How do you discover, record, document, maintain, and display z/OS network topology.
We've got LPARs, SNA, and TCPIP, OSAs & HiperSockets, IP/DNS, Static and Dynamic routing, Sysplexes, DVIPA, EE, Coupling Facilities, Network switches, multiple CECs, zOS, zVM, Linux on z, and a Disaster Recovery counterpart for it all. In managing your network and explaining it to others, what visuals do you use? What visual perspectives are most useful? By LPAR, TCPIP stack, Sysplex, Network switch, a single application view across the entire network Do you discover by manual commands, draw on paper or Visio? Pulling from HCD IOGEN? Pictures provided by your HMC? (anybody remember GDDM?) Any z/OS functions, features gather the raw data and produce colorful pictures on your PC? Suggest any vendor tools for this purpose? After many happy years in zOS and DFSMS, I've wandered into the darkness of an uncharted network cloud . I'd like to know what's in this network, what it's connected to, and why. No suggestion, idea, or answer is considered too simple or too obvious. Yes, I've already RTFMs. Google and I are BFF's. I'll be at SHARE in Providence. Email me on the list, off the list, or catch me next week Thanks in Advance! Lynette Pope Regions Financial Corporation Mainframe Technical Support z/OS Systems Engineer Riverchase Operations Center - 3F7-4 lynette.p...@regions.com<mailto:lynette.p...@regions.com> (205) 261-5164 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
