Automation Point

[Gadi Ben Avi]

Hi,

I am very new to Automation Point, meaning I don't know very much.

I'm pretty good with OPS/MVS, if that makes a difference. 

Initially, I am looking for a way to have Automation Point monitor the status of the LPAR's on our z15's, and if the status changes, send a message to specific email address.

I've installed Automation Point, and defined a HAF connection to our HMC using REST services. 

I think I got all of the required ports open.

1. How do I make sure that the HAF connection is defined correctly?
2. How would I go about monitoring the status of the LPAR's?

Is there a Tutorial somewhere that will get me through the initial setup, and teach me how to get started?

Thanks

Gadi

[Marcel van Ek]

Gadi, have you looked at the BCPii interface from OPS/MVS? 

You can go directly with rest api's to HMC from OPS/MVS, once you've setup OPSBCPII.

We monitor all lpar's states that way as  HWS api events will show up in OPSLOG and can be automated (email/ticket..)

I'd advise to setup at least one instance of OPSBCPII  per CPC as obviously you'll miss events if the owing lpar is in trouble.

[Gadi Ben Avi]

Hi Marcel.

I know about OPSBCPII.

I am looking for a solution that will work when my z/OS LPARs are down. 

Gadi

[Marcel van Ek]

Hi Gadi, that's ok. I've never considered AP, as (at the time) it was too problematic to give it access to our HMC's, and with OPSBCPii no direct network connection is needed. Good luck.

[Teodoro Novo]

Hi Gadi,

AP is a very interesting solution to automate events when OPSMVS is not running, yet. According to Marcel, considering OPSBCPii to monitor the status of the LPARs has advantages like running OPS/REXX from the OSF servers (ADDRESS HWS host environment) in more than one LPAR per CPC. Also, BCPii hardware and software events can be managed by AOF API rules.

Teo 

[Gadi Ben Avi]

Hi Teodoro,

Like I said, I'm looking for a solution that will work when z/OS, and therefor OPS  Is down for some reason. 

Gadi

[Marcel van Ek]

I guess, if you only have a few (1-3) lpars and maybe only one CPC, Automation Point is the way to go. 

In our case with multiple CPC's and dozens of lpars, we can have multi lpar monitoring from multiple CPC's, it's easier and has advantages. (like the API events)