UPGRADE OPSMVS for event management

Products

• OPS/MVS Event Management & Automation

Issue/Introduction

  We are getting ready to upgrade our COMMON SERVICES on z/OS. I just realized that the EVENT MANAGMENT component of COMMON services is no longer shipped with COMMON SERVICES. Note we do not use the AGENT TECHNOLOGIES component. The release notes for COMMON SERVICES has the following bulleted item.

"DEPRECATED FEATURES AND COMPONENTS

Network and Systems Management (NSM), which contains the Agent Technologies and Event Management

components.

If you are using NSM, you can migrate to Unified Infrastructure Management (UIM, formerly known as

Nimsoft). If you are using NSM together with OPS/MVS to process network and USS events, you can migrate

to OPS/MVS Release 13.5. OPS/MVS Release 13.5 contains a new UIM Interface and a new USS

Syslogd Server. For more information, see New Features in the Release Notes section of the OPS/MVS 13.5

documentation."

1. is the UIM component above for z/OS or the distributed side? Sounds like the distributed side and I believe they are running that already on the distributed servers here.

2. We are currently running OPSMVS V130. Do we have to upgrade to the V13.5 to have Event Management capability?

Environment

OPS/MVS

Resolution

UIM is a distributed product which "provides a single, analytics-driven solution for proactively and efficiently managing modern, cloud and hybrid IT infrastructures. UIM is the only solution that provides intelligent analytics, comprehensive coverage and an open, extensible architecture. "   

The OPS/MVS UIM Interface is only available starting with release 13.5.  In order to make use of this interface, thereby allowing OPS/MVS to send requests to UIM, OPS/MVS needs to be upgraded to release 13.5 or higher.