Top 10 OMEGAMON XE Tips for

Tivoli Enterprise Portal

Ernie Gilman
IBM
August 3rd 2010
Session 7984

What is the TEP?

Tivoli Enterprise Portal (TEP)
Common user interface

Manage z/OS and distributed resources from a single browser interface.

Displays data in graphs, charts and table formats
View real time and historical data, at the same time

Easy to configure, right from the TEP

Out of the box Best Practices

Workspaces, Situations, and Expert Advice

Agenda: Leveraging the TEP

TEP top 10 TIPs

Benefit

Cross LPAR Views

View all LPARs in one View

Creating a New Navigator View

Organize workspaces by user and problem

Cross Application Workspaces

Integrate many views into one

Eliminate Multiple pages

Compact simplified views

Filter Queries

Faster Views

Customizing Tables and Charts

Highlight only what you need to see

Situations

Alert only on problems that need action

Topology

Verify Installation fix levels and connectivity

Built-in Tutorials

TEP Online Education

Tuning and ITMSUPER

Tune OMEGAMON Infrastructure

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Integrated with the TEP

z/OS Health check

z/OS Management Console

z/OS & USS

OMEGAMON XE on z/OS

NetView for z/OS

IBM Tivoli NetView for z/OS V5.4

Network

OMEGAMON XE for Mainframe Networks

DB2

OMEGAMON XE for DB2 PE/PM

CICS

OMEGAMON XE for CICS

IMS
Storage
WebSphere MQ

OMEGAMON XE for IMS

OMEGAMON XE for Storage
OMEGAMON XE for Messaging

WebSphere Appl Server

ITCAM for WAS

z/VM & Linux on z

OMEGAMON XE on z/VM and Linux

Distributed Monitoring
Automation
DFSMS Audit
Catalog Management
SMF trend analysis Reports
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IBM Tivoli Monitoring (ITM) & ITCAM

SA for z/OS
Advanced Audit for DFSMShsm
Advanced Catalog Management for z/OS
Tivoli Decision Support for z/OS

TEP

OMEGAMON XE TEP Infrastructure

OMEGAMON Agents
Agents
Agents
Agents

Agents

TEMS

Agents
Agents
Agents

Agents

Agents
Agents
Agents

Agents

TEMS

TEMS

IBM Tivoli Monitoring (ITM)

Agents
Agents
Agents
Agents

Query
Filters

Tivoli
Enterprise
Management
Server
(TEMS) HUB

Queries

Tivoli
Enterprise
Portal
Server
(TEPS)

Tivoli
Enterprise
Portal
(TEP)

View
Filters

TEP - Terminology

View

Navigator
View

Workspace

Leveraging the TEP - Agenda

1. Cross LPAR Views
2. Creating a New Navigator View
3. Cross Application Workspaces
4. Eliminate Multiple pages
5. Reduce Query data
6. Customizing Tables and Charts
7. Situations
8. Topology
9. Built-in tutorials
10. Tuning and ITMSUPER
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Cross LPAR View - Overview

MVSA

MVSB

MVSC

MVSA
MVSB
MVSC

Example: OMEGAMON XE on z/OS

Default Physical drill down to see one LPAR at a time

Cross LPAR View Example

New Navigator View

1.Edit Navigator Views

2. Create a New Navigator View

3.Populate new Navigator view

Drag and drop

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Choose attributes to graph

1.Select new Navigator view

2.Attribute to be graphed

3.Remember Query of Attribute to be

graphed
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Select type of graph

1.Select Graph type
(drag and drop)

2.Assign Query

3.Assign Systems
(default)
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Assign Attribute to Graph

2.Assign What to Graph

1.See Data to be Graphed

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Customize Graph

1.Enter Name of window

CPU Utilization

2.Assign axis to display

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Add Views and Save

Workspace

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Chart Customization
1.Select attributes
3.Title of View

Change bar chart into a stacked bar chart

4.Choose axis
2.Stacked 3D bar chart
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Save Workspace

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Select Workspace

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Chart Customization AutoRefesh

