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BMC AMI Ops User Interface is a modern, web-based interface designed to help organizations monitor, manage, and automate mainframe operations. It provides a centralized, intuitive platform that integrates data from various BMC AMI Ops components. This enables faster issue detection, improved performance, and reduced operational costs.

Key concepts

Using BMC AMI Ops User Interface, you can:

  • Access alarm information.
  • Visualize the View data in tables, detailed formats, and historical trend analysis charts.
  • Create analytics dashboards to examine current and projected trends. 

  • Access BMC AMI Ops Insight product for real-time monitoring of your environment and alerting for proactive issue resolution. For more information about BMC AMI Ops Insight, see BMC AMI Ops Insight online documentation.

BMC AMI Ops architecture

The following diagram describes the different components and architecture of BMC AMI Ops User Interface.

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BMC AMI Ops Monitor, BMC AMI Ops Insight, BMC AMI Ops Analytics Datastore, and BMC AMI Ops Analytics Agent services sign in with the BMC AMI Ops UI Discovery server as they come online. 

When a user logs in to BMC AMI Ops User Interface, the BMC AMI Ops UI Server authenticates the user. It then connects to the BMC AMI Ops UI Discovery server to get a list of registered services and verifies which services the user can access. The user interface is built based on the services that the user can access.

Subsequent communication is then directly between BMC AMI Ops User Interface and the relevant services.

Components

BMC AMI Ops User Interface uses the following components:

Component

Description

BMC AMI Ops Monitor Server

Retrieves data from multiple BMC AMI Ops Monitor products, including views, dashboard, alarms, and containers.

BMC AMI Ops UI Server

Front-end web server for the BMC AMI Ops products that manages authentication and acts as a gateway for other BMC AMI Ops products.

BMC AMI Ops UI Discovery server

Enables interaction between different components of the BMC AMI Ops products and maintains a list of components and their current statuses.

BMC AMI Ops Analytics Datastore

Provides the infrastructure for dashboard capabilities and for storing, processing, and analyzing big data for BMC AMI Ops Monitor products.

BMC AMI Ops Analytics Agent

Collects and processes data from BMC AMI Ops Monitor products and stores it in the BMC AMI Ops Analytics Datastore.

BMC AMI AssistantAI-powered assistant to help you retrieve technical knowledge and perform routine operational tasks by using natural language. For more information, see Enabling BMC AMI Assistant.

Product features

BMC AMI Ops User Interface is installed during the installation of BMC AMI Ops Insight or BMC AMI Ops Monitor products.

You can access BMC AMI Ops Monitor data by connecting to a BMC AMI Ops service. A BMC AMI Ops service (also known as the BMC AMI Ops Host Server or Host Server) is part of the BMC AMI Ops Infrastructure used to access BMC AMI Ops monitored environments.

You can access BMC AMI Ops Insight events if you have BMC AMI Ops Insight version 2.0 or later installed. 

The BMC AMI Ops User Interface appears differently depending on the products you have installed. The following table describes the differences:

Feature

Description

BMC AMI Ops User Interface

 

BMC AMI Ops Monitor component

Alarms Overview

  • Opening screen—Alarms Overview page
  • Menus—Alarms, Views, Dashboards, Agent Configuration, and Product Health 
  • Footer—Displays clock and time of last refresh (only if BMC AMI Ops host is version 7.0 or later)
  • Clock—Displays the time zone of the server where the BMC AMI Ops host is installed

BMC AMI Ops Analytics component - Dashboard

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  • Opening screen—Dashboards page
  • Menus—Dashboards, Agent Configuration, and Product Health

BMC AMI Ops Insight

BMC AMI Ops Insight console

BMC AMI Ops Insight

  • Opening screen—Active Events page
  • Menus—Events, System Status, Alarms, Views, Dashboards, Administration, and Product Health 
  • Footer—Current BMC AMI Ops Insight status, clock, time of last ingestion, and refresh rate
  • Clock—Displays the time zone of the Db2 data being ingested

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BMC AMI Ops User Interface 3.0