Writing Automation Table Statements to Automate MSUs

The NetView® automation table enables you to automate handling of management services units (MSUs). You can automate five types of MSUs:
  • NMVTs
  • CP-MSUs
  • MDS-MUs
  • RECMSs
  • RECFMSs

Figure 1 shows the structure of a multiple domain support message unit (MDS-MU) that contains a control point management services unit (CP-MSU). Figure 2 shows the structure of a network management vector transport (NMVT). For more information, refer to the Systems Network Architecture library.

Figure 1. Conceptual View of a CP-MSU
Conceptual View of a CP-MSU
Figure 2. Conceptual View of an NMVT
Conceptual View of an NMVT
Notice that the data being conveyed, in this case an alert, lies in a structure called a management services major vector. A management services major vector includes these major vectors:
  • X'0000'
  • X'0001'
  • X'0002'
  • X'0025'
  • X'1332'
  • X'1044' (encapsulated RECMS)
  • X'1045' (encapsulated RECFMS)

A management services major vector looks the same in a CP-MSU as in an NMVT.

You can use the RATE statement to suppress repetitive MSUs from resources. MSUs that are blocked by a filter generated as a result of the RATE function are not passed to automation. If you want these MSUs to be automated, add an AUTORATE statement to the BNJDSERV DST initialization member. Refer to the RATE and AUTORATE statements in the IBM® Tivoli® NetView for z/OS® Customization Guide.

For these examples, suppose you want to automate an alert that you are receiving from a local area network. The alert comes to the NetView program in an NMVT, and you decide to select the NMVT for automation. You might start by observing an instance of the alert on the hardware monitor's Alerts-Static panel. From there, you can type DM to get the detail menu and choose 1 to get a hexadecimal display of the NMVT. Paging through two or three panels, you can view the entire contents of the alert, as shown in Figure 3.

Figure 3. Hardware Monitor's Hexadecimal Display of Data Record
 TIVOLI NetView         SESSION DOMAIN: CNM99    R350581   12/02/10 15:11:18

 NPDA-44C           * HEXADECIMAL DISPLAY OF DATA RECORD *          PAGE 1 OF 3


  CNM01       DEVLAN3      LANMGR      DEVLAN3

             +--------+   +--------+     ----
  DOMAIN     |  SP    |---|  TP    |---( LAN  )
             +--------+   +--------+     ----
 DATE/TIME: 05/02 15:10

    NMVT MAJOR VECTOR 0000 - 41038D 0000000000 0157 0000
    SUBVECTOR 31
 B1310602 02B90025 07110349 00140003 21119F30 E3888540 D9899587 40C59999
 969940D4 969589A3 9699404D D9C5D45D 408881A2 408485A3 8583A385 8440A388
 81A34081 95408184 8197A385 994089A2 4085A797 85998985 95838995 874085A7
 8385A2A2 89A58540 83969587 85A2A389 96954081 95844089 A2408489 A2838199
 84899587 408140A2 89879589 86898381 95A34095 A4948285 99409686 40869981
 9485A24B 40404DC4 C6C9D7C4 F1F0F7C5 5D
    SUBVECTOR 10
 2E10002B 11040908 F5F6F0F1 F2F2F708 04F0F2F0 F0F0F017 06C9C2D4 40D3C1D5
 40D4C1D5 C1C7C5D9 40404040 4040
    SUBVECTOR 01
 0A010810 5B05020F 0B39
    SUBVECTOR 51
 20510402 057C0808 10005A74 355C1228 40404040 40404040 40404040 40404040
    SUBVECTOR 92
 0B920000 03501157 D16A21
    SUBVECTOR 93
 04933223
    SUBVECTOR 96
 0E960601 10223324 06812010 3101
    SUBVECTOR 05

 2D052B10 00098395 94F0F140 4040003E 08938195 D3C1D5F3 008107D3 C1D5D4C7
 D9001808 938195D3 C1D5F300 39


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