Hello all you smart seasoned ZOS vets out there. We all know that ZOS contains a vast landscape of key mission critical applications and components running 7x24x365. I'm quite curious about this sujbect having spent a considerable time of my career in the performance / capacity arena. But what I am most curious about is whether anyone out there has either developed or knows of a very robust homegrown ZOS mgmt / executive health dashboard out there? Possibly you did something with SAS/MXG or other toolsets (REXX, open source, etc.)? I'm envisioning something that might have red, yellow, green sections that inspects data for ZOS ranging from SLA's, syslog, SMF data, performance data (response times, batch cycle completions, etc.), storage usage data, security data and have it all rollup into single view that is adaptable to a particular environment (not tied to anyone product - so for instance in security whatever solutions should be ubiquitous whether running RACF, Top Secret, or ACF2). I know there are paid for tools as well and if you don't have anything homegrown maybe you have a favorite one of those that doesn't cost arm & leg? - possibly something open source that is easily adaptable.
There is no right or wrong answer here but wanted to just throw this out there to gather everyone's collective experiences, thoughts, and best ideas. May the games (I mean ideations) begin. Thanks, Steve Estle ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
