1. © 2008 IBM Corporation Tivoli OMEGAMON XE on Z/VM and Linux Wayne Bucek Tivoli Consulting IT Specialist wbucek@us.ibm.com

2. © 2008 IBM Corporation 2 Agenda  Background  Integrated Monitoring –Why ? –A monitoring infrastructure  Workspaces  New Features  Demo

3. © 2008 IBM Corporation 3 In the Beginning …. When was the beginning?

4. © 2008 IBM Corporation 4 OMEGAMON for z/VM – 5000 foot View CP Control Blocks Application Data VM Events *MONITOR System Service MONDCSS Segment VCollect Utility 3270 OMEGAMON Classic IUCV

5. © 2008 IBM Corporation 5 OMEGAMON XE on z/VM and Linux  Provides performance monitoring for z/VM and Linux guests  Linux agents gather performance data from Linux guests  z/VM agent gathers performance data from z/VM –Uses IBM Performance Toolkit for VM as its data source  Executes automated actions in response to defined events or situations

6. © 2008 IBM Corporation 6 CP Control Blocks Application Data VM Events *MONITOR System Service MONDCSS Segment MONWRITE Utility Performance Toolkit Raw Monwrite History Files TCP/IP Network DCSS SEGOUT LINUX Guest 3270 Browser OMEGAMON XE VMRM TEMS VM Agent OMEGAMON XE Agent Overview - 5,000 Foot View

7. © 2008 IBM Corporation 7 Scenario—System Running Slowly System is running slowly. Check workload workspace to see if any particular user is hogging the CPU.

8. © 2008 IBM Corporation 8 Intuitive Built-in Navigation Predefined Link to take You directly To the Process workspace

9. © 2008 IBM Corporation 9 Identify Hi CPU Consumers See if there is a process which is using too much CPU

10. © 2008 IBM Corporation10 Kill the offending workload You can issue a Take Action command to stop the offending process

11. © 2008 IBM Corporation11

12. 12 System Automation for z/OS 3.1 Composite Application Manager for R.T. Tracking V6.1 NetView on z/OS v5.2 IBM Tivoli Monitoring v6.21 OMEGAMON XE on z/VM & Linux v4.1.2 OMEGAMON XE for IMS v4.1.0 Composite Application Manager for WebSphere V6.1 Composite Application Manager for SOA V6.1 Workload Scheduler for z/OS 8.3 OMEGAMON XE for DB2 PE/PM v4.1.0 OMEGAMON XE for Storage v4.1.0 OMEGAMON XE for MF Networks v4.1.0 OMEGAMON XE for CICS v4.1.0 Executive Dashboard Service Level Reporting End to End Management from Tivoli OMEGAMON XE on z/OS v4.1.0 IBM Tivoli Business Service Mgmt v4.2 IBM Tivoli Service Level Adv v2.1

13. © 2008 IBM Corporation13 Application View

14. © 2008 IBM Corporation14 Tivoli Enterprise Portal Fully Customizable GUI Intelligent Linking Personalized Views Easy to use Browser controls Persistent customized workspaces View Zoom Selectable Chart Options Splitter controls Navigation Tree

15. © 2008 IBM Corporation15 OMEGAMON XE Architecture Overview Local Cache Agents TEMS Hub TEPS TEPS DB TEMS Data (Built in operational DB) Warehouse TEP Browser or Desktop Monitoring Infrastructure TEMS Data Remote TEMS Local Cache Agents Key: TEP – Tivoli Enterprise Portal TEPS – Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server TDW – Tivoli Data Warehouse TEMS –Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server TEMA –Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Agent

16. © 2008 IBM Corporation16 z/VM Systems default workspace

17. © 2008 IBM Corporation17 Available Performance Metrics z/VM  z/VM Linux Default Workspace  PAGING and SPOOLING Utilization  DASD  LPAR Utilization  NETWORK Utilization (Hiper Socket and Virtual Switch)  REAL STORAGE Utilization  TCPIP Utilization – Server  TCPIP Utilization – Users  SYSTEM Utilization  System Terminal Workspace  Workload (z/VM User ID) Activity  Linux Workload Workspace  ApplData Workspace Linux  Linux OS  Capacity Usage  Disk Usage  File Information  Network  Process  System Information  Users

18. © 2008 IBM Corporation18 LPAR Utilization (z/VM)

