Accessing and navigating the MainView Middleware Monitor interfaces

The MainView Middleware Monitor (MVMM) product provides the following interfaces that enable access to data and configuration options. Your user permissions determine the extent to which you can access the features described in this and other topics in the documentation.

Monitor Console

The Monitor Console acts as the main interface for MainView Middleware Monitor (MVMM). IT Operations and other specialists use the Monitor Console to monitor applications, events, and devices, define users and security settings, or to diagnose problems. 

To access the Monitor Console, see Accessing the Monitor Console.

For details about how to work in the Monitor Console, see Navigating the Monitor Console.

MainView Middleware Administrator (Monitor Edition)

The MainView Middleware Administrator (Monitor Edition) is a license restricted version of the MainView Middleware Administrator (click here for a feature comparison of the differences between the full version and the Monitor Edition), which enables you to manage queue managers, queues, channels, and other queue objects. The installation of MainView Middleware Monitor includes access to the MainView Middleware Administrator (Monitor Edition).

See the MainView Middleware Administrator document space for further information.

Report Designer

The MVMM Eclipse IDE for Java and Report Developers allows you to import, design and preview MVMM History Reports before publishing them to MVMM. Once published, the report designs can be incorporated into views and dashboards in the Monitor Console, as described in Working with views and dashboards. For brevity, MVMM Eclipse IDE for Java and Report Developers is referred to as the Report Designer.

To access the Report Designer, first download the  report_designer_install.exe from the Launch page. Once installed, it can be accessed from Start > All Programs > MainView Middleware Monitor > MVMM Eclipse IDE for Java and Report Developers.

For further information, see Working with the Report Designer.

Command line utilities

Although you can navigate the user interface to perform most administrative tasks, you can also perform many tasks to manage and maintain the MVMM environment from the Command Line Interface (CLI). Listed below are the CLI utilities that can be used to manage the product:

• maketmpltassoc - enables you to create or delete multiple event or history template associations in a group
• mqsexport / mqsimport  - enable you to export and import Monitor Console environmental components
• manageeventsuppression - enables you to prevent MVMM from sending notifications when event conditions have been met
• repomgr - enables you to manage objects in the object repository
• policytool - enables you to list policy objects, evaluate policies or objects, or evaluate policies or objects and apply the evaluated actions
• dashboardtool - enables you to list dashboards and view collections, as well as add objects to or remove objects from a dashboard
• hosttool - enables you to add or remove entries from the Hosts table in the database
• agentdist - enables you to manage the agent and extension packages
• audittool - enables you to test and query the creation of audit records
• certtool - enables you to list or revoke certificates issued to MVMM agents
• mqsusertool - enables you to manage MVMM security information
• mqtool - enables you to manage integration with MainView Middleware Administrator (MVMA)
• alerttool - enables you to gather information under direction of BMC Support to help troubleshoot event or console alert issues