Programs That Interact with the NetView for z/OS Program

The NetView® for z/OS® program is the foundation for enterprise management, serving as the focal point for systems and distributed network managers. The NetView automation table and RODM provide a strong automation platform for managing systems, networks, workstations, and LANs.

Many other products complement the NetView for z/OS program to provide a comprehensive set of enterprise management functions. Products that work with the NetView program include the following programs:

System Automation for z/OS. The NetView for z/OS program provides the automation services, graphic topology services, and other underlying services for System Automation for z/OS, which enables automated management of z/OS systems and applications. See System Automation for z/OS.
Geographically Dispersed Parallel Sysplex® (GDPS®) solution. The NetView for z/OS program provides automation services, data services, communication services, and other underlying services for GDPS. The NetView program also provides the web application, which is used as the GDPS user interface. See Geographically Dispersed Parallel Sysplex.
Tivoli® Network Manager. The NetView for z/OS program can receive discovered TCP/IP resource topology from Tivoli Network Manager software to show an enterprise-wide view of the network, track resource status, and issue commands to the discovered resources. See Tivoli Network Manager.
Tivoli Netcool®/OMNIbus. The NetView for z/OS program can forward events to Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus, which collects enterprise-wide event information from a wide variety of IT and network environments. See Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus.
Tivoli Enterprise Console®. The NetView for z/OS program can forward collected z/OS management information to other management applications. For example, z/OS messages and events can be sent to the Tivoli Enterprise Console program as events for end-to-end correlation, action, and display. See Tivoli Enterprise Console.
Tivoli Business Service Manager. The NetView for z/OS program delivers management services to Tivoli Business Service Manager for handling of z/OS subsystems such as the CICS®, DB2®, and IMS subsystems. See Tivoli Business Service Manager.

The following programs also work with the NetView program:

Figure 1 shows a graphical representation of the NetView operating environment, including the distributed NetView for z/OS components and the other products that can be used with the NetView for z/OS program. For more information about other programs, see the product documentation for those programs.