MSO Monitoring and Statistics

MSO monitoring and statistics provide detailed MVS resource utilization reports for a region or for all users. The information can be viewed immediately online or evaluated in MSOPRINT files.

Four kinds of information are available:

  • On Demand - reports MVS resource statistics for users on an on demand basis.

In this section:

Usage

On Demand

Short On Storage

Monitoring

Usage

On Demand statistics are produced whenever requested. To initiate monitoring, issue the MONITOR=ON command in either the Configuration file or from the MSO or MVS console. Any command can be turned on or off via the console. The extent of information collected is determined by the specific command set issued from the console or configuration file. All output defaults to MSOPRINT except Short on Storage messages that are also sent as non-scrollable messages to the operator console (WTO). Shutdown statistics are always produced and cannot be disabled.


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On Demand

These commands can be issued from MSO/MVS console only. To display statistics based on CONFIG file specifications, type:

F servername,DISPLAY STATS

To display all statistics regardless of CONFIG file specifications, type:

F servername,DISPLAY STATS,ALL

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Short On Storage

SOS_PERCENT = {nn|0}

where:

nn
Is an integer representing a percentage between 0 and 99 percent. The default is 0.

Short on Storage specifies the percentage of storage utilization, which when exceeded, will cause a warning message to be issued via non-scrollable messages to WTO and MSOPRINT. The message destination can be altered with the Enhanced Message Routing Facility.

Enhanced message routing allows MSO installations to control the printing/listing destination of all MSO messages. MSO installations can choose to route messages to the operator's console (WTO) or MSOPRINT or both.

Enhanced message routing is implemented by adding a control character to the MSO messages found in the members MSOERR1 and CMSO1ERR of the PDS prefix.ERRORS.DATA.

Standard MSO error messages look like this:

00000(MSO12345) TEXT

Enhanced routing replaces the blank field in position 16 (before text) with:

b,B

to route the message to both the console and MSOPRINT.

p,P

to route the message to MSOPRINT only.

w,W

to route the message to the console only.

_

Blank defers to the default output destination.

If storage utilization falls below the defined SOS_PERCENT, a message is issued stating that the storage constraint has been relieved and the WTO message is deleted (unless suppressed by the Enhanced Message Routing Facility). The SOS_PERCENT check, if active, is made at every MRM_INTERVAL interval (MSO Resource Manager Interval).

Specifying 0 disables the SOS monitoring facility. SOS monitoring may be enabled or disabled dynamically by setting SOS_PERCENT to a non-0 or 0 value, respectively.

APF authorization is required.


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Monitoring

These commands can be issued from either the MSO or OS/390 consoles.

Using MSO console:

MONITOR = {ON|OFF}

where:

ON
Turns monitoring on.

OFF
Turns monitoring off.

Using OS/390 console:

F servname,MONITOR ={ON|OFF}

where:

ON
Turns monitoring on.

OFF
Turns monitoring off.

MONITOR OFF resets current setting for MN_USER, and for MN_INTERVAL, etc. to original values in the CONFIG file. APF authorization is required.

Using MSO console:

MN_INTERVAL = nnn

where:

nnn
Is an integer indicating the monitoring interval in seconds. The minimum is 30 and the maximum is 3600.

Using OS/390 console:

F servname,MN_INTERVAL = nnn

where:

nnn
Specifies the interval at which to perform monitoring (when active). To turn on monitoring, set MONITOR=ON. Monitoring is then performed at integer multiples of the MRM_INTERVAL (MSO Resource Manager Interval).

Default: 1800 (30 minutes).

APF authorization is required.

Using MSO console:

MN_STORAGE = {OFF|ON}

where:

OFF
Does not include storage statistics if monitoring is active. OFF is the default.

ON
Includes storage statistics if monitoring is active.

Using OS/390 console:

F servname,MN_STORAGE = {OFF|ON}

where:

OFF
Does not include storage statistics if monitoring is active. OFF is the default.

ON
Includes storage statistics if monitoring is active.

To turn monitoring on, set MONITOR=ON.

APF authorization is required.

Using MSO console:

MN_REGION = {OFF|ON}

where:

OFF
Specifies that region statistics are not required when monitoring is active. OFF is the default.

ON
Specifies that region statistics are required when monitoring is active.

Using OS/390 console:

F servname,MN_REGION = {OFF|ON}

where:

OFF
Specifies that region statistics are not required when monitoring is active. OFF is the default.

ON
Includes storage statistics if monitoring is active.

To turn monitoring on, set MONITOR=ON.

APF authorization is required.

Using MSO console:

MN_USERS = {OFF|ALL}

where:

OFF
Curtails monitoring of userids.

ALL
Produces usage statistics for all logged on userids.

Using OS/390 console:

F servname,MN_USERS = {OFF|ALL}

where:

OFF
Curtails monitoring of userids.

ALL
Produces usage statistics for all logged on userids.

To turn monitoring on, set MONITOR=ON.

APF authorization is required.


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