IBM i Global

Hello IBM Champions,

I just wanted to understand which is the better Monitoring and Alerting tool for iSeries in the current market. 

My current monitoring tool is Nagios, but we feel the current monitoring tool is not intended at times, so planning for a new one for our existing systems. I'm also thinking about Halcyon Monitoring software and "ManageEngine site24x7", Nagios and site24x7 are both plugin based, so I'm still not sure if site24x7 gives accurate results.

Please suggest.

My Requirements:

1.) Monitor all the necessary probes in iSeries, for ex: CPU, Check if backup job failed, Check if IFS folder file count reaches threshold, etc.

2.) Performance Dashboards, like CPU, DASD, RAM etc.

3.) Should be visible to see a system performance in a central view

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Avinash Chandra Mandavilli
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Dear Avinash

For item 2 and 3, I see that you do not need to buy any tool for these purposes (Dashboard type info is not a good thing to have for IBM i - it is more suitable for Intel servers in general) because IBM i already provides a free great performance report tool named IBM i Performance Data Investigator (PDI).  Please take time to read my articles about using PDI tool to solve real-world performance problems here and you may see how useful PDI tool can be :  https://www.itjungle.com/author/satid-singkorapoom/ 

Hello IBM Champions,

I just wanted to understand which is the better Monitoring and Alerting tool for iSeries in the current market. 

My current monitoring tool is Nagios, but we feel the current monitoring tool is not intended at times, so planning for a new one for our existing systems. I'm also thinking about Halcyon Monitoring software and "ManageEngine site24x7", Nagios and site24x7 are both plugin based, so I'm still not sure if site24x7 gives accurate results.

Please suggest.

My Requirements:

1.) Monitor all the necessary probes in iSeries, for ex: CPU, Check if backup job failed, Check if IFS folder file count reaches threshold, etc.

2.) Performance Dashboards, like CPU, DASD, RAM etc.

3.) Should be visible to see a system performance in a central view

------------------------------
Avinash Chandra Mandavilli
------------------------------

Hello IBM Champions,

I just wanted to understand which is the better Monitoring and Alerting tool for iSeries in the current market. 

My current monitoring tool is Nagios, but we feel the current monitoring tool is not intended at times, so planning for a new one for our existing systems. I'm also thinking about Halcyon Monitoring software and "ManageEngine site24x7", Nagios and site24x7 are both plugin based, so I'm still not sure if site24x7 gives accurate results.

Please suggest.

My Requirements:

1.) Monitor all the necessary probes in iSeries, for ex: CPU, Check if backup job failed, Check if IFS folder file count reaches threshold, etc.

2.) Performance Dashboards, like CPU, DASD, RAM etc.

3.) Should be visible to see a system performance in a central view

------------------------------
Avinash Chandra Mandavilli
------------------------------

Hi Avinash ,

We use CONTROL4I which is a very good tool to monitor your system using NAGIOS.

They have are a lot of standard checks and you can create you own if needed.

And, also important , the support is top

You can have a look at https://www.m81.eu/

regards

Paul

Hello IBM Champions,

I just wanted to understand which is the better Monitoring and Alerting tool for iSeries in the current market. 

My current monitoring tool is Nagios, but we feel the current monitoring tool is not intended at times, so planning for a new one for our existing systems. I'm also thinking about Halcyon Monitoring software and "ManageEngine site24x7", Nagios and site24x7 are both plugin based, so I'm still not sure if site24x7 gives accurate results.

Please suggest.

My Requirements:

1.) Monitor all the necessary probes in iSeries, for ex: CPU, Check if backup job failed, Check if IFS folder file count reaches threshold, etc.

2.) Performance Dashboards, like CPU, DASD, RAM etc.

3.) Should be visible to see a system performance in a central view

------------------------------
Avinash Chandra Mandavilli
------------------------------

Thank you, Paul, for the recommendation.

We are currently using Nagios, because the alerts are not receiving intended at times. so, I would like to know on the following. 

1.) Do you see any lags with this tool, I mean does it capture the monitoring at precise time and sending the email alerts?

2.) Can you pls send me one sample screenshot of "CPU alert" to see how it looks? Incase if you are interested :)

3.) Currently, we have Nagios and do we need to integrate this with Control4i 

Hi Avinash ,

We use CONTROL4I which is a very good tool to monitor your system using NAGIOS.

They have are a lot of standard checks and you can create you own if needed.

And, also important , the support is top

You can have a look at https://www.m81.eu/

regards

Paul

Hello IBM Champions,

I just wanted to understand which is the better Monitoring and Alerting tool for iSeries in the current market. 

