Create a Group to collect/watch MSU Utilization from different systems/LPars

Products

• SYSVIEW Performance Management

Issue/Introduction

I want to collect MSU Utilization from different Systems/Lpars. 

For example : SYSA, SYSB, SYSC etc systems total consumption of MSU utilization on single panel, which shows all cross system stats over there.

I need to be able to trigger an alert  based on a threshold that I set.  

    

Resolution

1) Create a CPCGROUP and ensure the system can talk to each other by:

   - Add the group name to GROUPS in CNM4BPRM.

   - Cross check the MENU XSYSTEM options to see if they show the remote systems. You should see stats from them like CPU time, etc.

2) Issue command METRICS MVS to go to that screen and find the MSU related metric.  Use the linecmd 'ADD' in front of the chosen metric.  This will bring up the screen where a new rule(threshold) can be created.

3) Go to the RULES MVS screen by issuing command RULES, and locate the new threshold which was set above.

4) Issue command LIBVIEW PARMLIB MVSDATA and then find the metric, for example FIND 'MSU-4Hour-Group'. If it is set to NO, change it to YES and also set YES/200/CPCGROUP for next parm 'MSU-4hour-Group-Simulate_xxxx'  

    
5) If the count has been increasing for MVS_SYS_4HourGroupAvgMsu then it was triggering for at least one interval.  This indicates that all LPARS are active and connected, which has to happen in order for MVS_SYS_4HourGroupAvgMsu to be evaluated. If one LPAR is not active there will not be a threshold trigger. If there is an LPAR that comes and goes, it can be removed from the CPCGROUP and the MVS_SYS_4HourGroupAvgMsu will trigger as long as all the LPARS in the CPCGROUP are active. 

Additional Information

It is possible to dynamically add and remove an LPAR when it goes down and back up, but that requires user written REXX code.