Tivoli NetView for z/OS

Maintain the highest degree of availability of your System z™ networks.

NetView provides automation, and network and systems management to address today’s requirement for business agility on System z

System and Network Automation provided by NetView addresses customers continued drive for increased IT availability. As expanding network requirements, such as adding mobile devices, increases the need for a complete network management solution will be increasingly important.

• Provides key capabilities and advanced functions related to networking and automation, enhanced enterprise integration, customer time-to-value and ease of use, as well as management functions that work in cooperation with other products.
• Supports heterogeneous networks that include both SNA and TCP/IP and supports changing network and system requirements that exist on System z. NetView provides the ability through a single console to manage your entire network.
• Tivoli NetView for z/OS V6.1: The latest version of NetView is focused on enhanced problem determination and management to increase operations efficiency and effectiveness.
• NetView V6.1 provides high availability and automation enhancements for improving overall system availability.
• NetView V6.1 has new Canzlog functionality that provides faster problem solving with network and system log browsing and enhanced automation with new consolidated message logging capability.
• NetView V6.1 provides improved problem diagnostics and management with new packet tracking and analysis capability.
• NetView V6.1 supplies improved enterprise resiliency for continuous availability combined with GDPS Active/Active support.

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Features, advantages and benefits

Features	Advantages	Benefits
Consolidated log (Canzlog) browse capability includes expanded access to message attributes on individual messages. Robust filtering is easily applied to retrieve desired log records based on a large selection of factors including time range, jobname, JobID, message ID, address space type, domain, authorization identities and groups, automation token, user settable attributes, or combinations of these values.	Logging and browsing functions are greatly enhanced to provide consolidated access to all NetView, system, and job messages.	Provides improved visibility to system activities, and faster problem resolution.
Packet trace: The NetView IP packet trace function allows for packet trace session analysis, individual connections can be dropped and the packet trace data can be saved for later retrieval or further analysis. PKTTRACE command can be used via the command line, timer, or automated to start and stop traces and select trace criteria.	Analyze the data in a packet trace to identify potential network and system problems. PKTTRACE command simplifies tracing by automatically starting any required trace components.	Significantly reduces the time needed for problem identification and diagnosis.
IP Subnet and z/OS: Updated MultiSystem Manager agent more tightly integrated with IBM Tivoli OMNibus and Tivoli NetWork Manager. The MultiSystem Manager agent for IBM Tivoli OMNibus and IBM Tivoli Network Manager in NetView gathers views and relationships and loads them into the NetView for z/OS Resource Object Data Manager (RODM) data cache. These resources can then be viewed and managed from the NetView Management Console (NMC).	Provides improved visibility to your distributed environment from z/OS.	This integration allows for better view, creation, and display of network relationships.
Discovery Library Adapter (DLA): The DLA can now gather sysplex, z/OS system, and distributed resource information stored in RODM and collected by NetView's discovery manager function or MultiSystem Manager agent for IBM Tivoli Network Manager..	Better utilize z/OS data in the RODM data cache.	Using the DLA provides monitoring and visibility to your system for improved distributed and z/OS utilization.
Support for zEnterprise: New interface and OSA Channel types specific to the zEnterprise platform. This new data is available for display through the NetView Management Console, Tivoli Enterprise Console® workspaces, or 3270 commands.	Provides information on the zEnterprise platform.	Moving to the zEnterprise provides new hybrid capabilities.
Support for GDPS Active/Active Continuous Availability solution:. The NetView program provides monitoring capability for workload status and other managed elements in the solution and automation in response to designated conditions.	GDPS Active/Active solution significantly increases system and workload resiliency.	Reducing the time to recovery in disaster situations.

• Analysis and automation of z/OS system, NetView, and job log messages via a consolidated log (Canzlog) for both real time and archived messages.

• Built-in analysis of packet trace data that reduces diagnostics time.

• Support for zEnterprise hardware.

• Support for Dynamic Virtual IP Address Hot Standby distribution.

• Tighter integration with IBM Tivoli Network Manager.

• Enhanced NetView Discovery Library Adapter (DLA) for sysplex, z/OS system, and IP data.

• Support for GDPS® Active/Active continuous availability solution.

• Usability and consistency updates for the NetView Management Console.

• Updated configuration style sheet report generator to aid in migration

• Improve network efficiency and increase system availability

• Extend centralized management for mainframe TCP/IP and SNA network environments

• Reduce or eliminate the need for operator intervention to deal with system messages

• Manages larger networks, more resources and more systems with fewer resources and personnel. Control can be consolidated at a single console if desired.