VitalSigns for IP
Reduce Your Mainframe Costs !
See VitalSigns for NAC and VitalSigns for IP.
SDS's VitalSigns replacement program will save big money on your legacy network management products.
Ease-of-use and CPU efficiency make VitalSigns z/OS software the ideal replacement for NetView and NetMaster.
VitalSigns provides a full-spectrum tool set for automating, monitoring, and troubleshooting SNA applications and IP networks.
The best tool for z/OS network monitoring, IP network monitoring, Enterprise Extender monitoring, OSA monitoring, FTP monitoring, network history reporting, verifying service-level agreements…

It’s All About the Applications!
Even the remote applications…printers, servers, socket app’s.
If applications aren’t working, network speed doesn’t matter.
VitalSigns for IP can report what applications are running and who is using them. If any piece goes missing, VIP will alert you.
Printers and servers may be outside of the mainframe and outside of your turf, but when the mainframe can’t reach them, the users call you.
So get a VIP monitor. Know what’s up.
VIP: performance monitoring for z/OS – TCP/IP networks…
Detect, diagnose, resolve, and prevent TCP/IP problems on z/OS networks. VitalSigns for IP (VIP) provides real-time graphic displays of network health and traffic—at common desktop browsers.
- Extremely efficient monitoring; very low CPU demand.
- Simple to learn and use: Let the help desk diagnose trouble in real time.
- No blind spots—VIP monitors the entire network in full detail.
- You get performance data and trouble alerts in genuine real-time.
- Provides easy access to graphic history data—charts and/or tables.
Click on the sample VIP screens!
Now HTTP Performance and Response-Time Monitoring!
See response times for all HTTP connections and users.
- Display response times, numbers of connections, and data-transfer rates immediately, in real-time.
- Chart response times and traffic volumes over the long term.
- Get alerts by e-mail if response times degrade.
VIP Server Runs on z/OS
Typically, VIP monitoring Agents on any number of z/OS systems deliver their monitoring data to a single VIP Server. The VIP Server, in turn, delivers the z/OS data to VIP users at desktop web browsers.
The VIP Server most often runs on a z/OS system, via Unix System Services (USS).
In alternative configurations, VIP Agents might report to multiple VIP Servers, because the redundancy insures against breakdown. And VIP Servers can run outside of z/OS: they install equally well on Unix, Linux, or Windows machines.

