Preparing to perform real-time analysis

This section describes how you can use CICSPlex® SM to analyze the status of one or more CICS® systems and the resource information gathered about those systems. Based on its analysis, you can have CICSPlex SM generate external notifications when a condition occurs that you want to know about. In addition, you can have CICSPlex SM modify the attributes of a resource when it is not in the desired state.

The real-time analysis (RTA) component of CICSPlex SM performs the following types of monitoring and analysis:

System availability monitoring (SAM)
You can be notified when a CICS system is not active during its expected hours of operation. When a CICS system is active, you can also be notified if any of a variety of predefined conditions occur that could affect the systems performance.
MAS resource monitoring (MRM)
You can be notified when CICS resources being monitored at the CICS system level meet the criteria that you establish. You can also request to be notified when the status of a user-written program meets your criteria.
Analysis point monitoring (APM)
You can be notified when CICS resources being monitored at the CICSplex level meet your criteria.

The notification you receive can be in the form of:

Note:
You can also use the real-time analysis functions to produce data that will help in the selection of a target region during workload management. See the example tasks in CICSPlex SM Managing Workloads for more information.
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