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AIOps: Monitoring and Observability

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Smarter mainframe monitoring with IBM Z OMEGAMON Web UI

By Ramanath Shanbhag posted 7 hours ago

  

Today’s enterprises rely on actionable, real-time insights to ensure their IBM Z® mainframe environments are operating smoothly and securely. IBM Z OMEGAMON® Web UI offers a modern, browser-based interface and redefines how organizations monitor and manage complex systems. This solution not only makes mainframe data highly accessible but also interactive and visually engaging.

Modular and secure by design

OMEGAMON Web UI has been completely architected for flexibility, security, and ease of use.

  • OMEGAMON Gateway: The secure communications hub that connects to Tivoli® Enterprise Monitoring Server (TEMS) and manages authentication, authorization, and role definitions.
  • Admin UI: An interface for managing TEMS connections, z/OS® Hub TEMS connections for dashboards and Situation editor, z/OS RTEMSes connections for dashboards.
  • OMEGAMON Data Requester: Retrieves and processes monitoring data for both real-time and near-term data analysis, enabling advanced queries and visualizations.
  • Role-Based Access Control: Out-of-the-box and customizable access policies ensure sensitive data and actions are available only to the right users by OIDC integration for single sign-on security.

With OMEGAMON Web UI, organizations gain a modern, scalable solution for mainframe monitoring. It combines the depth of OMEGAMON agent data with the flexibility of Grafana dashboards, delivering a unified experience that enhances visibility, simplifies alerting, and supports proactive system management.

Deploy, Scale, and Innovate

With containerized deployment (supporting Linux (amd64) and IBM z/Linux (s390x)) and built-in support for open industry standards, OMEGAMON Web UI offers a future-proof foundation for mainframe monitoring.

Visualize OMEGAMON agents' data with Grafana dashboards

OMEGAMON Web UI’s integration with Grafana, an open-source visualization platform, offers a powerful, unified monitoring experience. Teams can explore live and near-term OMEGAMON agent data through robust dashboards that enable:

  • Enterprise-wide views: Monitor performance and health metrics across z/OS, CICS®, Db2®, JVM, MQ, IIB/ACE, IMS™, Network, and Storage environments.
  • Drill-down capabilities: Investigate critical details with a click, from high-level summaries to granular insights.
  • Cross-product navigation: Effortlessly move between dashboards for different OMEGAMON agents.
  • Data links: Jump directly from summary panels to deeper analytics, streamlining investigations and decision-making.

This level of visualization puts actionable intelligence at your fingertips, helping your team resolve issues faster and proactively optimize resources. Take a look at the following image showcasing a few OMEGAMON agent dashboards, which brilliantly visualize data in an insightful and dynamic way:

Simplify alert management with Situations

OMEGAMON Web UI simplifies defining and managing alerts with Situations, custom conditions that trigger notifications when specific thresholds are reached. Through the Admin UI, users can:
  • Create Situations using logical expressions based on monitored attributes.
  • Assign severity levels and configure sampling intervals.
  • Set up automated actions and expert advice for triggered alerts.
  • Define closure conditions, such as time expiration or related event resolution.

This streamlined alerting system ensures that teams are notified only when it matters most, helping reduce noise and focus on critical issues.

Respond instantly from your dashboards

The Take Action feature in OMEGAMON Web UI enhances interactivity in your monitoring experience. With this feature, you can run predefined commands directly from your Grafana dashboards without switching contexts or leaving the dashboard. You can manually run actions with a few clicks or configure situations to trigger automated responses when specific conditions are met.

Ready to accelerate your mainframe monitoring? Explore how IBM Z OMEGAMON Web UI can transform the way you see, understand, and manage your critical systems. Visit IBM Shopz, place your order, and download the product from Fix Central.

For more information about the installation, configuration, and usage of IBM Z OMEGAMON Web UI, refer to the IBM documentation.

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