Mainframe

Monitoring and Management

Integration infrastructure, almost by definition, involves connecting many different platforms. Technologies such as IBM MQ^® are used to connect Linux to Windows to Mainframe and beyond and Nastel’s support of all of these is one reason why it is the number one Integration Infrastructure Management (i2M) company.

Secure Management for Middleware Administrators and Application Teams

A single pane of glass to manage all queue managers on all operating systems
Configuration Management at Scale
Self-service with role-based highly granular security and auditing
Message Management & Testing

Monitoring, Observability, and Alerting

The Nastel Platform combines metrics from the z/OS operating system with the middleware and application metrics to give a complete end to end view
Monitor performance, availability, topologies, and message flows
See deep inside queues & topics
Proactively catch problems and bottlenecks before they impact digital services
Monitor queues, topics, message flows, message rates
Trigger alerts when problems or anomalies are detected
Integrate with ServiceNow, Remedy, Splunk, AppDynamics, and other general-purpose enterprise monitoring and ticketing systems

End-to-End Business Transactions Analytics

There is gold in the messages going through your integration infrastructure (middleware) environment. The messages contain real business data. Many of Nastel’s^® customers perform analytics & alerting on the business itself.

Mainframe Modernization

As customers look to modernize their mainframes they may move their applications and integration infrastructure from z/OS to Linux on Z or to the KVM hypervisor for IBM Z, they may even be exploiting the power of the mainframe by migrating from tradition Windows and Linux servers. The Nastel Platform can back up your middleware and messages and reproduce them in the new environment and run performance tests.

Supported Middlewares

In addition to the cross platform technologies such as IBM MQ, Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, Blockchain etc, Nastel supports the following mainframe integration infrastructures:

z/OS – System Z – IBM Z
IMS – Tracing IBM Information Management Systems (IMS) transactions that have dependencies on CICS and/or WMQ
CICS – Customer Information Control System (CICS) is an application server that provides online transaction management and connectivity for applications on IBM mainframe systems under z/OS and z/VSE.
Db2 – Transaction monitoring capabilities on System Z for Db2