Version 4.2.6 for Mainframes
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Accessing Natural Monitor

Natural Monitor (NM) provides response time reporting and user activity analysis for Natural applications running under the Customer Information Control System (CICS).

Within Natural Monitor, most statistics are gathered for a transaction, which occurs each time Enter or a PF key is pressed.

The major features of Natural Monitor include the following:

Monitoring points

The figure above shows significant monitoring points between Natural and Natural Monitor. The Natural Monitor user interface allows the user to display data from these various monitoring points to evaluate performance and fine tune the system.

This section covers the following topics:


Natural Monitor System Menu

Start of instruction setTo access the Natural Monitor System menu

The menu appears as shown below:

 10:12:22                 ***** REVIEW NM UTILITY *****               2006-03-02
                                  - NM Main Menu -
  
  
  
                        Code  Function
  
                         RT   Response Time Subsystem
                         SA   Summary of Active Users
                         TE   Technical Information
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
   Command ===>
   Enter-PF1---PF2---PF3---PF4---PF5---PF6---PF7---PF8---PF9---PF10--PF11--PF12---
         Help        Exit                                                  Canc   

The functions shown on the menu are described in the following table:

Code Function Description
RT Response Time Subsystem Provides information about response times experienced by Natural end users and about heavily used Natural transactions. Reports may also be displayed indicating which Natural transactions are being most heavily used.
SA Summary of Active Users Displays information about the system activity of Natural users who have logged on since the last initialization of CICS.
TE Technical Information Displays environmental information including history session information and control.

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Primary Functions and Subsystems

The Natural Monitor System menu includes three primary functions and one subsystem:

The subsystem is labeled as such. The other items on the menu are primary functions.

The subsystem and the primary functions are reflected in the menu structure of Natural Monitor. The following is a diagram of the Natural Monitor system and the function codes used to access each function.

Note:
See Function Codes and Commands for a discussion of all function codes, PF keys, and commands used within Natural Monitor.

Natural Monitor System Diagram

System diagram

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Data Storage Locations

Natural Monitor uses the Natural system file (FNAT) and the Natural Monitor repository for storing data:

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Accessing Historical Data

Historical data are available for viewing as historical snapshots of previously collected data. Natural Monitor captures historical data only for the Natural Monitor Response Time subsystem. The method used to access historical data is described in section Using Response Time Reports.

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