Orchestration Monitor overview

The Orchestration Monitor gives you granular control over your plan, enabling you to take direct action over every item in your plan.

Queries

You can use queries to search for specific items, and from there you can take direct control by performing manually a range of actions, depending on which item you have queried. Queries can also be saved and shared with other users or groups, to speed up your monitoring operations.

Tree view

A tree view is available to let you monitor your workload through the folders that contain the items in your plan. The tree view is updated in real time, so that you can always be aware of the folder system that contains the items you are monitoring.

Dependencies

Using the Dependencies action, you can monitor all the dependencies of job or a job stream displayed in a graphical way through a tile system. You can manually take action on the dependencies, releasing them or editing them for the job and job streams in your plan.

Operator instructions

When monitoring jobs and job streams, operators can access the Operator instructions panel from the More actions menu to retrieve definition information from the Description and Documentation fields. The availability of this information within the Orchestration Monitor facilitates rapid comprehension of job or job stream parameters during monitoring activities.

The Operator instructions panel displays definition information based on the selected item. For a job stream, the panel presents the content of the Description and Documentation fields from the job stream definition. For a job, the panel displays three sections:

Job stream

Displays the Description and Documentation fields of the job stream to which the selected job instance belongs.

Job instance

Displays the Description and Documentation fields of the selected job instance.

Job definition

Displays the Description field of the job definition referenced by the selected job instance.

Workflow details

Using the Workflow details panel, you can monitor information about plug-in jobs and list the operations that you have performed on the whole job or on one or more files in the job.

For z/OS users: To monitor your plug-in jobs from a Dynamic Workload Console different from the console where the job was defined, ensure that you stored the plug-in job' s jar file into the <DWC_home>/usr/servers/dwcServer/resources/lib/zconn/applicationJobPlugIn folder.

Monitor certificate expiration

The certificate expiration date for workstations is now visible in the results table when querying for workstations. You can make the certificate expiration column visible from the Table configuration menu.

For more information on how to use the Orchestration Monitor, see this Orchestration Monitor scenario

For details about how to add a z/OS engine to the list of discovered engines that are available from the Orchestration Monitor, see Mirroring the z/OS current plan to enable the Orchestration Monitor.