MainView Alarm Manager
MainView for IP is a tool that, with other MainView products, notifies you when exception conditions occur. You can display a single view that shows exceptions for all MainView performance monitors within your MVS enterprise.
MainView Alarm Manager can monitor multiple systems simultaneously. Any data element on any MainView product can be used to generate alarms that produce the following results:
- Create MVS console or subsystem messages
- Display messages in a MainView Alarm Manager view that let you hyperlink to the MainView product that produced the exception
- Trigger an automated alert or action from MainView AutoOPERATOR for quick problem resolution
MainView Alarm Manager will generate alarms when thresholds from specific MainView product views are exceeded. Alarms can be based on summarized data from multiple systems and subsystems that use the MainView single system image (SSI) capabilities.
Using MainView Alarm Manager, you can create and modify alarm definitions that display meaningful messages for your site’s requirements. Alarms can be set for any severity level, from informational to critical.
Threshold conditions are defined as one of the following priority levels:
- Information
- Warning
- Minor
- Major
- Critical
Sample alarms and threshold conditions are provided in many MainView for IP views. You can use color or highlighting to add visual indicators to display data that instantly shows when resources are reaching a critical state. For more information about thresholds and MainView Alarm Manager, seeMainView Infrastructure.