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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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RP
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USE CASE
USER PERSONA
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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
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Product Walk
Through
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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
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