MainView architecture
MainView is an integrated family of performance management and automation products that monitor and control traditional and parallel mainframes. MainView comprises performance monitors, automated operations, and automation applications.
MainView product integration allows host system monitoring and automation (even in remote locations) through a common terminal session, using the MainView Selection Menu. The integration of MainView products is provided through intercommunications technology known as BBI.
BBI integrates the MainView performance products within a common communications framework that operates across multiple machines in multiple locations. This integrated architecture allows a single terminal session, using one or more MainView products, to monitor and manage multiple local or remote targets, such as the IBM z/OS system (sysplex and nonsysplex) or subsystems such as:
- IBM CICS
- IBM DB2
- IBM IMS
- IP
- Linus Torvalds Linux
- The Open Group UNIX
- UNIX System Services
- IBM VTAM
- IBM WebSphere
- WebSphere MQ
For products that operate in MainView windows mode, this architecture provides a built-in separation of the data, application, and end-use dimensions of systems management for maximum flexibility and extensibility. BBI communications, data collection, and the end-user terminal session run in distinct address spaces:
This multiple address space structure provides a consistent, flexible environment for managing hundreds of system images. Depending on the products that are installed, this environment allows you to:
- Access different systems and products quickly and easily with simple target switching, direct hyperlinks between products, or multiple concurrent views on one terminal session
- Summarize data on a single system, or across the coordinating address space (CAS) for multiple system images
- View historical or real-time data from multiple systems, summarized into one view
- Enter commands for multiple products on multiple systems
- Apply simple or complex data filtering conditions