This example uses the WUI to shows how to monitor the activity of a set of programs (programs whose names begin with the letters PAY) as they are used in a group of CICS® systems (AORs CICSPA01, CICSPA02, and CICSPA03) in CICSplex PLXPROD1. In this example, the monitoring is to be regular: that is, it will be activated, for each CICS system, from 0800 hours to 1700 hours. CICS systems CICSPA01 and CICSPA03 are running. For none of the three CICS systems is monitoring currently switched on.
Create a time period definition.
Because you want the monitor definition MODPAY01 to be installed automatically whenever any of the CICS systems in group CSGAORS1 starts, you must add MODPAY01 to a monitor group.
You’ll notice that the monitor specification MOSPAY01 is the one you created in the previous example (Monitoring transaction response times). Instead of creating a new monitor specification for this example, you can reuse an existing specification. (This is important, because a CICS system or CICS system group can be associated with only one monitor specification at a time.) However, you still need to update monitor specification MOSPAY01.
Any change you make to the CICS system definitions with the CICS system definition view takes effect when those CICS systems are next started. However, CICS systems CICSPA01 and CICSPA03 are currently running. To switch monitoring on for those systems immediately, you must also update their definitions with the Runtime MAS display view. (How to do this is shown in the previous example, in step 5).
You can look at the data that CICSPlex SM is gathering by looking at the Program monitoring views. From the main menu, click Monitoring views-->Program monitoring views-->Monitor data for programs and clicking on the entry for PAY* . This opens a view showing detailed information (such as usage counts and average fetch times), about programs PAY* in CICS system group CSGAORS1. Whenever you click Refresh, the data in the view is redisplayed. However the frequency with which the data changes is dictated by the resource sample interval. In this example, the data changes at most every five minutes.