Accessing BMC AMI Ops products with PLEX MANAGER
This section demonstrates how to list BMC AMI Ops products with Plex Manager. Also, you are shown how to display VistaPoint and Plex Manager views simultaneously.
Plex Manager is part of BMC AMI Ops. It provides a set of views to manage the connections between systems and BMC products.
- Enter reset on the COMMAND line to clear the screen.
Enter context * plexmgr;plex on the COMMAND line.
For now, understand that CONtext allows you to shift between BMC AMI Ops products and contexts.
If your site has a full complement of BMC AMI Ops products installed, the PLEX view should look something like the example. PLEX lists all the systems and products you can access. The current status of each product is shown in the Status field at the right column of the view.
In this section, MVSA and MVSB are the IDs of the z/OS systems that have a CAS and product PASs installed. Your PLEX view shows the system IDs of your site.18DEC2000 06:36:58 ----------- INFORMATION DISPLAY ---------------------------
COMMAND ===> SCROLL ===> PAGE
CURR WIN ===> 1 ALT WIN ===>
>W1 =PLEX==============SJSD=====*========18DEC2000==06:36:55====PLEXMGR=======8
C Product Context System Description Status
- -------- -------- -------- ---------------------------------------- -------
MVCICS CICS4103 CSVT added by vt on 10/20/00 Defined
MVCICS CICS4102 CSVT added by vt on 10/20/00 Defined
MVCICS CICVT411 SJSD BMC AMI Ops Monitor for CICS Active
MVCICS CICS4102 SJSD BMC AMI Ops Monitor for CICS Active
MVVP CICVT411 SJSD MainView VistaPoint Active
MVVP IMS51X SJSD MainView VistaPoint Active
MVVP CICS4102 SJSD MainView VistaPoint Active
PLEXMGR SJSD SJSD Target Manager ActiveThe window information line shows PLEX in the view name field and PLEXMGR in the product name further to the right. PLEXMGR is the Plex Manager product identifier.
You can access any available system or product from the PLEX view by using a hyperlink. Before you do, open another window to see two views from the same screen.
Create a second horizontal window with the hs command. Enter hs on the COMMAND line and move the cursor down the screen to a position where you want the top of the second window to appear. After pressing Enter, the second window you created should be displayed as the active window in the CURR WIN field.
18DEC2000 06:42:47 ----------- INFORMATION DISPLAY ---------------------------
COMMAND ===> SCROLL ===> PAGE
CURR WIN ===> 2 ALT WIN ===>
>W1 -PLEX--------------SJSD-----*--------18DEC2000--06:36:55----PLEXMGR-------8
C Product Context System Description Status
- -------- -------- -------- -------------------------------------- -------
MVCICS CICS4103 CSVT added by vt on 10/20/00 Defined
MVCICS CICS4102 CSVT added by vt on 10/20/00 Defined
MVCICS CICVT411 SJSD BMC AMI Ops Monitor for CICS Active
MVCICS CICS4102 SJSD BMC AMI Ops Monitor for CICS Active
MVVP CICVT411 SJSD MainView VistaPoint Active
MVVP IMS51X SJSD MainView VistaPoint Active
MVVP CICS4102 SJSD MainView VistaPoint Active
PLEXMGR SJSD SJSD Target Manager Active
T2 ===========================================================================- Place a 2 in the ALT WIN field but do not press Enter.
Both the CURR WIN and ALT WIN fields should now display a 2. Window 2 has been set as the destination for the hyperlink from Window 1. - Find the line that shows BMC AMI Ops Monitor for CICS or a CICS target.
Move the cursor to MVCICS listed in the Product column for the selected context and press Enter.
