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Status Future consideration
Workspace IBM Z System Automation
Created by Guest
Created on Feb 28, 2013

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System Automation possibility to switch the gateway monitoring ON/OFF

During the planned IPL of one of the Lpars in our enterprise (18 Lpars), the gateways to/from this Lpar to all the other Lpars are disconnected (of course). This results in a red message on the gateway panel on all the other lpars.
Especially when using ‘dynamic SDF' (where only the lpar-name (SDFROOT) is displayed on the main panel -INGTOP-) it results in the entire focal point (INGTOP) turning red.
From an operational point of view this is unacceptable and could lead to missing (other) events/alerts.

The monitoring of gateways is embedded in SA, and can't be customized as far as we know.
We want a way to switch the gateway monitoring ON/OFF in case of a planned outage (IPL).
(like ‘maintenance mode')

Idea priority Low
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jun 19, 2015

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - zSeries Software
    Product - Tivoli System Automation for z/OS (SA z/OS)

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Tivoli
    Product family - Automation
    Product - Tivoli System Automation for z/OS (SA z/OS)

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Apr 15, 2013

    Hello Herbert,
    Thank you for this enhancement request. It was discussed in the SA z/OS design team.  We intend to put it into the SA z/OS development plan of a future release, but we cannot commit this.
    Best Regards,
    Raimund Thielker

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