HP XP7 Command View Advanced Edition Mainframe Agent Installation and Configuration Guide (TK981-96005, May 2014)

1 About XP7 mainframe agent
This chapter explains the purpose of XP7 mainframe agent. The chapter also lists XP7 mainframe
agent installation requirements, and provides an example system configuration.
Why use XP7 mainframe agent ?
XP7 mainframe agent is a product you can use to display information about mainframe system storage
on a GUI of Device Manager or Replication Manager. XP7 mainframe agent collects information
about mainframe system storage in response to a request from Device Manager or Replication
Manager, and then passes the collected information to Device Manager or Replication Manager.
XP7 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 can be used to monitor PPRC copy pairs from Replication
Manager.
Installation requirements
This section explains the requirements for using XP7 mainframe agent.
Operating system requirements
XP7 mainframe agent can be used with the following operating systems:
•
z/OS
®
V1R10 to V2R1
CAUTION:
• VM environments are not supported.
• The devices in the alternate subchannel set are not supported.
Application software requirements
The following table lists the XP7 mainframe agent.
Table 1 Programs required to use XP7 mainframe agent
DescriptionOverviewRequiredProgram name
Standard OS component.Communication programRequiredIBM Communications Server
None
IBM
®
security management
product
RequiredSecurity Server (RACF)
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