Maximizing Service Maps To Include The Critical CIs on The Mainframe
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The document discusses the integration of IBM mainframe and IBM i systems into IT analytics and operations platforms using Ironstream® 2. It emphasizes the importance of service mapping for visibility, quick issue resolution, and improved IT operations management. Key features include automated discovery, event management, and relationship mapping to enhance understanding of the entire infrastructure.
Maximizing Service Maps To Include The Critical CIs on The Mainframe
- 1. Maximizing Service Maps to Include the Critical CIs on the Mainframe Presenters Peter Klein – Senior Technology Alliance Manager Ian Hartley – Senior Director of Product Management David Friedman – Senior Sales Engineer
- 2. Automatically Integrate mainframe and IBM i systems into leading IT analytics and operations platforms for an enterprise-wide view of your digital business Precisely Ironstream® 2
- 3. Ironstream Solutions Discovery • Complete the single view of entire infrastructure to enable smarter IT decisions • Rapidly configure and launch secure discovery of the IBM mainframe and IBM i resources and their relationships • Automates manual process and keeps an accurate single source of record • Relationship mapping - maps dependencies and assigns relationships Event Management • Sophisticated event status management of messages to help drive proactive enterprise systems management • Analyzes complex event streams allowing operations staff to quickly determine the cause of a problem • Quickly and accurately prioritize and filter numerous events allowing operations staff to quickly see the problem cause • Hardware Asset Management (HAM) • Software Asset Management (SAM) • Log Analytics • And more… Further Integrations IT Operations Management 3
- 4. 4 What Does Ironstream for ServiceNow Discover? IBM i • Local Storage with ASPs • Memory • LPAR • CPU • Network connectivity • Installed software • Selected system values • Subsystems • Active jobs • Jobqueues • Output queues • Libraries • Programobjects • MQ– managers, channels, queues IBM Z (mainframe) • Db2- DDF,DSG, databases, table spaces anddeep configuration data • Jobactivity • DASD storage • Storage groups • CICS- regions, transactions, programs • IMS- regions, databases, transactions, programs • MQ- managers, channels, queues • Memory • LPAR • CPU • Network connectivity • Installed IBM& non-IBM software IBM Z,Db2,CICS andotherproductnames,terminologyandphrases arecopyrightand/ortrademarksof IBM Corp.inthe United States andothercountries.
- 7. 7 Why Care About Service Mapping? • Need visibility into complete IT • Must beagile and responsive • Quickly identify and resolve issues • Keepyourbusiness running • Have happy customers
- 8. 8 Starts with Understanding What is there • Leveragewhatyouknow • What youhave • How it connects How items relate • Applyyourknowledge • Standard/expected • Non-standard/unexpected • “Just because…”
- 9. 9 Starts with Understanding What is there • Leveragewhatyouknow • What youhave • How it connects How items relate • Applyyourknowledge • Standard/expected • Non-standard/unexpected • “Just because…” CIs CI connections
- 10. Analogy: City Break 10 Discovery Points of Interest • Museums, galleries, restaurants, bars Connections • Roads, pathways, bus stops, subway stations Service Mapping Adds context • POIs and connections for a journey • Clarityof impact when POIis unavailable
- 11. 11 Service Mapping for Mainframe and IBM i • ‘Patterns’ add discovered CIsinto a service context • Configure…run…automate • Get mainframe and IBM i into the wider service view
- 12. Demo 12
- 13. Q & A
- 14. Thank you
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