Getting started
This topic provides an overview of BMC AMI Ops Monitor for IP. It also describes the features and functions provided by BMC AMI Ops Monitor for IP that enable monitoring and management of TCP/IP stacks through configurable views.
You can use the BMC AMI Ops Monitor for IP utility to monitor IBM z/OS mission-critical application performance.
BMC AMI Ops Monitor for IP collects data from the TCP/IP stack and displays it as configurable views in the BMC AMI Ops console. You can monitor applications by job name, IP address, and port, and analyze which enterprise resources have priority access to critical data. You can also configure data collection to allow filtering, which enables you to view this information (but not to change it).
The following table describes the features and functions available in BMC AMI Ops Monitor for IP that enable monitoring and management of TCP/IP stacks via configurable views:
Feature or function | Description |
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Actions | Initiates specific actions in a view, such as dropping a connection, pinging a device, or performing a traceroute |
Activity | Displays information about the availability and activity of application and stack connections |
Availability monitoring | Provides a single view from which you can monitor critical resources, such as applications, devices, links, and other resources |
Availability ping | Allows you to ping an IP network device automatically to determine its availability and provide device response times |
Configuration | Displays configuration information by TCP, UDP, IP, SMF, and port |
Connections | Displays information about the devices that are connected to an application by domain name, IP address, and remote port number |
Diagnostics | Displays information about a ping or a traceroute that you requested; performs packet tracing and socket tracing |
Dynamic VIPA | Displays information about Dynamic Virtual IP Addresses (DVIPA) |
Enterprise extender | Displays information for Enterprise Extenders (EEs) shipped through the UDP protocol and information for Rapid Transfer Protocol (RTP) pipes that are used by Enterprise Extenders |
FTP Server | Displays FTP Server statistics and configuration information |
HiperSockets | Displays detailed views for applications that use hipersockets, such as devices, links, routes, sessions, and channel data |
Historical data | Displays information about previous performance (to compare with current performance) |
Interfaces | Displays information about network devices, network links, and Open Systems Adapter (OSA) cards |
IPv6 | Displays IP addresses along 16-bit boundaries, with each 16-bit block converted to a 4-digit hexadecimal number separated by colons An IP address is 128 bits or 16 bytes long. In contrast to IPv6, IPv4 displays IP addresses in dotted decimal format. The IPv6 feature is available in every view that contains an IP address field. |
IP pacing | Delays (or "paces") outbound data from any TCP/IP application to provide more processing time to business-critical applications and displays information about applications that have been paced |
IPSec | Displays IP security and defensive filtering configuration information for the TCP/IP stack |
Name Resolver | Displays the Name Resolver configuration information |
Open Systems Adapter | Gathers data about Open Systems Adapter (OSA) devices You can view OSA configuration information, utilization statistics, network device details, network link details, and ethernet-like statistics. |
Packet and socket tracing | Provides sophisticated packet and socket tracing capabilities that can be dynamically started and stopped You can filter by protocol type, IP address, source port, and destination port. You can view packet header information in both a formatted and unformatted display. You can also view a subset of the actual packet data in hexadecimal dump format. |
Routes and OSPF | Provides information about all routes as well as statistics and parameters related to OSPF |
Shared Memory Communications | Displays configuration and statistics for Shared Memory Communications |
SNMP data collection | Displays performance information about TCP, UDP, IP, system, interface router, OSPF, CISCO router, and network routes for every IP node that you specify |
Security | Displays information about the Intrusion Detection Services (IDS), which enables detecting attacks and applying defensive mechanisms on the z/OS server |
Service levels | Displays information about application availability and your web servers to help ensure that you are meeting your service level agreements |
Storage | Displays statistics from the following areas about buffer pools and storage usage:
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Threshold/alarm conditions | Allow you to add visual indicators that use color or highlighting to instantly show when resources are reaching a critical state |
TN3270 Server | Displays TN3270 Server connections and configuration information |
Trace analyzer | Provides detailed packet analysis of TLS handshake messages, FTP, and Telnet data |
Traffic/response times | Displays information about the amount of data that is being sent and received (and connection detail), and displays information about host and network response times by station (IP address or domain name), port, subnet, or TN3270 session |
VTAM session data collection | Collects and displays VTAM session information, and session awareness (SAW) data. It also collects VTAM PIUs |
VTAM PPO data | Collects and displays VTAM messages collected through the VTAM Primary Program Operator |
VTAM Resources | Collects and displays VTAM resources, and allows actions to be performed against each VTAM resource |
zERT (z/OS Encryption Readiness Technology) | Collects and displays encryption data for every connection, and collects and displays data summary for each client-server pair at each SMF interval |