Analysis point monitoring

When you are using MAS resource monitoring to monitor multiple CICS® systems and the same condition occurs in those systems, notification is generated for each system. There may be certain conditions, however, for which you do not want multiple notifications to be generated.

By using analysis point monitoring (APM), you can evaluate the resources being monitored in one or more CICS systems within a CICSplex and be notified when a condition meets your specified criteria. Should a condition then occur in multiple systems, a single notification message is generated for the CICSplex.

To use the analysis point monitoring facility, you must define analysis point specifications, analysis groups, and analysis definitions. Note that you can use the same analysis groups and analysis definitions with both analysis point monitoring and MAS resource monitoring.

Although you would probably not use analysis point monitoring and MAS resource monitoring to perform the same type of resource analysis, Figure 3 illustrates that changing the analysis specification to an analysis point specification is all that is required to change the preceding example of MAS resource monitoring to analysis point monitoring.

Figure 3. Analysis point monitoring (APM)
 The diagram shows the definitions needed for MAS resource monitoring. Two MVS systems, System A and System B are shown. System A has a CMAS, EYUCMS1A and four MASs, EYUMAS1A (a TOR), EYUMAS2A (an AOR), EYUMAS3A (an AOR) and EYUMAS4A (a FOR). System B has a CMAS, EYUCMS1B and a MAS, EYUMAS1B (an AOR). Sysplex EYUPLX01 contains all the MASs from both systems. System Group EYUCSG01 contains all three AORs (across both systems) and the FOR.. EYUMAS1B is also contained in system group, EYUCSG05. EYUCMS1A is the maintenance point for CICSplex EYUPLX01. There is a connection between the two CMASs.The data repository contains the following definitions: Analysis Definition EYURTD02 which contains Evaluation Definition EYURTE02 and Action Definition EYURTA02; Evaluation Definition EYURTE02 with Evaluation Condition "transactions AB* and average response time greater than 90" and Result Set action AVG; Action Definition EYURTA02 with Event set to YES, Text set to"Response exceeds 90", External Message set to NO and Alert set to NO; Analysis Group EYURTG02 containing Definition EYURTD02, Specification EYURAP01 and Scope EYUCSG01; Analysis Point Specfication EYURAP01 with Primary CMAS EYUMAS1A.
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