IBM Monitoring OMEGAMON Best Practices & Performance Guidelines V1 January 2020 Rocky McMahan – Rocket Matt Hunter – IBM IBM Monitoring – OMEGAMON Best Practices & IBM z Systems Performance Guidelines V4 Table of Contents 1. Objectives ........................................................................................................................................................................................... 5 1.1 Document Updates and Revisions ............................................................................................................................................... 5 2. Requirements ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 5 3. IBM OMEGAMON shared documentation ................................................................................................................................... 5 4. Maintenance Documentation ........................................................................................................................................................... 5 5. PARMGEN Configuration for OMEGAMON/TMS Products on z/OS ...................................................................................... 6 5.1 How to run OMEGAMON’s V550/V540 and still use OMEGAVIEW and OMII CUA’s at V530 levels. .................................. 6 6. Components and architecture .......................................................................................................................................................... 7 7. TEPS ................................................................................................................................................................................................... 8 7.2 TEPS performance ................................................................................................................................................................... 9 7.3 TEPClient can affect portal server performance ................................................................................................................. 9 8. TEMS ................................................................................................................................................................................................. 9 8.1 Major processes in TEMS ....................................................................................................................................................... 9 8.2 TEMS Hub Platforms ............................................................................................................................................................. 12 8.3 TEMS overhead isolation procedures ................................................................................................................................. 13 8.4 Tuning situations ................................................................................................................................................................... 18 9. IBM OMEGAMON on z/OS .......................................................................................................................................................... 23 9.1 Monitoring Real Storage on machines ................................................................................................................................ 23 9.2 Migrating sysplex proxy overhead ......................................................................................................................................... 25 9.3 USS Monitor ............................................................................................................................................................................ 26 9.4 Crypto Monitor ......................................................................................................................................................................... 26 9.5 Performance Tips Using the OMEGAMON z/OS 3270 Interface ................................................................................... 27 9.6 Common Storage Area (CSA) Analyzer ............................................................................................................................. 27 10. OMEGAMON for CICS ............................................................................................................................................................. 28 10.1 Situation synchronization ................................................................................................................................................ 28 10.2 Excessive number of situations to create exceptions ................................................................................................... 29 10.3 Auto-discovery of CICS regions ....................................................................................................................................... 29 10.4 Situations ............................................................................................................................................................................. 31 10.5 Situation distribution ......................................................................................................................................................... 32 10.6 Historical data collection ................................................................................................................................................. 32 Page 2 of 139 IBM Monitoring – OMEGAMON Best Practices & IBM z Systems Performance Guidelines V4 10.7 Common collector overhead .......................................................................................................................................... 33 10.8 Classic Historical bottleneck data collection .............................................................................................................. 33 11. OMEGAMON for JVM .............................................................................................................................................................. 34 12. OMEGAMON for Messaging .................................................................................................................................................... 34 12.1 KMQ Monitoring Agent & MQ Broker Agent ........................................................................................................................... 34 12.2 Getting started with configuration ............................................................................................................................................ 34 12.3 Granting authorities to IBM MQ Monitoring agent ................................................................................................................. 34 13. OMEGAMON for DB2 ............................................................................................................................................................... 37 13.1 Classic Background data collectors ............................................................................................................................. 38 14. OMEGAMON for IMS ............................................................................................................................................................... 39 14.1 Classic Background data collectors ............................................................................................................................. 39 14.2 Controlling auto discovery .............................................................................................................................................. 39 14.3 Controlling background data collectors ....................................................................................................................... 39 14.4 Product-provided and customer situations ................................................................................................................. 40 14.5 Additional consideration for Version 5.x ...................................................................................................................... 40 14.6 Application Trace Facility (ATF) .................................................................................................................................... 41 15. OMEGAMON for Storage ......................................................................................................................................................... 42 15.1 Situations ............................................................................................................................................................................. 42 15.2 Data Collection .................................................................................................................................................................... 43 16. OMEGAMON for Mainframe NetWorks .................................................................................................................................. 46 16.1 Processor use for monitoring networks on z/OS systems ........................................................................................... 46 16.2 Understanding how real-time data is collected .............................................................................................................. 46 16.3 Determining which systems and TCP/IP address spaces to monitor