VitalSigns for Network Automation & Control, White Paper
z/OS Monitoring, Control, and Automation
March 2010
How to Save the cost of NetView® or NetMaster®
NetView for z/OS, is an "all but the kitchen sink" product. IBM appears to have indiscriminately included in it everything but the kitchen sink. The current release includes a SOAP-based web services gateway. It also contains a gateway to the Tivoli Service Request Manager (TSRM) Then there is the ever-present, built-in, API-level interfaces to PIPEs, LE/370, LU 6.2, and Info Bridge. In addition to all of that, there is also oodles of code for integration with the OMEGAMON XE product suite, the Tivoli Enterprise Portal (TEP), and the Tivoli Business System Manager.
VitalSigns for Network Automation & Control, in stark contrast to IBM's profligate approach, focuses on delivering just the core, most widely used automation, monitoring, and message consolidation capabilities of NetView.
"NetView for z/OS is an oversized chainsaw,
with external fuel tanks, built-in GPS, MP3 player, and fish finder...
VNAC is a scalpel."
VNAC sets out to be lean, mean, even keen. There is no excess, no waste. With VNAC, you get and pay for the essential system and network automation, system and network monitoring and mainframe message consolidating capabilities you need.
Because you are not paying for functions you do not use, your costs are going to considerably decrease. You also get a more compact and cohesive, easier-to-master product based on a modern, agent-server architecture. You can run the VNAC server away from the mainframe to realize additional cost savings.
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