Understanding the SequeLink^® Manager Tool

The SequeLink Manager tool can be used to perform administrative and monitoring requests.

Administrative Requests

The type of administrative requests you can issue to a SequeLink Agent and the SequeLink Manager tool you can use to issue the requests depends on the platform you are administering. The following list describes the types of administrative requests you can issue:

Configuration
Creating and managing SequeLink services
Creating and managing SequeLink server data sources
Configuring monitoring profiles, which determine the data access events that can be monitored (viewed) using the SequeLink Manager
Configuring event-tracing profiles, which determine the data access events that are written to an event trace file
Management
Starting and stopping SequeLink services
Stopping active data access user sessions
Reviewing traced events to analyze a problem during an earlier data access activity

Monitoring Requests

The SequeLink Manager allows you to perform the following monitoring tasks:

Viewing details about active services
Viewing active user sessions and information about live data access activities

For example, you can easily view the number of transactions that have been processed or the number of rows that have been fetched by all user sessions. Also, if a user session is not performing correctly (such as the session repeatedly fetches thousands of rows), you can use the SequeLink Manager to identify and end that specific user session.

Additionally, the SequeLink Manager allows you to troubleshoot previous events. For example, if an error occurs during a nightly data processing job, you can view an event trace to troubleshoot the problem.

SequeLink^® Manager Implementations

SequeLink provides the following implementations of the SequeLink Manager:

SequeLink Manager Snap-in is a GUI designed as a snap-in to the Microsoft Management Console (MMC). It can be used to configure and manage SequeLink services, and to monitor data access activity.
SequeLink Manager Command-Line Tool is a command-line interface that can be used to configure and manage SequeLink services. Similarly, it can be used to monitor data access activity.
SequeLink Manager for z/OS is an ISPF dialog tool that can be used to create data access services on the z/OS platform, as well as configure and manage SequeLink services and monitor data access activity on z/OS. It can be installed only on z/OS platforms.

Table 1-1 shows the platforms on which you can install and run the different implementations of the SequeLink Manager.

Table 1-1. Installation Platforms for the SequeLink Manager Tools

SequeLink Manager	Windows	Linux/UNIX	z/OS
SequeLink Manager Snap-in	X
SequeLink Manager Command-Line Tool	X	X
SequeLink Manager for z/OS			X