This section provides a quick overview of the MON-Explorer GUI and Service compo- nents. Note: For complete installation and configuration instructions, refer to the MON-Explorer User’s Guide.
MON-Explorer is a Windows PC-based client that communicates with the DIF address space, and the MON-ExplorerHDB database. The PC application has interfaces to the 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 MON-ExplorerHDB database tier used by RTM can be added to collect stor- age management events from MON-RTM for historical and trend analysis.
Figure 4-2.Explorer Client GUI