12 Chapter 12. Monitoring systems This chapter briefly describes how to monitor z/VM and Linux, and System z hardware while they are performing several functions. There are a number of z/VM monitoring tools, such as Computer Associates' VM:Monitor, IBM z/VM Performance Toolkit, IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON for z/VM, and Velocity Software's ESALPS. Only the IBM z/VM Performance Toolkit is briefly described in this section. For more information about Computer Associates' VM:Monitor, see: http://www.ca.com/ For more information about Velocity's ESALPS, see: http://www.velocitysoftware.com/ For more information about IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON for z/VM, see: http://www-306.ibm.com/software/tivoli/products/omegamon-zvm/ This chapter describes the following topics: Using indicate and other commands The z/VM Performance Toolkit Creating performance reports with Performance Toolkit Monitoring Linux information with RMF PMS Using the OSA-Express SNMP subagent Using OSA/SF on z/VM DASD statistics © Copyright IBM Corp. 2006. All rights reserved. 163