5. Appendix
5.1. Glossary
- Exporter
A server application for exposing metrics to Prometheus
- IBM Z
IBM’s mainframe product line
- Prometheus
A server application for monitoring and alerting
- Z HMC
Hardware Management Console for IBM Z
- Jinja2 expression
A Jinja2 expression (without curly braces). See https://jinja.palletsprojects.com/en/3.1.x/templates/#expressions for a description.
Note that when putting Jinja2 expressions into YAML files, it is recommended to put the expression into double or single quotes. A Jinja2 expression that is a literal string would be e.g.
'abc'
in Jinja2 and would need to be put into double quotes in YAML, e.g.value: "'abc'"
.- Metric service based metrics
Metrics that are retrieved from the HMC using the “Get Metric Context” operation. For more details, see Available metrics.
- Resource property based metrics
Metrics that are obtained from properties of HMC resources. For more details, see Available metrics.
5.2. Bibliography
- HMC API
The Web Services API of the z Systems Hardware Management Console, described in the following books:
- HMC API 2.11.1
IBM SC27-2616, System z Hardware Management Console Web Services API (Version 2.11.1)
- HMC API 2.12.0
IBM SC27-2617, System z Hardware Management Console Web Services API (Version 2.12.0)
- HMC API 2.12.1
IBM SC27-2626, System z Hardware Management Console Web Services API (Version 2.12.1)
- HMC API 2.13.0
IBM SC27-2627, z Systems Hardware Management Console Web Services API (Version 2.13.0)
- HMC API 2.13.1
IBM SC27-2634, z Systems Hardware Management Console Web Services API (Version 2.13.1)
- HMC API 2.14.0
IBM SC27-2636, IBM Z Hardware Management Console Web Services API (Version 2.14.0)
- HMC API 2.14.1
IBM SC27-2637, IBM Z Hardware Management Console Web Services API (Version 2.14.1)
- HMC API 2.15.0
IBM SC27-2638, IBM Z Hardware Management Console Web Services API (Version 2.15.0) (covers both GA1 and GA2)
- HMC Security