Monitor LPARs and regions

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IBM Z mainframes are equipped with a variety of configuration options, including different processor types for special purposes. The most important processor types are the general-purpose central processor (GCP) and the System z Integrated Information Processor (zIIP). You can optimize your expenses by moving workloads from GPUs to zIIPs, because the latter are not subject to license costs and maintenance fees.

Dynatrace can help you to achieve such a cost-effective IBM Z configuration by providing infrastructure metrics for LPARs (represented as Hosts) and regions (represented as Processes).

All metrics listed below are provided by the zDC subsystem as builtin metrics.

LPAR metrics

On the host level, Dynatrace provides you with the following metrics:

Additionally, Dynatrace provides you with the following system data:

  • CPU model and serial number
  • Number of GCPs and zIIPs
  • Total physical memory

The number of processors provides you an overview of the current system configuration, while the CPU model and serial number help you to identify the correct "replacement part" if something is broken.

Host level metric

Region metrics

On the process level, Dynatrace provides you with the following metrics:

Process level metric