Hi, Several sites use one of our automation products (SyzCMD/z) to monitor, on a 1 to 5 minute interval, all tasks in the system (whether up or not) and generate a file, which is uploaded to IDERA Uptime. IDERA is able to get almost everything else in their networks, (except for the mainframe stuff), so we populate a small file in the format that IDERA uses, and it gets loaded up on the frequency that they want to report on. A lot of sites start out with every 10 seconds or so, then find out that every few minutes (normally 5) is sufficient because IDERA isn't all that quick about checking everything else. The overhead to the mainframe is extremely trivial and uses just a few seconds of CPU time per day, most of which I think is for FTP.
Then they use IDERA to populate some screens that show the UP or DOWN stuff along with the amount of uptime they have had and it's all available via the normal IDERA page. Some sites (who don't have IDERA) use the same method to generate their own web page. We can build the file in HTTP format and I think they simply display the file on whatever interval they want directly from their internal web page. Still others use this method to generate a USS file (still in HTML or XML) and push it to their users, and finally some sites just process the interval files with SAS or something similar and generate Uptime reports on whatever frequency they want. The SyzCMD/z script used is a never ending one that simply scans for the address spaces that they are interested in, and reports the factors that they want, i.e. UP, DOWN, TRANSITIONING (up or down), and some of them want things reported from NETSTATS and TN3270 (which are also performed via SyzCMD/z and sent inside the same FTP). They start the script at IPL and can stop it at any time, but normally it runs until the next IPL. As an example, one of the sites (a university in California) that runs this type of script on a 5 minute interval (24x7) has used 37.58 seconds of CPU time since their last change to the script in August of 2018. They use it to report on 5 Adabas regions, 22 Broker regions, 15 Natural Servers, several COM-PLete regions, HSM, TCPIP, VTAM, 11 CICS regions, and a bunch of minor stuff that they run. It's just one more of the many-many uses for SyzCMD/z (kind of a marketing-hype type sentence there.:) You can contact me offline or just go to our web site ( https://www.syzygyinc.com/SyzCMDz.htm ). The normal price for SyzCMD/z is $7.5K, but there is a 50% discount for current Share members. If you are not part of Share, you can still get a 30% discount for being part of IBM-MAIN. I'm not sure what IDERA costs, but if you write your own web interface it's unimportant what that cost is. There are probably other products that do what the IDERA one does as well, I have never checked into it. Brian Westerman ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
