HP P9000 Command View Advanced Edition Software Mainframe Agent Installation and Configuration Guide

1 About P9000 mainframe agent
This chapter explains the purpose of P9000 mainframe agent. The chapter also lists P9000 mainframe
agent installation requirements, and provides an example system configuration.
Why use P9000 mainframe agent ?
P9000 mainframe agent is a product you can use to display information about mainframe system
storage on a GUI of Device Manager or Replication Manager software. P9000 mainframe agent
collects information about mainframe system storage in response to a request from Device Manager
or Replication Manager software, and then passes the collected information to Device Manager or
Replication Manager software.
P9000 mainframe agent allows you to manage both open system and mainframe system storage by
using Device Manager only, thus reducing the work and cost of storage management.
Note that linkage with Replication Manager software can be used to monitor PPRC copy pairs from
Replication Manager software.
Installation requirements
This section explains the requirements for using P9000 mainframe agent.
Operating system requirements
P9000 mainframe agent can be used with the following operating systems:
• OS/390 V2R10
• z/OS V1R1 to V1R12
If you want to connect Device Manager or Replication Manager software to P9000 mainframe
agent by using IPv6, the only versions of z/OS that can be used are V1R9 or later.
CAUTION:
• VM environments are not supported.
• The devices in the alternate subchannel set are not supported.
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