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Recommended Workplaces
OMEGAMONon z/OS
CPU Utilizaiton for all LPARs
Top Jobs by CPU for all LPARs
OMEGAMON for DB2
Top Thread Exceptions for all DBs all LPARs
OMEGAMON MFN
IPStack Status all stacks
All HPR with ABR Yellow or Red for all Stacks
Worst TCP/IP Connection Response times all Stacks
FTPs by duration and bytes
OMEGAMON on z/VM and Linux
Top Linux CPU and Memory for all systems
OMEGAMON CICS
Region overview cross system
Dumps cross Region and LPAR
Top Transactions by CPU cross system cross LPAR

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DB2 Thread Exceptions

Thread Exceptions across all systems
Elapsed time
Overlay CPU Time

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z/VM and Linux

Linux CPU across all systems
From z/VMs view and Linux OS view
Highest Process CPU

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OMEGAMON for MFN

FTPs Duration overlaid by bytes transmitted
TCP/IP Connection response time overlaid by segments retransmitted

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Leveraging the TEP - Agenda

1. Cross LPAR Views
2. Creating a New Navigator View
3. Cross Application Workspaces
4. Eliminate Multiple pages
5. Reduce Query data
6. Customizing Tables and Charts
7. Situations
8. Topology
9. Built-in tutorials
10. Tuning and ITMSUPER
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Cross IP-STACK Example

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View all aspects of one Applications

OMEGAMON XE for CICS z/OS
OMEGAMON XE on z/OS
OMEGAMON XE for Mainframe Networks

System Automation for z/OS

Tivoli Decision Support for z/OS
(SMF RECORDS)

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Leveraging the TEP - Agenda

1. Cross LPAR Views
2. Creating a New Navigator View
3. Cross Application Workspaces
4. Eliminate Multiple pages
5. Reduce Query data
6. Customizing Tables and Charts
7. Situations
8. Topology
9. Built-in tutorials
10. Tuning and ITMSUPER
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Multiple Page Views

Multiple page tables

Sorts only works one page at a time
Limited performance savings
If too many rows, then limit query with a filter

Agents
Agents
Agents
Agents

LPAR

Tivoli
Enterprise
Management
Server
(TEMS) HUB

Query results

Distributed Server
Tivoli
Enterprise
Portal
Server
(TEPS)

Desktop
Tivoli
Enterprise
Portal
(TEP)

Number of Rows (100)

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Increase number of rows

Properties

Multi-Page Chart

Increase Rows

Single Page Chart

Save Workspace

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Changing Default Rows

Change cnp.databus.pageSize on TEP

Number of rows to fetch in a single logical page
Increase from default 100 rows
See ITM Admin Guide SC32-9408
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Leveraging the TEP - Agenda

1. Cross LPAR Views
2. Creating a New Navigator View
3. Cross Application Workspaces
4. Eliminate Multiple pages
5. Reduce Query data
6. Customizing Tables and Charts
7. Situations
8. Topology
9. Built-in tutorials
10. Tuning and ITMSUPER
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Limit data from agents

Apply Filter at TEPS in Workspace Properties
Agents
Agents
Agents
Agents

LPAR

Tivoli
Enterprise
Management
Server
(TEMS) HUB

1000 Rows

Distributed Server
Tivoli
Enterprise
Portal
Server
(TEPS)

Filter in
Workspace

Desktop
Tivoli
Enterprise
Portal
(TEP)

10 Pages

Or Apply Filter at Agent with Custom Query

Agent

Filter in Query

80 Rows
TEPS

1 Page
80 Rows

Desktop

1000 Rows reduced to 80

Reduced overhead
Faster Response Time
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Add Filter to Copy of Query

1. Modify Copy of Query

2. Filter (Response Time > 10ms)

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Limiting Queries Save Workspace

10 Pages 1000 Rows

Query Filter (Response time > 10ms)

Agent
Filter in Query

80 Rows

1 Page 80 Rows

TEPS

1 Page
80 Rows

Desktop

1,000 Rows Reduced to 80

Reduced overhead
Faster Response time.
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Leveraging the TEP - Agenda

1. Cross LPAR Views
2. Creating a New Navigator View
3. Cross Application Workspaces
4. Eliminate Multiple pages
5. Reduce Query data
6. Customizing Tables and Charts
7. Topology
8. Situations
9. Built-in tutorials
10. Tuning and ITMSUPER
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Situations and thresholds

View Thresholds can be used to highlight attributes of potential problems.
Note: You will only see these if you are looking at the Table View

Out of the box situations to proactively notify you.

