Using Alarm Management

 provides the  product family with the ability to perform true management by exception.

 creates alarm reports based on performance goals that are continuously monitored. When a performance goal is not within acceptable parameters, an alarm report is created. An alert can be created based on the report to trigger an automated action.

 monitors multiple targets on multiple systems simultaneously. You can display a single view that shows alerts for all  performance monitors within your MVS enterprise. Using alarm definitions, any data element from any  product can be used to generate alarm reports based on user-defined thresholds that trigger the following actions:

• Create MVS console messages
• Create an alarm report that can be processed by 
• Call 
• Call Control-O
• Issue user defined MVS console command

For more information, see the following sections: