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CA Unified Infrastructure Management for z Systems: Get a Holistic View of Your Mobile to Mainframe Infrastructure

Lowell H. Higley

Mainframe

CA Technologies

Senior Principal Product Manager

MFX24S

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Abstract

Discover how CA Unified Infrastructure Management for z Systems helps you

gain a holistic view of business services that span mobile to mainframe.

Whether you’re part of your organization’s central IT operations team or a

seasoned mainframe expert, you’ll want to join us for this in-depth session

and see how mainframe storage, network, z/OS® and z/VM® metrics can now

be fed into this powerful single pane of glass environment using these

lightweight, easy to install probes. Learn how to build custom dashboards

and set alerts with the useful alarms that can be used out of the box. Don’t

miss this opportunity to discover how you can empower your IT operations

staff to monitor your mainframe as part of your overall IT infrastructure,

freeing up z Systems® specialists to resolve issues more quickly and lower

your overall MTTR.

Lowell Higley

CA TechnologiesSenior Principal Product Manager


Agenda

INTRODUCTION TO CA UNIFIED INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGEMENT (UIM)

CA UIM FOR Z SYSTEMS OVERVIEW

SOLUTION ROADMAP

Q&A

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80%Agree, disjointed cross-platform management leads to lost opportunity

SOURCE: Infrastructure & Operation Trends Survey – Enterprise Systems Media, March 2015


FRONT END

Single Pane of Glass Business Service VisibilityCA Unified Infrastructure Manager (UIM) for z Systems

Backend

NETWORKUSER

EndUser

Router Firewall SwitchLoad

BalancerWeb

ServicesPortal

A Business Service

ApplicationsCICSIMS

IDMSDatabases

Mainframe

Databases z/VM – Linux

Storage

App Server

3rd party Apps

DatabasesWeb

ServicesSaaS

MQ


Addressing Key ChallengesCA Unified Infrastructure Manager (UIM) for z Systems

Increase visibility across entire IT infrastructure with a single source of the truth

Reduce the tools and skillsets required to monitor cross enterprise infrastructure

Accelerate Mean Time to Resolution (MTTR) for improved customer experience


CA Unified Infrastructure Management Architecture

Collect

Display

Correlate/ Aggregate

Message Bus

Open APIs

3rd party integration

Agent Optional

180+ Probes

SDKs available

Multi-Tenant

3rd Party Integration

Easily Skin-able

HubData Repository

Agent Based(Probes located on each server)

P P PCPU, Disk, Memory, Logs, Services,

Processes, etc.

Agentless(Probes remotely talk to devices)

P P P

Network, Databases, Cloud, etc.

Server Server

UNIFIED MONITORING OF PUBLIC AND PRIVATE IT ENVIRONMENTS

ApplicationCommercial & Custom

DatabaseIT & Business

CloudPublic & Private

NetworkLAN & WAN

PowerEfficiency

z SystemsServerPhysical & Virtual


Development PhilosophyCA Unified Infrastructure Manager (UIM) for z Systems

Basic, Light Weight Data SourcesProvide top 15 to 20 metrics of value with only OS dependencies

Advanced, Heavier Data SourcesProvide additional metrics with some heavier dependencies

Application Data SourcesProvide substantial metrics/data and functionality with applications

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CA UIM for z Systems Use Cases

UIM & UIM4z

Initial Triage & Problem Identification

Advanced Problem Determination,

Remediation & Resolution

Expert Context Determination,

Remediation & Resolution

IT Operations Generalist

Mainframe Specialist

Mainframe Expert

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CA UIM for z Systems – Probe Pack Summary

CA UIM Storage for z Systems probe pack

CA UIM Operations for z Systems probe pack

CA UIM for z SystemsBuilt on the CA UIM platform, the solution provides a business service view across data center infrastructure, including the industry’s most complete z Systems coverage: z/OS, z/VM and Linux on z

Feeds metrics data from the z/OS operating system into CA UIM such as:

• Sysplex images

• LPARs

• z/OS instances

• Started tasks

• System tasks

• Channel I/O

CA UIM for z/VM systems probe pack

Feeds metrics data from the mainframe storage environment into CA UIM such as:

• DASD

• HFS and NFS mount points

• Fibre Channel ports

Feeds metrics data from the mainframe z/VM hypervisor and data related to guests running on z/VM such as:

• System/Guest CPU

• Page volume, spool volume, wait states.

• Total CPU

• Resident Memory

• Working Set

• Page Read and Page Writes

• Network Metrics


Product Walk

Through


Simplify Mainframe Monitoring

Sophisticated, yet simple probe architecture makes it easy to monitor z Systems as part of overall IT infrastructure, reducing the need for specialized tools and expertise.

Reduce Downtime

Quickly identify and resolve infrastructure problems across mainframe and distributed environments.

Improve ROI

Spend less time managing disparate tools and more time focusing on the business to accelerate MTTR, increase efficiency and reduce costs.

Summary


Follow On Conversations At…

Demo Station: MNFSE010

CA Unified Infrastructure Management for z Systems

DEMO STATION


Q & A


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