openFT provides the option of monitoring and displaying a range of characteristic data for openFT operation. The data falls into three categories:
Throughput, e.g. total network throughput caused by openFT
Duration, e.g. processing time for asynchronous jobs
State, e.g. number of requests currently queued
The FT administrator can enable monitoring data acquisition in order to gain an idea of the type of load. However, monitoring data acquisition should not be permanently enabled since this impairs performance.
The following options are available for the FT administrator
Activating and deactivating monitoring
Selective monitoring based on the partner type
Selective monitoring based on the request type
Once the settings have been selected, they are retained until the FT administrator explicitly changes them. This means that they also remain unchanged after the computer has been rebooted.
Showing monitoring data
If monitoring is activated the monitoring data can be called up on the local system or from a remote system.
In principle, all users can read the monitoring data. However, in practice, it is the task of the FT administrator to analyze the data since he or she is the only person who has an overview of the entire system and is able to modify the operating parameters.
The monitoring values are output as a table.
On Unix and Windows systems, the monitoring data can also be displayed via the graphical user interface provided by the openFT Monitor. The openFT Monitor possesses "remote" capability, i.e. it can also display the monitoring values for remote systems. In the case of mainframe systems such as BS2000 or z/OS, this capability can be used as follows:
On the mainframe system, the FT administrator sets up a special admission profile that is specified when the openFT Monitor is called and causes only the monitoring values to be read and transferred. The admission profile uses the keyword *FTMONITOR as preprocessing command. HOSTMONITOR, for example, can be specified as the transfer admission.
On the Unix or Windows system, you specify the mainframe system with the transfer admission HOSTMONITOR when calling the FT Monitor. The FT Monitor outputs a graphical display of the mainframe monitoring values.
On Windows systems, it is also possible to display the monitoring data via the Windows Performance Monitor.