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Table Customization Thresholds

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Add View Thresholds

Highlight tables with threshold

Lock columns to make easer to read when scrolling
Quick navigation to thresholds
Sort by selecting title of any column
Save workspace to remember settings
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Overlays Helps Correlate

1
2

3
4

Available with ITM 6.2.1 or later

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Leveraging the TEP - Agenda

1. Cross LPAR Views
2. Creating a New Navigator View
3. Cross Application Workspaces
4. Eliminate Multiple pages
5. Reduce Query data
6. Customizing Tables and Charts
7. Situations
8. Topology
9. Built-in tutorials

10. Tuning and ITMSUPER

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Locate Started Situations

Identify Unnecessary Situations

In this example, Crypto is NOT installed

1.
2.

List Situations by Application, one application at a time

See which Situation are automatically started
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Turn off unnecessary Situations

List all Situations defined

1. Stop situation
2. Uncheck Run at startup
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Leveraging the TEP - Agenda

1. Cross LPAR Views
2. Creating a New Navigator View
3. Cross Application Workspaces
4. Eliminate Multiple pages
5. Reduce Query data
6. Customizing Tables and Charts
7. Situations
8. Topology
9. Built-in tutorials
10. Tuning and ITMSUPER

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Check configuration of Infrastructure

Table

See Tivoli Management Infrastructure

TEMS, TEPS, Agents, TDW and Proxy

Last Heartbeat, Version, IP Address

CQ = TEPS
EM = TEMS

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Check configuration and versions

Last Heartbeat
Version
IP Address
N3 OMEGAMON for Mainframe Networks
M5 OMEGAMON ON z/OS
EM TEMS
V6.x for ITM and Infrastructure
V4.x for OMEGAMON Agents
+ Drill down

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Leveraging the TEP - Agenda

1. Cross LPAR Views
2. Creating a New Navigator View
3. Cross Application Workspaces
4. Eliminate Multiple pages
5. Reduce Query data
6. Customizing Tables and Charts
7. Situations
8. Topology
9. Built-in tutorials
10. Tuning and ITMSUPER

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Built-in Tutorials

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Leveraging the TEP - Agenda

1. Cross LPAR Views
2. Creating a New Navigator View
3. Cross Application Workspaces
4. Eliminate Multiple pages
5. Reduce Query data
6. Customizing Tables and Charts
7. Situations
8. Topology
9. Built-in tutorials
10. Tuning and ITMSUPER

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Tuning TEP Summary

Problem and symptom

Solution

No or missing data on workspaces

Too Many Query targets can result in an error
TEPS variable KFW_REPORT_NODE_LIMIT Defaults to 200

Use group system lists

Such as dynamic ones:

Mismatch of application support files

Run ITMSUPER to isolate mismatch

Default filter within query is hiding data

Look at Query tab on view properties

Change query filter

No response from query to one of the targets

Default query timeout is 10 minutes

Code timeout on query for view

See Technote:

*MVS_SYSTEM, *MVS_CICS, *MVS*DB2

http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21375786

Workspaces are slow

Too many rows being return

Filter with custom query to reduce number of rows

Multiple windows in workspace

Use common query for several windows in

workspaces
All queries to the same agent run serially. But to different agents
they run asynchronously.

Low Java cache

You may see Heap dumps on desktop

Increase java cache size

Top 10 lists and sorts in Query for many rows

Select advance button on query editor

Avoid query sorts, use fixed thresholds

Then Sort within workspace view

See Appendix C in ITM admin Guide

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ITM Super Tool

Here is an awesome tool that all our customers should have to help tune and manage
OMEGAMON and ITM.
In addition to identifying performance issues caused by things like too many situations,
TEPS Analysis will help Identify common problems such as application seed files
being out of sync between the HUB and the TEPS.
The tool is really simple to run since there is nothing to install.
Just unzip it someplace like the TEPS server and it will prompt you.
This can be downloaded from OPAL. Just search on ITMSUPER at:
http://www-01.ibm.com/software/brandcatalog/portal/opal