My current monitoring tool is Nagios, but we feel the current monitoring tool is not intended at times, so planning for a new one for our existing systems. I'm also thinking about Halcyon Monitoring software and "ManageEngine site24x7", Nagios and site24x7 are both plugin based, so I'm still not sure if site24x7 gives accurate results.

Please suggest.

My Requirements:

1.) Monitor all the necessary probes in iSeries, for ex: CPU, Check if backup job failed, Check if IFS folder file count reaches threshold, etc.

2.) Performance Dashboards, like CPU, DASD, RAM etc.

3.) Should be visible to see a system performance in a central view

------------------------------
Avinash Chandra Mandavilli
------------------------------

Hello Avinash

There are many products that allow to monitor the IT infrastructure (in fact, any system that has an IP address). Nagios is one of them, but also Icinga, Shinken, Zabbix, PRTG, …)

Most of them have very few checks for the IBM i.

The product Control for i is a complement to all those monitoring products. It brings about 170 checks specialized for IBM I, like for example:

• Check CPU (overall or for a subsystem)
• Check disk space (overall or an iASP)
• Check subsystem and jobs
• Check backups
• Check HA (Mimix, Quick EDH, iTera, …)
• Check IFS
• Check web services
• Check the WRKPRB
• Etc

And it's possible to create new checks by using IBM I programs (RPG or CLP for example)

Control for I has not his own console, it works in the IBM i sending their data to Nagios for example. 

To answer to your questions:

1/ If Nagios (or any other tool) is well configured and there is no network issue, the response time for the alerts is very good, without any lags.

And the alerts are send immediately

3/ Control for I is based on 1 (only 1) plugin to integrate in Nagios, and an agent (library + subsystem) to install on each partition to monitor.

It's VERY easy to install and configure (less than 1 hour)

And to answer to "ace ace"

Yes, there are many SQL requests that ca be used to find many information.

But you still need a product or tool (like Nagios for example) to manage all those checks, and send the alerts.

And you have to write the programs yourself on Linux side.

If your job is to work daily on IBM I, you may be more familiar with a command like CTCHKCPU SBS(QINTER) than with a program like check_ibmi_cpu -l QSYS -s QINTER

Thank you, Paul, for the recommendation.

We are currently using Nagios, because the alerts are not receiving intended at times. so, I would like to know on the following. 

1.) Do you see any lags with this tool, I mean does it capture the monitoring at precise time and sending the email alerts?

2.) Can you pls send me one sample screenshot of "CPU alert" to see how it looks? Incase if you are interested :)

3.) Currently, we have Nagios and do we need to integrate this with Control4i 

Hi Avinash ,

We use CONTROL4I which is a very good tool to monitor your system using NAGIOS.

They have are a lot of standard checks and you can create you own if needed.

And, also important , the support is top

You can have a look at https://www.m81.eu/

regards

Paul

Hello IBM Champions,

I just wanted to understand which is the better Monitoring and Alerting tool for iSeries in the current market. 

My current monitoring tool is Nagios, but we feel the current monitoring tool is not intended at times, so planning for a new one for our existing systems. I'm also thinking about Halcyon Monitoring software and "ManageEngine site24x7", Nagios and site24x7 are both plugin based, so I'm still not sure if site24x7 gives accurate results.

Please suggest.

My Requirements:

1.) Monitor all the necessary probes in iSeries, for ex: CPU, Check if backup job failed, Check if IFS folder file count reaches threshold, etc.

2.) Performance Dashboards, like CPU, DASD, RAM etc.

3.) Should be visible to see a system performance in a central view

------------------------------
Avinash Chandra Mandavilli
------------------------------

Hello Avinash

There are many products that allow to monitor the IT infrastructure (in fact, any system that has an IP address). Nagios is one of them, but also Icinga, Shinken, Zabbix, PRTG, …)

Most of them have very few checks for the IBM i.

The product Control for i is a complement to all those monitoring products. It brings about 170 checks specialized for IBM I, like for example:

• Check CPU (overall or for a subsystem)
• Check disk space (overall or an iASP)
• Check subsystem and jobs
• Check backups
• Check HA (Mimix, Quick EDH, iTera, …)
• Check IFS
• Check web services
• Check the WRKPRB
• Etc

And it's possible to create new checks by using IBM I programs (RPG or CLP for example)

Control for I has not his own console, it works in the IBM i sending their data to Nagios for example. 

To answer to your questions:

1/ If Nagios (or any other tool) is well configured and there is no network issue, the response time for the alerts is very good, without any lags.

