confirm use of session parameters entered above.

4. If your subsystem ID is correctly specified in the Subsystem ID field, press Enter. (You might have to contact your product administrator to verify that the ID is correct.)
   
   After you press Enter on the Session Control Parameters panel, you see the message, Connecting... at the top right corner of your screen. When you are connected, the EZALARMS menu appears (Easy Menu (EZALARMS)).

    21MAR2019  11:08:47 ------ MAINVIEW WINDOW INTERFACE (V6.3.00) ----------------
    COMMAND  ===>                                                 SCROLL ===> CSR  
    CURR WIN ===> 1        ALT WIN ===>                                            
    >W1 =EZALARMS==========SJSC=====*========21MAR2019==11:08:47====PLEXMGR==D====1
                                  Alarm Management                                 
        Alarm Definition                                   Alarm Reports           
      . By Name                +----------------------+  . Current by Severity     
      . By Library             |   Place cursor on    |  . Current by Name         
      . By Group               |    menu item and     |  . Current by Target       
      . By Product             |     press ENTER      |  . Current by Product      
      . By Target (Context)    +----------------------+  . Current by Solution Prof
      . By Solution Profile                              . Sum by Severity         
      . Active Alarms                                    . Sum by Name             
      . Migrated Alarms                                  . Sum by Solution Profile 
      . Summary by Group                                 . Alarm Report Log        
                                Status and Performance   . Recent Alarm Report     
        Activity Log           . Alarm Evaluator Status  . Alarm Activity          
      . Alarm Modifications    . Alarm Status Detail                               
      . Alarm Parm Actions     . Alarm Performance         Other                   
      . Alarm Console Command                            . Alarm Parameters        
                                                         > MVAlert                 
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