CICS Statistics Test
This test auto discovers the CICS Transaction servers integrated with the target IBM Integration Bus and reports the numerical statistics of the requests that were successfully and the requests that failed. Using this test administrators can identify the processing ability of the CICS Transaction server and be proactively alerted to processing bottlenecks, if any.
Target of the test : An IBM Integration Bus
Agent deploying the test : An internal/remote agent.
Outputs of the test : One set of results for each Execution group:decision service that is to be monitored
Parameters | Description |
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Test period |
How often should the test be executed. |
Host |
The host for which the test is to be configured. |
Port |
The port on which the specified host listens. |
JNDI Namespace Location |
Indicate where the JNDI namespace has been created. For this, select one of the following options: File or LDAP. Select File if the JNDI namespace is created in the same location as that of the IIB server. |
SSL |
If you have chosen LDAP as the JNDI Namespace Location wherein the LDAP server communicating with the IIB server that is to be monitored is an SSL-enabled server, then set the SSL flag to Yes. By default, this flag is set to No. |
User DN and Password |
Here, provide the credentials of the Active Directory user created as explained in Creating a user in the Active Directory server, if the target IIB server is monitored in an agentless manner. If the IIB server is to be monitored in an agent based manner, specify none against these parameters. |
Confirm Password |
Confirm the Password by retyping it in this text box. |
JNDI Provider URL |
Specify the URL that was specified as the provider URL while creating the initial context. To know the Provider URL, refer to Agent based monitoring of the IIB server if you choose to monitor the target IIB server in an agent based manner and Agentless Monitoring of the IIB server if you chose to monitor the target IIB server in an agentless manner. |
TopicConnectionFactory |
Specify the name of the connection factory in this text box. If you have chosen to monitor the target IIB server in an agent-based manner, refer to Creating a Connection Factory and if you have chosen to monitor the target IIB server in an agentless manner, refer to Creating a Connection Factory. |
JMS Resource Stats |
Specify the name of the JMS destination that you have created for storing the Resource statistics. If you chose to monitor the target IIB server in an agentless manner, refer to Creating the JMS Destinations and if you choose to monitor the target IIB server in an agent based manner, refer to Agent based monitoring of the IIB server. |
JMS Flow Stats |
Specify the name of the JMS destination that you have created for storing the Message flow statistics. If you chose to monitor the target IIB server in an agentless manner, refer to Creating the JMS Destinations and if you choose to monitor the target IIB server in an agent based manner, refer to Agent based monitoring of the IIB server. |
Measurement | Description | Measurement Unit | Interpretation |
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Successful requests |
Indicates the number of requests from the Integration node to this CICS Transaction server that were successful during the last measurement period. |
Number |
A high value is desired for this measure. If the value of this measure is decreasing alarmingly, then it may indicate a performance bottleneck/slowdown of the server/network. |
Request failures |
Indicates the total number of requests to this CICS Transaction server that failed during the last measurement period. |
Number |
The value of this measure does not include the value of the Connection attempt failures measure. |
Requests failed due to security validations |
Indicates the number of requests to this CICS Transaction server that failed due to security validation during the last measurement period. |
Number |
The requests may fail due to security issues such as authentication failure, improper port configuration etc. |
Connection attempt failures |
Indicates the number of connections to this CICS Transaction server that failed during the last measurement period. |
Number |
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