And the alerts are send immediately

3/ Control for I is based on 1 (only 1) plugin to integrate in Nagios, and an agent (library + subsystem) to install on each partition to monitor.

It's VERY easy to install and configure (less than 1 hour)

And to answer to "ace ace"

Yes, there are many SQL requests that ca be used to find many information.

But you still need a product or tool (like Nagios for example) to manage all those checks, and send the alerts.

And you have to write the programs yourself on Linux side.

If your job is to work daily on IBM I, you may be more familiar with a command like CTCHKCPU SBS(QINTER) than with a program like check_ibmi_cpu -l QSYS -s QINTER

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Andreu Rul

Original Message:
Sent: Wed September 06, 2023 02:56 AM
From: Avinash Chandra Mandavilli
Subject: Monitoring and Alerting Tool for IBMi

Thank you, Paul, for the recommendation.

We are currently using Nagios, because the alerts are not receiving intended at times. so, I would like to know on the following. 

1.) Do you see any lags with this tool, I mean does it capture the monitoring at precise time and sending the email alerts?

2.) Can you pls send me one sample screenshot of "CPU alert" to see how it looks? Incase if you are interested :)

3.) Currently, we have Nagios and do we need to integrate this with Control4i 

------------------------------
Avinash Chandra Mandavilli

Original Message:
Sent: Wed September 06, 2023 02:40 AM
From: Paul Hemeleers
Subject: Monitoring and Alerting Tool for IBMi

Hi Avinash ,

We use CONTROL4I which is a very good tool to monitor your system using NAGIOS.

They have are a lot of standard checks and you can create you own if needed.

And, also important , the support is top

You can have a look at https://www.m81.eu/

regards

Paul

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Paul Hemeleers

Original Message:
Sent: Tue September 05, 2023 02:44 AM
From: Avinash Chandra Mandavilli
Subject: Monitoring and Alerting Tool for IBMi

Hello IBM Champions,

I just wanted to understand which is the better Monitoring and Alerting tool for iSeries in the current market. 

My current monitoring tool is Nagios, but we feel the current monitoring tool is not intended at times, so planning for a new one for our existing systems. I'm also thinking about Halcyon Monitoring software and "ManageEngine site24x7", Nagios and site24x7 are both plugin based, so I'm still not sure if site24x7 gives accurate results.

Please suggest.

My Requirements:

1.) Monitor all the necessary probes in iSeries, for ex: CPU, Check if backup job failed, Check if IFS folder file count reaches threshold, etc.

2.) Performance Dashboards, like CPU, DASD, RAM etc.

3.) Should be visible to see a system performance in a central view

------------------------------
Avinash Chandra Mandavilli
------------------------------

Hello IBM Champions,

I just wanted to understand which is the better Monitoring and Alerting tool for iSeries in the current market. 

My current monitoring tool is Nagios, but we feel the current monitoring tool is not intended at times, so planning for a new one for our existing systems. I'm also thinking about Halcyon Monitoring software and "ManageEngine site24x7", Nagios and site24x7 are both plugin based, so I'm still not sure if site24x7 gives accurate results.

Please suggest.

My Requirements:

1.) Monitor all the necessary probes in iSeries, for ex: CPU, Check if backup job failed, Check if IFS folder file count reaches threshold, etc.

2.) Performance Dashboards, like CPU, DASD, RAM etc.

3.) Should be visible to see a system performance in a central view

------------------------------
Avinash Chandra Mandavilli
------------------------------

Besides the native (and good) IBMi tools to monitor and introspect in detail, yes, it is common that one wants to monitor the IBMi partition(s) from a central monitoring tools, with simple indicators and timeseries, historical graphing, quick health checks, all in the context among other monitored system for overview of the infrastructure.

I personally don't like Nagios and I don't use it (there are other commercial competitors, not so costly, much quicker to set and use, with good alerting and with support etc.), but any monitoring tool with the generic capability to query a SNMP value *and* additionally via a DB query via a standard SQL interface (like ODBC) could obtain any relevant information needed.

If not in crude SNMP MIB, basically nowadays an IBMi can expose (via builtin SQL services for i or a custom routine) any kind of information.

And IBMi has SNMP service (at least the system mib I think)... I use to track "simple numbers like nr of jobs, users, cpu over time quickly.

i.e.

uptime, CPU, ASP usage, resource usage etc. = you can just use the light SNMP 

Check if backup failed = just issue an sql query to check the log for the relevant log entry mapping it to what is expected by the monitoring tool

Check if IFS folder = just issue an sql query to count the file in folder etc.

