Each MCP host system and each MCP operating system partition that you manage are represented by a single icon in an Operations Sentinel Console. Hereafter, the term MCP host system refers to both MCP host systems and MCP partitions.
The icons in the Operations Sentinel Console show alarm conditions and connection status and provide a way for starting terminal emulation sessions, launching external applications, and displaying properties for individual host systems.
Managing and controlling MCP host systems are some of the many capabilities of Operations Sentinel. The Operations Sentinel is installed on a Windows server called the Operations Sentinel server. A software component, the Operations Sentinel Interface for ClearPath MCP (hereafter referred to as the interface software), is installed on each MCP host system that is to be managed.
An SP-AMS database consists of a set of automation rules. Although you may need to adapt some rules for each MCP host, Unisys supplies automation rules that encompass everything else you need.
The full range of Operations Sentinel capabilities is available to manage and control each MCP host system. These capabilities include the following:
Logging message traffic
Viewing logged messages
Managing system and disk utilization parameters, and displaying tables and bar charts of these parameters
Displaying alarms
Performing external actions when an alarm is raised, acknowledged, or cleared, including automatically dialing pagers
Viewing message traffic on a terminal emulation session running as a remote operator display terminal (ODT)
Entering commands from a terminal emulation session running as a remote ODT
Automating system operation using Single Point Autoaction Message System (SP-AMS)
Monitoring hardware and software components and application programs using Operations Sentinel
Launching site-supplied external applications on behalf of a host system
An SP-AMS database must be active on the Operations Sentinel server to enable communications between the interface software and the Operations Sentinel server to work together. Before a host system can send data to the Operations Sentinel server, the SP-AMS database must send a valid usercode and password to the interface software. You may need to edit and compile your SP-AMS database to insert the appropriate usercodes and passwords for your systems.