Background Monitor – MON-Snapshot can be run as a batch job or started task to take snapshots of a data center’s storage subsystem – Storage Groups, VTOCs, Catalogs, HFS, DFSMS, HSM control files and logs, IBM Tape Libraries, JCL libraries.

MON-RTM can be used to continuously watch storage events, and automatically invoke installation-specified actions when threshold conditions are triggered. This real-time monitor component uses the DADSM and SMF exits to capture storage management events.

Both the snapshot and real-time monitors use installation rules to generate reports, send messages, create files and/or take automated actions.

Interactive Monitor – Storage administrators can also use the Monitor ISPF interface, the PC-based MON-Explorer application, or the MON-iPhone client to make SCC MONitorr function requests, display the results and/or issue commands.

Easy Installation – Monitor requires almost no rule setup.

Monitors status of storage pools and volumes in a data center

• Monitors in real time whenever a storage related event occurs
• Scans volumes and pools to check for free space, fragmentation level, and VTOC index problems
• Provides up-to-date info regarding DASD utilization
• Invokes actions when thresholds are reached

Problem Prevention

• Prevents problems before they occur
• Provides early notification of impending situations (e.g.: dataset migration, expiration, excessive size)
• Aid to capacity planning & problem solving

Automated Process

• Automatically scans volumes
• Automatically invokes actions when thresholds are reached
• Eliminates manual intervention

Integrates with DFSMShsm

• Monitors & controls DFSMShsm
• Displays error records
• Provides statistics

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WEBINARS
ISMF for Non-Storage Administrators	Nov 29 2022	148 MB	65 Minutes
An Introduction to JCL	Jul 26 2022	87.00 MB	60 Minutes
ISMF Functions for Non-Storage-Administrators	Jun 15 2017	123.59 MB	57 Minutes
What’s going on in the Virtual Tape Environment?	Oct 28 2014	75.52 MB	54 Minutes
Extended Address Volumes(EAV) – Rather manage fewer large volumes than many small volumes? You Betcha!	Feb 25 2014	93.56 MB	64 Minutes
Monitor and Reporting for IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape	Nov 07 2013	64.42 MB	42 Minutes
Things Storage Managers need to Monitor – DASD, Tapes, Dlm, Etc	Aug 22 2013	78.82 MB	47 Minutes
Storage Management Software Products – What are They? Do I Need Them? What Can I Do with Them? (Part 2)	Feb 26 2013	107.04 MB	55 Minutes
An Advanced Dashboard Monitor for Virtual Tape Systems	Oct 25 2012	52.44 MB	35 Minutes
Monitor and the New Reporting feature for IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape	Jul 24 2012	73.95 MB	50 Minutes
Preventing Production Problems Before They Occur with DTS Products	Jun 07 2012	94.90 MB	55 Minutes
Managing Your z_OS Storage Environment More Efficiently	Oct 25 2011	99.80 MB	56 Minutes
MARKETING LITERATURE
Datasheet: Advantages Offered by SCC MONitor	Apr 12 2022	359.00 KB
MON vs Competitors	Feb 26 2011	100.48 KB
Storage Monitoring and Automation	Feb 26 2011	49.18 KB
PRODUCT MANUALS
MON-Snapshot User’s Guide	Mar 06 2017	1.65 MB
MON-RTM User’s Guide	Mar 06 2017	531.37 KB
MON-HSM User’s Guide	—	—
MON-ISPF User’s Guide	Mar 06 2017	402.77 KB
MON-Explorer User’s Guide	Mar 06 2017	5.44 MB
MON-iPhone User’s Guide	Mar 06 2017	2.17 MB
Product Installation Guide	Nov 01 2018	1.04 MB
Rule Language Programming Guide	May 24 2018	1.55 MB
SCC Messages Manual	Nov 15 2018	1.02 MB

“SCC MONitor has prevented problems from happening since it’s set up to notify our group if pools fall under set thresholds. The product has some great reporting capabilities, and is used not only by support groups but by some customers have requested access to it. SCC MONitor was easy to install and the support team is the best group I have ever worked with.”

Jim Borus
IBM Global Services
MF Storage Management

“The DTS Software products are wonderful! We would not be able to run without them. We also experience significant cost savings, since the products’ efficiencies allow us to maintain a smaller DASD farm.”

Dave Cebell 
The Dallas Morning News

“We find SCC MONitor extremely useful, especially when combined with automation in order to provide notification to users. We set threshold levels that interface with defined messages that get sent (via email, pager, etc) to users as notification. E.g., “Pool XYZ is 85% full, please make appropriate adjustments”. This monitoring and messaging process provides real-time information without the necessity of manually reviewing it.”

George Arangelovich
ACXIOM

“Recently someone asked me if anyone knows of a product that would replace CA-Vantage……something better & less expensive?  I responded, ‘I know the perfect product – DTS’s SCC MONitor and Explorer’!! 

Last year I replaced CA-Vantage on one of our systems with DTS’s SCC MONitor and Explorer. Monitor is like CA-Vantage in that it monitors pools/storage group utilization, provides real time snap shots of datasets (or scheduled snap shots) and initiates ‘defined actions’ (issue commands/submit jobs) when an event or specific incident occurs.  Explorer is a PC interface much like CA-Vantage’s. The products fit our needs perfectly and the vendor was EXTREMELY helpful with the installation, setup and customization so it worked exactly as needed.”

Jo Hudson
Storage Programmer Senior
Experian

During the early years of our company, the ability to actively monitor a storage subsystem was always near the top of the DTS future projects list. Since DTS develops products that act on storage conditions and events, the future product had to be much more than just a reporting tool.

During the design phase for Monitor, DTS wanted to create the following user interfaces to the product:

• printed reports
• messages
• the creation of customizable fixed format data records for customer processing
• an ISPF interface
• a PC Application for storage administrators

Once the developers defined “storage subsystem”, it took several years to write a product that could read all the different inputs, and then use the rules language to create all the different output formats.

After releasing the first version of Monitor in 1998, DTS created a large body of generic storage management rules and reports that might be useful to a storage administrator.  This was followed by the Monitor ISPF interface.

The original design for SCC MONitor included a PC based GUI application that used a database tier to provide access to both real-time and historical storage management information. DTS tackled this last phase of the Monitor project, and created the first version of SCC Explorer using Java.  Unfortunately, the first design was overly complicated and we learned that Java is not well suited for developing and maintaining GUI applications.

The current release of SCC MONitor includes a new Windows-based version of MON-Explorer. By default, the new application uses a two-tiered implementation – the PC-based GUI makes requests directly to the mainframe-based Monitor.  If an installation requires a large amount of historical information about the storage subsystem, or needs to run frequent complex queries, an optional database tier can be easily added.

After years of hard work, the SCC MONitor and MON-Explorer have the polish of mature software products. They are easy to install and rarely require customization. However, the rules language in Monitor and the scripts used by MON-Explorer allow easy enhancements.

The most recent addition to the Monitor suite has been the MON-iPhone application. The iPhone/iTouch/iPad application communicates through the DTS DIF started task to work with SCC MONitor, MVS Console and TSO commands, system utilities, as well as third party software products. The application can perform storage management and installation defined actions on the host.