London W1-based Candle Service Ltd has launched Omegacenter, a performance management system that integrates its AF/Operator, AF/Remote and Omegamon software with a centralised status monitor which manages total systems performance from a single point of control. The technology that made the development of this monitor possible is the SSPL Dialog Manager which was acquired from […]
London W1-based Candle Service Ltd has launched Omegacenter, a performance management system that integrates its AF/Operator, AF/Remote and Omegamon software with a centralised status monitor which manages total systems performance from a single point of control. The technology that made the development of this monitor possible is the SSPL Dialog Manager which was acquired from the Chicago-based company Netserve in 1987. This Dialog Manager enables multiple system and multiple location information to pass between VTAM and the user so that an entire VTAM network can be interrogated, but the resulting mass of information that reaches the screen will be formatted to look as if it comes from one single application. Using the Omegacenter, up to 34 MVS systems, subsystems such as CICS, IMS and DB2, or geographical regions can be monitored and controlled centrally from one screen. The status monitor talks to Omegamons and automatically shows the progress of performance exceptions, online response times and disk activity via a three colour light system: green denotes that performance is meeting service levels, amber that an area is in danger of failing and red that service levels are not being met. Furthermore, the Status Monitor has 20 to 30 routines enabling some exceptions to be automated, giving information about impact analysis and the timimg of a job, and notifying the human monitor if there is problem and whether any action is required, as well as whether a person in another data centre is dealing with the matter. The basic software that makes up the Omegacenter for a standard 48 MVS environment in a greenfield site will cost UKP85,000, with the various subsystems software adding to that cost. Essentially the Omegacenter is seen by Candle as a package that will interest data centres in greenfield sites, and as a target for older customers to upgrade to. It is available now and Candle has already taken an order from an unidentified UK insurance company.
