VitalSigns for IP, Features
VitalSigns for IP: Versatile, Robust, Reliable, Easy to Use IP Monitor
See Real-Time Data Regarding Configuration, Status, and Performance:
- Application status and round-trip times
- FTP, telnet, OSA, Enterprise Extender, and socket application traffic
- CSM buffer capacity and utilization
- CPU utilization
- Interface configuration, connections, traffic
- TCP/IP stack configuration and buffer use
- Configuration, routes, round-trip times, and status changes for any remote node in your network
Versatile Alert, History, and Logging Features:
- Customize alerts for specific configurations and performance thresholds
- Send alert notifications to e-mail, browser displays, and/or Netview
- VIP automatically discovers the local z/OS network configuration
- Easily search event logs for the entire network
- On-line reports of performance history for a quarter-year or more
- Fully-automated chart drawing for history data
- Export history data to comma-delimited files for other uses, spreadsheets for example
State-of-the-Art Diagnostic Tools:
- Run complete packet traces on any stack
- Filter trace data to display for specific interfaces, addresses, ports, and/or protocols
- View traces in real-time, as packets move through stacks, and/or save them to mainframe datasets
- Send ICMP and UDP pings
- Translate between IP addresses and domain names
- Trace routes and round-trip times between mainframes and remote nodes
- Easily retrieve complete SNMP data from any SNMP-able node on the network
- Quickly find and get the status of all the connections for a given address, application, interface
- Easily drop individual connections
- Send system operator commands directly from the browser to z/OS
Intuitive Graphic Interface for Web Browsers:
- High-level summary screens take the pulse of your entire network
- Easily drill down to specific applications, buffers, interfaces, and stacks
- Quick access to pie, bar, and line charts for recent history on hundreds of fields
- Monitor multiple mainframe hosts from a single screen
- Built from the ground up as a browser-based product —displays significantly more information on one screen than a 3270-based offering
VIP Monitors All these System & Network Resources
- FTP, telnet, OSA, Enterprise Extender, CSM, and socket-application status, availability, performance
- IBM First Failure and Intrusion Detection data
- ICMP message traffic
- SMF and SNMP record data
- System console messages and control blocks
- TCP/IP connections, interfaces, regions
- Remote and tier-1 stacks and interfaces