IBM Tivoli® OMEGAMON® XE on z/VM® and Linux® is a monitoring agent that provides the ability to view data that is collected from multiple systems on one easy-to-use, flexible interface. It is a part of the OMEGAMON family of software products.

IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON XE on z/VM and Linux enables you to view z/VM data pulled from the Performance Toolkit for VM alongside views of Linux on IBM Z® systems performance data. This multiple view capability helps you solve problems more quickly and manage complex environments more effectively.

Features

• **Monitor processor usage at the system level: **Use the Workload workspace to monitor high CPU utilization by the Control Program as well to find out which z/VM workloads are consuming the most resources.
• **Monitor paging and spooling activity: **If your paging disks have poor response times, you can check whether some of the I/O load has been caused by minidisks with a high activity on the same disk pack.
• **Monitor resources and workloads across LPARs: **OMEGAMON XE on z/VM and Linux provides information about the overall utilization of resources by the logical partitions (LPARs) defined for your system.

Benefits

• **Compare Linux operations side by side: **View Linux operations data side by side with detailed performance metrics from other important systems to understand and resolve issues quickly.
• **Bring related data together: **Use data from the Performance Toolkit for z/VM (a prerequisite for this product) with data collected by the IBM Tivoli Monitoring agent for Linux on Z systems to evaluate system performance.
• **Dynamic workspace linking: **Navigate more easily between Tivoli Enterprise Portal workspaces by using Dynamic Workspace Linking.
• **Monitor workloads for virtual machines: **View and monitor workloads for virtual machines, groups and LPARs and view reports on z/VM and Linux resource usage, such as CPU utilization, storage, mini-disks and TCP/IP.
• **High-level views: **Help your stakeholders understand how systems performance influences the business and the bottom line.
• **Granular views: **Use granular views to more easily track complex problems that span multiple applications, platforms and systems and share related information.