REDRAW THE LINES EView/400i Management for HP Operations Manager Integrate iseries (AS/400) environments into a unified Enterprise IT Operations Platform February 2015 2009 EView Technology
About EView Technology Proven IT Enterprise Operations Experts since 2000 EView Technology focus and expertise is providing solutions which consolidate and integrate IT enterprise management of IBM mainframe and AS/400-iSeries server environments into industry leading operations management, discovery and big data/analytics products from Microsoft, HP and Splunk. Our Products - EView/390z (Mainframe) and EView/400i (iseries-as/400) EView Management HP Operations Manager HP Operations Bridge (OMi) Microsoft System Center EView Discovery HP Universal Discovery for HP UCMDB EView Insight for Splunk IT Operations Intelligence (BigData/Analytics) Technology Partnerships HP Software Gold Partner, HP MRP Program, IBM's PartnerWorld for Developers, Splunk Development Partner, and Microsoft Systems Center Alliance and Development Partner. EView Solution Sales Partners Worldwide
EView Technology Company Overview Proven SoluBons EView Technology and HP SoFware have a long, rich tradibon of joint development of industry leading solubons for IT OperaBons and UCMDB Discovery. Expert installabon, customizabon, training and consulbng team. Installed in many of the world s top corporabons in hundreds of customer locabons in 30+ countries worldwide. Proven Technology and Support Infrastructure 24 x 7 Worldwide Support by experienced and highly skilled in- house technical support engineers. Comprehensive, in- house development, tesbng and support infrastructure including mulbple mainframe (z/os), AS/400 (iseries) systems, and the latest sofware releases by IBM, MicrosoF, Splunk and HP. Extensive and expert pre- and post- sales support 3
Some EView Technology Customers 14+ successful years in business Hundreds of satisfied customers in over 30+ countries worldwide
The EView Product Family
Why do corporabons conbnue to use Mainframes and iseries (AS/400)s Power No other compubng pla^orms can deliver the level of high- ublizabon, transacbon intensive compubng performance Security Flexible Can be used as a hub across the enterprise for security and data serving, workload management, and business reliance. Dependability Running corporabons most mission cribcal applicabons Achieve greater economies of scale Ex: one mainframe can do the compubng workload of 1,500 Windows Servers Cost- effecbve pla^orm high up front investment but lower overall long term cost Integral part of cloud compubng the original cloud Can combine mainframe and distributed compubng pla^orms under a common umbrella 6
Benefits of Consolidated IT OperaBons Break down the mulbple organizabonal silos that have proliferated without the benefit of coordinated planning Provide a total picture of the IT environment End- to- end consolidated view Reduces duplicabon of effort, represenbng significant cost savings AutomaBon can be employed to speed response Bmes and ensure consistency More efficient use of IT resources namely IT domain experts Free up resources in other domains to focus on higher- value acbvibes Provide the insight needed to adequately analyze and efficiently resolve IT related issues 7
EView Technology Company Overview Proven Solu6ons EView Management for HP OperaBons Manager and EView Discovery for HP UCMDB. EView Management for MicrosoF Systems Center OperaBons Manager Expert installabon, customizabon, training and consulbng team. Installed in many of the world s top corporabons in hundreds of customer locabons in 30+ countries worldwide. EView/400i Management for HP Opera6ons Manager Product Details Proven Technology and Support Infrastructure 24 x 7 Worldwide Support by experienced and highly skilled in- house technical support engineers. Comprehensive, in- house development, tesbng and support infrastructure including mulbple mainframe (z/os), AS/400 (iseries) systems, and the latest sofware releases by IBM, MicrosoF, and HP. Extensive and expert pre- and post- sales support 8
EView/400i Management for HP OperaBons Manager Consolidated Enterprise IT Operations Management Seamless IntegraBon with HP OperaBons Manager as the common enterprise console. 9
EView/400i Management How It Works SoFware Agents reside on the IBM system and communicate with the OperaBons server via TCP/IP The EView Technology IBM hosted Agents monitor cribcal management messages that are forwarded to OperaBons server Administrators analyze problems and excepbons to develop policies and procedures that automate problem resolubon Operators oversee the automated processes and only need to act when there are excepbons CompaBble with legacy iseries (AS/400) management applicabons 10
High Level Architecture and IntegraBon iseries AS/400 HP Opera6ons Manager EView Agent Message Filtering TCP/IP EView OV Server Component Ac6ons Messages Open Message Interface OperaBons Manager Server OperaBons Manager Agent 11
