MAINVIEW® for Infrastructure Management - Data Sheet

MAINVIEW® for Infrastructure Management

MAINVIEW® by BMC Software

Key benefits

Business challenge

IT organizations must ensure high availability of systems to respond to the accelerating requirements fueled by e-business applications, ERP, and 24x365 requirements.Data centers must meet performance objectives and increase productivity in traditional mainframe and parallel sysplex environments. Meeting this demand requires advanced automation, problem analysis, and correction.

Organizations require a single powerful online reporting system that collects a broad range of data on a variety of system activities and offers compatibility with related products.

The complexity of the IT environment continues to place increasing demands on data center personnel. They must be able to increase performance objectives and productivity and, at the same time, control costs.

With the advent of UNIX running within OS/390 with OS/390 UNIX System Services, data center personnel are even more challenged to understand the impact of new UNIX System Services workloads and resource consumption within their OS/390 enterprises.

BMC Software solution

MAINVIEW for Infrastructure Management monitors, manages, and automates enterprise server environments. It provides a wide array of online and historical views to manage your infrastructure across an unlimited number of z/OS, OS/390, UNIX System Services, or parallel sysplex environments.

MAINVIEW for Infrastructure Management allows you to do more with less. The auto-mated component allows you to realize imme-diate application performance improvements with existing resources.

MAINVIEW for Infrastructure Management provides a high-performance, low-cost alternative to RMF.

Monitor the enterprise server environment

MAINVIEW for Infrastructure Management provides true Single System Image and a single point of control for monitoring an unlimited number of OS/390 systems. It offers detailed, customizable displays. The batch reports and online interfaces provide planning information and are comparable to RMF.

Single System Image provides for all resources within your OS/390 enterprise. It allows you to analyze data from a whole new perspective, simply by displaying a summary view.

Manage the enterprise server environment

MAINVIEW for Infrastructure Management provides the power to achieve performance objectives and increase productivity across the enterprise server environment. An extensive array of online views offers enterprise server systems performance management across an unlimited number of OS/390 systems or parallel sysplex environments. You can generate parallel sysplex-wide global alarms without the need to resort to costly, add-on, high-overload workstation-based solutions.

Manage the UNIX System Services environment

MAINVIEW for Infrastructure Management provides key metrics in an easy-to-understand fashion, allowing you to effectively manage UNIX System Services. It allows you to observe workloads and resources consumed from the UNIX System Services perspective that traditional performance monitors are unable to see.

MAINVIEW for Infrastructure Management provides detailed information about processes and relates them back to the OS/390 address space. You can take action to avoid problems before they occur.

MAINVIEW for Infrastructure Management allows you to equate the UNIX file systems or underlying file structure to the OS/390 data set names so that you can understand the performance and resource issues is both OS/390 and UNIX terms.

Resolve problems quickly

MAINVIEW for Infrastructure Management makes enterprise server management a hands-off operation across multiple environments. With its easy-to-generate management rules and comprehensive alert management, MAINVIEW for Infrastructure Management ensures high availability of your applications. It enables a swift transfer to problem analysis and correction using the appropriate management product, even on remote systems.

MAINVIEW integration

MAINVIEW solutions from BMC Software provide reliable, integrated sets of products that give you complete control of your stand-alone enterprise server or complex parallel sysplex environment. With MAINVIEW at work in your enterprise, your data center operates more efficiently and manages application service levels from a busi-ness perspective. Many problems are detected and solved automatically, and troubleshooting is fast and easy.

Complementary solutions

The following BMC Software solutions complement and enhance MAINVIEW for Infrastructure Management: