MON-Explorer is a Windows PC-based applicaton that provides an excellent user inter- face to SCC Monitor. Many of the functions and capabilities available in Monitor have ready-made interfaces already defined in the Explorer PC client.
The Explorer communicates through the DIF address space to work with DIF console commands, SCC Monitor, MVS Console and TSO commands, system utilities, as well as third party software products. The Explorer can use these interfaces to gather and display information in a variety of formats, reports and graphs. The product can also perform storage management and installation defined actions on the mainframe.
An optional database tier can be added to collect storage management events for historical analysis. The database tier would only be required if your installation recognizes the need for frequent real time access to complex queries.
Figure 2-2.Explorer Client GUI