IntelliMagic Vision automatically generates GUI-based, interactive, IBM best-practice compliant rated reports that proactively identify areas that indicate potential upcoming risk to TCP/IP health, performance, and security. And using the highly flexible drill-down capabilities of IntelliMagic Vision, this data can be analyzed from the address space (socket) level, port number (protocol) level, or physical interface level.
TCP/IP is the core of the communication for the z/OS mainframe, both for traffic into and out of the mainframe and internal communication among z/OS images and processor complexes. Proper management is necessary to secure and protect system availability.
When managing TCP/IP for z/OS, questions arise such as:
IntelliMagic Vision provides visibility on the use of encryption protocols for all IP and TCP traffic to and from z/OS mainframe by enriching and transforming the data to ready-to-use audit and security reports.
IntelliMagic Vision provides insight into physical interfaces, including OSA channels and HiperSockets that are used for communication between LPARs. While the increase in utilization in this example isn’t a problem for availability (green), the change observed may warrant further investigation and could be related to unnecessary increases in other areas of the infrastructure.
Duplicate Acks may indicate data center and/or external network configuration improvement opportunities. This is one of many metrics which are automatically rated and tracked to provide quick insights into mainframe network health.
Dashboards of seemingly unrelated metrics can quickly be assembled and shared. One view for performance, network, storage, MQ, CICS, and DB2 to enable collaboration across the enterprise. For instance, this example incorporates type 30 address space consumption, TCP/IP traffic rates, including traffic by Encryption Cipher type. Specific visibility into client and server IP address are also available.
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