Implementing Automatic Restart Manager (ARM)


The Automatic Restart Manager (ARM) is an IBM facility that allows the IBM z/OS product to automatically restart Started Tasks (excluding TSO users) after an abnormal termination occurs. By implementing support for ARM, you can ensure that BMC AMI Ops Automation is restarted quickly and automatically after an abend with no operator intervention required.

Previously, to ensure 

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 availability, you had to use a second 

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 system to monitor the primary 

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 PAS or use an outboard processing facility. If the primary 

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 abended, user-defined automation routines in the secondary 

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 (or outboard facility) would attempt to restart the product.

ARM eliminates the need for a secondary BMC AMI OpsA PAS (or outboard facility ) to monitor BMC AMI OpsA availability and can simplify restarts by allowing MVS to monitor and restart the product. 

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