If your z/OS installation uses Netview, TIBCO Object Service Broker can connect to Netview and provide it with data to facilitate your operations management. This chapter discusses the extent of Netview support within TIBCO Object Service Broker, the information it provides to Netview, and the requirements for interoperation between TIBCO Object Service Broker and Netview.
To effectively manage your network of computers, it is important to monitor critical events, expected or unexpected, that occur within the subsystems operating within the network. The Data Object Broker is one of those subsystems that supports the management of your network operations by keeping you informed of key events occurring within it. TIBCO Object Service Broker provides the following levels of information in the operational messages it creates:
log,
informational,
warning,
error, and
alert.
The most severe operational messages are alert messages. They indicate a major function failure or serious error condition (for example, a redolog failure). Most alert messages, such as those that pertain to error situations, require intervention because they indicate occurrences that impede normal operation of the Data Object Broker. The sooner an alert condition is corrected, the less impact it has on users.
Alert messages are written to the SYSLOG with all other messages and are saved on a special
ALERT page in the Pagestore, which can be viewed using option W from the Administration menu. Refer to
W. Alert Messages for more information about using this option. In addition, TIBCO Object Service Broker optionally supports Netview by sending alert messages to Netview to be highlighted for your operations staff.
Netview alerts quickly communicate information to operations staff. TIBCO Object Service Broker supplies its messages to Netview, which displays them in a series of screens, described below.
The following table contains a brief overview of Netview services used to present TIBCO Object Service Broker alerts. Refer to the appropriate Netview documentation for a complete description of operations and use.