This shows that the BMC AMI Ops Monitor for CICS MAIN view is now displayed in window 2, which is now the current window.18DEC2000 06:45:45 ----------- INFORMATION DISPLAY ---------------------------
COMMAND ===> SCROLL ===> PAGE
CURR WIN ===> 2 ALT WIN ===>
>W1 -PLEX--------------SJSD-----*--------18DEC2000--06:36:55----PLEXMGR-------8
C Product Context System Description Status
- -------- -------- -------- ---------------------------------------- -------
MVCICS CICS4103 CSVT added by vt on 10/20/00 Defined
MVCICS CICS4102 CSVT added by vt on 10/20/00 Defined
MVCICS CICVT411 SJSD BMC AMI Ops Monitor for CICS Active
MVCICS CICS4102 SJSD BMC AMI Ops Monitor for CICS Active
MVVP CICVT411 SJSD MainView VistaPoint Active
MVVP IMS51X SJSD MainView VistaPoint Active
MVVP CICS4102 SJSD MainView VistaPoint Active
PLEXMGR SJSD SJSD Target Manager Active
>W2 =EZCICS============CICVT411=*========18DEC2000==06:45:45====MVCICS========1
CICS Region Menu
Timeframe - Interval
Target CICS region -> CICVT411
Target CICS Views +----------------------+ Tools and Menus
. User Tasks | Place cursor on | > Advanced Region Menu
. Transactions | menu item and | > Task Menu
. Programs | press ENTER | . Application Trace
. Files +----------------------+ . Transaction History
. DSA Overview > Utilities
. Terminals Related Views
. Connections > MainView VistaPoint(*)
. Sessions . Region Detail > CICS Automation (*)
. Regions on same MVS > MVS Analysis (*)
. Monitor Analysis . 2 Hour Region Analysis
. Workload Objectives . Return ...
(*) Requires associated
BMC AMI Ops productNow that window 1 is set to Plex Manager and window 2 is set to BMC AMI Ops Monitor for CICS, you can display both product's views simultaneously.
- Try to display the CSERV view in Window 1 by entering w1;cmon.An error message is displayed, stating that the view is not found because the context of the window is set for Plex Manager rather than BMC AMI Ops Monitor for CICS.
Make sure the CURR WIN field shows the correct window number for the product view you want to display. If you try to display a BMC AMI Ops Monitor for CICS view in window 1, or a PLEX MANAGER view in window 2, you will get an error message because you are in the wrong context for the product. Press Enter to get rid of the error message and bring the PLEX view back in window 1.
Although window 1 did not show the BMC AMI Ops Monitor for CICS CSERV view, it did become the active window. Step 9 Enter w2 to reset window 2 as the active window.Enter w2 to reset window 2 as the active window.
- Place a 1 in the ALT WIN field, but do not press Enter. You are going to reverse the steps that you did earlier. Window 1 is going to be the hyperlink destination from a view that you select from the BMC AMI Ops Monitor for CICS MAIN view shown in window 2.
Display the CMON view by entering CMON on the COMMAND line.
18DEC2000 06:56:30 ----------- INFORMATION DISPLAY ---------------------------
COMMAND ===> SCROLL ===> PAGE
CURR WIN ===> 2 ALT WIN ===>
>W1 -PLEX--------------SJSD-----*--------18DEC2000--06:52:23----PLEXMGR-------8
C Product Context System Description Status
- -------- -------- -------- ---------------------------------------- -------
MVCICS CICS4103 CSVT added by vt on 10/20/00 Defined
MVCICS CICS4102 CSVT added by vt on 10/20/00 Defined
MVCICS CICVT411 SJSD BMC AMI Ops Monitor for CICS Active
MVCICS CICS4102 SJSD BMC AMI Ops Monitor for CICS Active
MVVP CICVT411 SJSD MainView VistaPoint Active
MVVP IMS51X SJSD MainView VistaPoint Active
MVVP CICS4102 SJSD MainView VistaPoint Active
PLEXMGR SJSD SJSD Target Manager Active
W2 =CMON==============CICVT411=*========18DEC2000==06:56:30====MVCICS========1
CMD Target Actv Number in Warn Avg % Warning Maximum
--- -------- Mntrs 0.....10....20 0.....50...100 % Warning
CICVT411 46 0 8.7 92.2You can always switch between BMC AMI Ops products by selecting them the Plex Manager PLEX view. The next section shows how to switch between products directly without going through PLEX MANAGER.
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