Any decent tool that call itself monitoring tool capable of using SQL to track data would do the job.

Ibmi services on sql:

https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/ibm-i-services-sql

SNMP on IBMi

https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/ibm-i-snmp-overview

Hello IBM Champions,

I just wanted to understand which is the better Monitoring and Alerting tool for iSeries in the current market. 

My current monitoring tool is Nagios, but we feel the current monitoring tool is not intended at times, so planning for a new one for our existing systems. I'm also thinking about Halcyon Monitoring software and "ManageEngine site24x7", Nagios and site24x7 are both plugin based, so I'm still not sure if site24x7 gives accurate results.

Please suggest.

My Requirements:

1.) Monitor all the necessary probes in iSeries, for ex: CPU, Check if backup job failed, Check if IFS folder file count reaches threshold, etc.

2.) Performance Dashboards, like CPU, DASD, RAM etc.

3.) Should be visible to see a system performance in a central view

------------------------------
Avinash Chandra Mandavilli
------------------------------

Hello IBM Champions,

I just wanted to understand which is the better Monitoring and Alerting tool for iSeries in the current market. 

My current monitoring tool is Nagios, but we feel the current monitoring tool is not intended at times, so planning for a new one for our existing systems. I'm also thinking about Halcyon Monitoring software and "ManageEngine site24x7", Nagios and site24x7 are both plugin based, so I'm still not sure if site24x7 gives accurate results.

Please suggest.

My Requirements:

1.) Monitor all the necessary probes in iSeries, for ex: CPU, Check if backup job failed, Check if IFS folder file count reaches threshold, etc.

2.) Performance Dashboards, like CPU, DASD, RAM etc.

3.) Should be visible to see a system performance in a central view

------------------------------
Avinash Chandra Mandavilli
------------------------------

We use ICOM400.  It's quite a basic tool but has a small footprint and can send email alerts.  We've had it for years and its cheap.

Lately I'm writing my own monitoring/alerting using SQL PL and leveraging SQL functions.  Things like "Check if IFS folder file count reaches threshold" are super easy to do with SQL.

I guess tying it all together into a pretty dashboard is really what you're paying for.

Hello IBM Champions,

I just wanted to understand which is the better Monitoring and Alerting tool for iSeries in the current market. 

My current monitoring tool is Nagios, but we feel the current monitoring tool is not intended at times, so planning for a new one for our existing systems. I'm also thinking about Halcyon Monitoring software and "ManageEngine site24x7", Nagios and site24x7 are both plugin based, so I'm still not sure if site24x7 gives accurate results.

Please suggest.

My Requirements:

1.) Monitor all the necessary probes in iSeries, for ex: CPU, Check if backup job failed, Check if IFS folder file count reaches threshold, etc.

2.) Performance Dashboards, like CPU, DASD, RAM etc.

3.) Should be visible to see a system performance in a central view

------------------------------
Avinash Chandra Mandavilli
------------------------------

Hi ,

I have included some printscreens from control4i.

It's 5250 based , so easy to use and stable ��

I can recommend this product to everyone who need a simple to use monitoring tool together with Nagios or Centreon  (and others).

Above some examples of basic checks included in the tool but you can create your own checks.

regards

Paul HEMELEERS

I

 

We use ICOM400.  It's quite a basic tool but has a small footprint and can send email alerts.  We've had it for years and its cheap.

Lately I'm writing my own monitoring/alerting using SQL PL and leveraging SQL functions.  Things like "Check if IFS folder file count reaches threshold" are super easy to do with SQL.

I guess tying it all together into a pretty dashboard is really what you're paying for.

Hello IBM Champions,

I just wanted to understand which is the better Monitoring and Alerting tool for iSeries in the current market. 

My current monitoring tool is Nagios, but we feel the current monitoring tool is not intended at times, so planning for a new one for our existing systems. I'm also thinking about Halcyon Monitoring software and "ManageEngine site24x7", Nagios and site24x7 are both plugin based, so I'm still not sure if site24x7 gives accurate results.

Please suggest.

My Requirements:

1.) Monitor all the necessary probes in iSeries, for ex: CPU, Check if backup job failed, Check if IFS folder file count reaches threshold, etc.

2.) Performance Dashboards, like CPU, DASD, RAM etc.

3.) Should be visible to see a system performance in a central view

------------------------------
Avinash Chandra Mandavilli
------------------------------

Thank you so much Paul for sharing the sample screenshots. 

For example:  can we also setup to receive an alert "when QBATCH jobs are greater than or equal to 10 "?