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ITM Super Tool

See CPU utilization

Situation overhead can be reduced by increasing interval or turning off

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ITM Super Tool

Example of workspace that ties middleware together

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Summary
TEP top 10 TIPs

Benefits

Cross LPAR Views

View all LPARs in one view

Creating a New Navigator View

Organize workspaces by user

Cross Application Workspaces

Combine OMEGAMONs for a given

Application workspace

Eliminate Multiple pages

Allow columns to sort all rows at once

Reduce Query data

Query filter improves performance

Customizing Tables and Charts

View Thresholds to highlight problems

Situations

Turn off unnecessary situations

Topology

View fix levels and connectivity

Built-in Tutorials

TEP Online Education

Tuning and ITMSUPER

Tune OMEGAMON Infrastructure

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TEP Installation Tips

TEP Config Tips If HUB is on z/OS

If Integrated Cryptographic Service Facility (ICSF) is not installed or configured, Then

From Manage Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Services
right-click TEPS and select Advanced
> Edit ENV File Insert USE_EGG1_FLAG=1

Add application support to the HUB TEMS:

From Manage Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Services window, right-click TEPS.
Select the Actions and select Advanced > Add application support to the TEMS

Running ITM on Linux on z

Supports 64 bit on Linux on z with ITM 6.2.1 or later

New Tivoli on z ServerPac on Shopz

Preinstalled datasets with Latest Releases and maintenance

How to downloading ITM code from ShopzSeries

Video on how to download software on ShopzSeries

To order the latest ITM 6.2.2 code for download you should order:
5698-A79 IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS V6.2.2 (5698-S53)

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Product codes
For a complete list of Codes visit:
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21265222
ITM OMEGAMON
Infrastructure

cj Tivoli Enterprise Portal Desktop Client

cw Tivoli Enterprise Portal Browser Client
cq Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server
EM Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server
sy Summarization and Pruning Agent
nt Monitoring Agent for Windows OS

DB2

d5 OMEGAMON XE for PE and PM on z/OS

CICS

c5 OMEGAMON XE for CICS on z/OS

cp OMEGAMON XE for CICSPlex
gw OMEGAMON XE for CICS TG on z/OS

IMS

ip OMEGAMON XE for IMS on z/OS

i2 OMEGAMON II for IMS

z/OS

m5 OMEGAMON XE on z/OS
m2 OMEGAMON II for MVS
hl OMEGAMON z/OS Management Console

SOA & WAS

yn ITCAM for WebSphere

d4 ITCAM for SOA

MQ

mq WebSphere MQ Monitoring Agent

mc WebSphere MQ Configuration Agent

MFN

n3 OMEGAMON XE for Mainframe Networks

on OMEGAMON II for Mainframe Network

zNetView zSA

na IBM Tivoli NetView for z/OS Enterprise Management Agent

ah System Automation for z/OS

Storage

s3 OMEGAMON XE for Storage on z/OS

df OMEGAMON II for SMS
rk IBM Tivoli Automated Tape Allocation Manager
rv IBM Tivoli Advanced Backup and Recovery for z/OS
rw IBM Tivoli Tape Optimizer for z/OS

z/VM Linux

vl OMEGAMON XE on z/VM and Linux

lz Monitoring Agent for Linux OS

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Abstract: Leveraging the TEP

This is an illustration of how simple it is to customize the TEP.

Once you have installed the Tivoli Enterprise Portal

(TEP), there are some simple changes you can
make to dramatically enhance OMEGAMON and
ITMs effectiveness.

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References:
Narrated demos how to Create a cross LPAR workspace::
http://www-01.ibm.com/software/os/systemz/telecon/oct29/prz/
NOTE: Everyone should bookmark this page! Search on:
Recommended Maintenance Service Levels for OMEGAMON XE products on ITM V6.x

CCR2 OMEGAMON Tuning:

www.ibm.com/software/tivoli/features/ccr2/info.html
2004 Issue 2 Part 1: Common data collection overhead reduction tips
2004 Issue 3 Part 2: Reducing on-demand CNPS client overhead
2004 Issue 4 Part 3: OMEGAMON XE for CICS V100 and CICSplex V220
2004 Issue 5 Workload Manager Sysplex Tuning
2004 Issue 6 Part 4: OS/390 and Sysplex from
2004 Issue 7 The DB2 trace facility and OMEGAMON II for DB2 historical collection considerations
2004 Issue 10 How to maintain time-dependent thresholds without the overhead of embedded situations
2005 Issue 6 Sysplex Best Practices Part 1
2005 Issue 7 Sysplex Best Practices Part 2
2006 Issue 2 Part 5: OMEGAMON XE for IMS(plex)
2008 Issue 3 Resource impact and optimization for Tivoli situation event processing

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