Features for EView/390z and EView/400i Comprehensive Monitoring The most advanced and comprehensive Management Pack for managing IBM iseries (AS/400) Systems. There are specific monitors for: AS/400 State ASP State Audit Journal Alerts Job Queue State Job/Subsystem State Memory Pool State Automated Performance ReporBng (via HP tools) to include: CPU Performance Report Disk I/O Performance Report Disk Read Performance Report Disk UBlizaBon Report Disk Write Performance Report Server Availability Report Message Queue Alerts MQ Series Channel State MQ Series Qmanager State MQ Series Queuename State Output Queue State Services State 6 12
Technical Overview EView/400i Management for HP OperaBons Manager 13
EView/400i - HP OperaBons Manager IntegraBon Master Message Server Distributes incoming messages to the OperaBons management agent for policy rules processing and to the console message browser. Command Server forwards OperaBons acbon request to an OS/400 system to enable automabc and/or Operator inibated acbons. EView/400 Agent Messages Master Message Server OS/400 Messages Simplified Architecture Commands HP OperaBons Manager Server OVO Server Component Command Server OS/400 AcBons OM Agent OM Server OM Console(s) 14
EView/400i Management for HP OperaBons Manager Key Func8onality Monitoring of OS/400 systems and applicabons OperaBons Manager operator console is the central consolidabon for all system messages and alerts Audit Journal Monitoring MQ Series Monitoring AutomaBon Libraries Out- of- the- box filters provide a rich starter set for rapid implementabon Agent filters combined with default templates/policies provide building blocks to ensure a rapid start- up. Customize and automate using OperaBons templates/policies Performance Monitoring Interface to the IBM Resource Monitoring Facility (RMF) is provided to collect and forward mainframe performance informabon to the OperaBons Manager server and OperaBons Center performance agent Consolidated Management View Provide a business- centric perspecbve on the central OperaBons Console 15
EView/400i Management Key FuncBonality (conbnued) Operator tools for efficient operabon Fast Response Time Use of API s improves response Bme to CPU intensive commands sent from the management server to EView/400i agent. Systems administrators have the ability to interface with the iseries (AS/400) operabonal informabon to manage the system, applicabon jobs, output queues and spool files MulBple ConnecBvity Allows customers to have more than one management server connected to an EView/400 agent simultaneously. Customers can monitor a specific EView/400 agent from mulbple locabons (i.e. follow the sun capabilibes). Message Queue Monitoring OpBons Two- Way CommunicaBon with between OVO and OS/400 systems Maximize problem- resolubon speed and automabon Adaptability to your environment Easy to customize to fit your environment and IT management processes Manage any subset of OS/400 funcbons Filter and organize messages and alerts to focus anenbon to cribcal areas 16
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Advantages of the EView Technology SoluBons EView Management is the only solubons in the marketplace that seamlessly integrate the IBM Mainframe and iseries (AS/400) with HP SoFware EView Technology has the cribcal mainframe (zseries) and iseries (AS/400) environment knowledge and support skills resources Advanced features including automabon and audit capabilibes that are significantly more feature rich than compebbve offerings Ease of implementabon with EView products, a customer can be up in running with default policies in a few hours and not weeks/months. On- going costs Customers pay a one- Bme charge and low support costs vs. expensive ongoing license fees typical from other major vendors EView products are licensed on a per- physical system basis (ex: 2 AS/400s = 2 EView licenses) Proven! 18
Summary The combinabon of HP SoFware and EView Technology enables the IBM legacy server environments to be an integral part of the overall Change, Incident/ Problem, Service, OperaBons Management Enterprise IT Environment. Customers achieve compebbve advantage by shifing IT investment from maintenance to innovabon Connect business services to underlying infrastructure and applicabons. PrioriBze service outages with the most impact Bener quality of services at a lower cost to your business. Standardize and automate best pracbces to increase staff efficiency, reduce spending and remediate problems. Automate mundane tasks and facilitate collaborabve problem resolubon, reducing human intervenbon. Provide visibility into the constant change that occurs in virtualized and cloud- based environments. 19
Where to go for more informabon Contact for quesbons: Trent Gregory (tgregory@eview- tech.com) Or our 24 x 7 General Sales support at: info@eview- tech.com Call: +1 919 878 5199 20 2015 EView Technology