19. © 2008 IBM Corporation19 SYSTEM Utilization (z/VM)

20. © 2008 IBM Corporation20 WORKLOAD (z/VM User ID) Activity

21. © 2008 IBM Corporation21 System Information (Linux)

22. © 2008 IBM Corporation22 Processes (Linux)

23. © 2008 IBM Corporation23 Automation Using Situations  Situations alert when thresholds are exceeded –Each condition compares a user-specified value against attribute data collected from managed systems  Each situation may examine the values of one or more attributes  If all conditions are met, the situation evaluates to true and an alert indicator icon appears on the TEP to let you know that a problem exists  When you create a situation, you can also specify recommended actions (Expert Advice) and/or automated responses to take place when the situation becomes true (Take Action)  Each management agent comes with a set of pre-defined situations that start running as soon as the management agent is connected

24. © 2008 IBM Corporation24 Event Management Workspace Initial Cause Current State Expert Advice Take action to fix the problem

25. © 2008 IBM Corporation25 Situation Editor Initial Cause Current State Expert Advice Take action to fix the problem

26. © 2008 IBM Corporation26 New and Modified Workspaces V4.1.2  Default z/VM Systems  Default z/VM Linux Systems (modified)  DASD Workspaces –DASD Cache –DASD Control Unit Cache –Virtual Disks  System Workspaces –Spin Locks  Processor Data  Enhanced Virtual Switch Data (modified)

27. © 2008 IBM Corporation27 Virtual Switch Performance 25 New Attributes

28. © 2008 IBM Corporation28 New Tivoli Common Reporting (TCR)  TCR reports available on the OPAL website –http://www-18.lotus.com/wps/portal/topalhttp://www-18.lotus.com/wps/portal/topal  What is TCR? –Tivoli Common Reporting –Consistent approach to viewing and administering reports –Built on top of open source reporting tool called: BIRT –Flexible development environment (Eclipse based) for creating report definitions –Five templates provided for download –Taking suggestions for more

29. © 2008 IBM Corporation29 Sample Reports Available  z/VM VM System CPU Utilization  z/VM VM System Paging Utilization  z/VM Linux System CPU Utilization  z/VM VM System CP-Owned Device Utilization  z/VM VM System TCP Server Statistics

30. © 2008 IBM Corporation30

31. 31 Summary – OMEGAMON XE on z/VM and Linux  Part of the IBM Tivoli and OMEGAMON family of products  Specific focus on performance of z/VM and Linux guests  Breadth and depth of available metrics  Single workstation to view alerts and perform situational analysis  Automated actions in response to defined events  Continued investment and enhancement

32. IBM Software © 2008 IBM Corporation Scaling an Application in a Virtualized Environment OMEGAMON product demonstration

33. IBM Software © 2008 IBM Corporation Managing z/VM and Linux on System z33 Scaling an Application in a Virtualized Environment z/VM/CP z/VM Perf. ToolKit CMD (Guest) VM TEMA Linux (Guest) Linux TEMA Ops Mgr Linux (ESMTS105) Linux TEMA MQ TEMA ITCAM TEMA Linux (ESMTS112) Linux TEMA MQ TEMA ITCAM TEMA Tivoli Management Services

34. IBM Software © 2008 IBM Corporation Managing z/VM and Linux on System z34 Scaling an Application in a Virtualized Environment Summary  OMEGAMON monitoring an Enterprise Application  Dashboard displays health of application and system  Proactive monitoring of response and queues  Policy Automation to dynamically add a linux server  Observed the response problem has been corrected

35. IBM Software © 2008 IBM Corporation Safeguarding the System in a Virtualized Environment OMEGAMON product demonstration

36. IBM Software © 2008 IBM Corporation Managing z/VM and Linux on System z36 Safeguarding the System in a Virtualized Environment z/VM/CP Tivoli Management Services PTK CMD (Guest) VM TEMA Linux (Guest) Linux TEMA Ops Mgr Linux ( SLESA107 ) Linux TEMA

37. IBM Software © 2008 IBM Corporation Managing z/VM and Linux on System z37 Safeguarding the System in a Virtualized Environment Summary  OMEGAMON monitoring system performance  A single workload ‘Hog’ is identified via Situation  Take Action integration to Operations Manager  Operations Manager issues ‘Set Share’ CP command  System is preserved, processing continues while application owner determine IF the app has a bug