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Status Not under consideration
Workspace IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware
Categories HMC/Support Element (SE)
Created by Guest
Created on Sep 22, 2015

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HMC health self assessment

The HMC is performing more and more functions, many of which do not require a user sitting at the physical HMC, and so if the HMC is suffering from health issues it may not always be noted in a timely fashion and invoking function remotely may fail.
Monitoring the health of the HMC is not a trivial matter either; all we can do today is open an https session and get the front page, but that really does not give an insight into the status of the individual HMC sub-functions.
It would be very helpful for monitoring purposes if the HMC could generate a 'self-assessment' of its own internal health. This should include both predictive error indications as well as actual detected failures.
Since the HMC is an HW platform management appliance the health assessment need to cover both HW and SW aspects. The derived health status should be made available through the HMC Web Services API and provide both query capabilities as well as asynchronous notifications indicating property or status changes. This will allow to implement a monitoring of the HMC health and gain early insights to anticipated and detected HMC health degradation. It will enable reaction to health issues before they impact function of HMC-related processes in our environment.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    |     Feb 1, 2016

    The web services APIs already provide a great deal of information via direct queries and asynchronous notification. Among other things, this includes the status of managed resources such as CPCs and their associated partitions. Details about all of the information available can be found in publication SC27-2627-00a, which is available from resource link at :http://www.ibm.com/servers/resourcelink. Rather than providing a specifc interpretation on what constitutes the health of a managed resource, the intent of the web services APIs is to make as much of the attributes of a managed resource available as possible. This allows each consumer of this data to make it's own determination on the health of these resources. If there is information required for you to make this determination in your automation applications, please identify these ommissions so we can consider if it would be possible to make the data available.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Oct 22, 2015

    Creating a new RFE based on Community RFE #77309 in product z Systems Hardware.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Oct 22, 2015

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - z Systems Hardware
    Product - z Systems Hardware
    Component - HMC/Support Element (SE)
    Operating system - IBM z/OS
    Source - zBLC

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - zBLC family
    Product - zBLC
    Component - zBLC Requirements
    Operating system - IBM z/OS
    Source - zBLC

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