Critical z/OS events on the central Tivoli Enterprise console

Situation:
The Tivoli Enterprise Console (TEC) is used for system monitoring throughout the entire enterprise. Using a multitude of adapters on many different types of platform, security critical events are brought together at the Tivoli console, and system operability and security is monitored centrally. To achieve a central point of control, important z/OS events from the host system need to be monitored here, too.

Complications:
IBM/Tivoli do not offer a TEC adapter. A developer toolkit is available to enable the integration of the z/OS platform into the central monitoring system, but this requires a good deal of time, effort and experience. Development staff simply aren't available to tackle a task like this.

Solution:
It's quite simple: in addition to its other capabilities, Beta 89 zSecurity Monitor comes complete with all the class definitions needed for TEC and can thus be used as a Tivoli TEC adapter.
To ensure high performance despite the huge quantities of data supplied by the z/OS SMF log, Beta 89 provides powerful filtering capabilities at the z/OS end.