BMC MainView SRM Automation

Comprehensive automation for mainframe storage

IT problem

Storage administrators face the challenge of managing a growing resource, ensuring maximum availability and controlling costs. The processed data, the most critical resource to any application, must be available and performing properly. At the same time, the expertise required to manage this complex storage technology compounds this challenge.

BMC solution

MainView SRM Automation provides a central location from which to control the z/OS storage enterprise. It monitors storage resources, receives alerts and with powerful rules-based automation, acts on potential problems across multiple images and LPARs.

Features and benefits

• Provides pre-defined automation solutions to enable rapid storage automation and adaptability
• Centralizes management of z/OS storage automation and exception processing
• Allows greater capacity to be managed per administrator
• Eliminates the need to create and support complex scripting via simple to use and quick rules-based processing
• Consolidates a wide variety of storage events from DFSMS, DFSMShsm, RAID devices, and MainView SRM enabling management of a complex environment from one place

Key differentiators

• Allows simple event management or definition of sophisticated automation for a variety of storage events
• Provides user-defined schedules for execution of critical tasks or processes and ensures essential storage management activities
• Drives manual and automatic automation functions so discretionary automation as well as automatic responses to a storage related exception are provided
• Provides product integration enabling exceptions which can be based on threshold breeches being detected by the other MainView SRM solutions

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