Hi ,

I have included some printscreens from control4i.

It's 5250 based , so easy to use and stable ��

I can recommend this product to everyone who need a simple to use monitoring tool together with Nagios or Centreon  (and others).

Above some examples of basic checks included in the tool but you can create your own checks.

regards

Paul HEMELEERS

I

 

We use ICOM400.  It's quite a basic tool but has a small footprint and can send email alerts.  We've had it for years and its cheap.

Lately I'm writing my own monitoring/alerting using SQL PL and leveraging SQL functions.  Things like "Check if IFS folder file count reaches threshold" are super easy to do with SQL.

I guess tying it all together into a pretty dashboard is really what you're paying for.

Hello IBM Champions,

I just wanted to understand which is the better Monitoring and Alerting tool for iSeries in the current market. 

My current monitoring tool is Nagios, but we feel the current monitoring tool is not intended at times, so planning for a new one for our existing systems. I'm also thinking about Halcyon Monitoring software and "ManageEngine site24x7", Nagios and site24x7 are both plugin based, so I'm still not sure if site24x7 gives accurate results.

Please suggest.

My Requirements:

1.) Monitor all the necessary probes in iSeries, for ex: CPU, Check if backup job failed, Check if IFS folder file count reaches threshold, etc.

2.) Performance Dashboards, like CPU, DASD, RAM etc.

3.) Should be visible to see a system performance in a central view

------------------------------
Avinash Chandra Mandavilli
------------------------------

Thank you so much Paul for sharing the sample screenshots. 

For example:  can we also setup to receive an alert "when QBATCH jobs are greater than or equal to 10 "?

Hi ,

I have included some printscreens from control4i.

It's 5250 based , so easy to use and stable ��

I can recommend this product to everyone who need a simple to use monitoring tool together with Nagios or Centreon  (and others).

Above some examples of basic checks included in the tool but you can create your own checks.

regards

Paul HEMELEERS

I

 

We use ICOM400.  It's quite a basic tool but has a small footprint and can send email alerts.  We've had it for years and its cheap.

Lately I'm writing my own monitoring/alerting using SQL PL and leveraging SQL functions.  Things like "Check if IFS folder file count reaches threshold" are super easy to do with SQL.

I guess tying it all together into a pretty dashboard is really what you're paying for.

Hello IBM Champions,

I just wanted to understand which is the better Monitoring and Alerting tool for iSeries in the current market. 

My current monitoring tool is Nagios, but we feel the current monitoring tool is not intended at times, so planning for a new one for our existing systems. I'm also thinking about Halcyon Monitoring software and "ManageEngine site24x7", Nagios and site24x7 are both plugin based, so I'm still not sure if site24x7 gives accurate results.

Please suggest.

My Requirements:

1.) Monitor all the necessary probes in iSeries, for ex: CPU, Check if backup job failed, Check if IFS folder file count reaches threshold, etc.

2.) Performance Dashboards, like CPU, DASD, RAM etc.

3.) Should be visible to see a system performance in a central view

------------------------------
Avinash Chandra Mandavilli
------------------------------

Hello Ace,

I'm sure the Nagios is well configured, but we feel the alerts are lagging a bit and sometimes we could understand the probes at Nagios side going to hung state, we don't have a strong expert person at the Nagios side at the moment. so, I was under the impression to go with a Halcyon Monitoring or Robot Monitoring tool.

BTW, is it possible to achieve the following with CL or SQL or RPG ?

I would like to set up a daily summary email about our IBM I/AS400 system health every night after 3^rd shift engineer duty is completed. 

For ex: The daily summary email report should look like as below. Please help me out with any sample PGM google links or sample scripts. 

• CPU: within threshold  
• ASP: within threshold
• QBATCH SBS: Jobs are below the threshold value; Condition: if QBATCH is equal to 10 above, it should print "Jobs are below the threshold value "
• Daily Tape Check ( Test_Tape ) : Job completed successfully; Condition: check if Test_Tape job failed or successful.
• INV_xxx job: Job is active in Subsystem; Condition: Check if Job is active in the subsystem.
• WRKPRB: No problem records.
• QSYSOPR: No MSGW's; Conditions:  if any msgw exists = MSGW needing for a reply, if no msgw exists = No MSGW's

Thank you so much Paul for sharing the sample screenshots. 

For example:  can we also setup to receive an alert "when QBATCH jobs are greater than or equal to 10 "?

Hi ,

I have included some printscreens from control4i.

It's 5250 based , so easy to use and stable ��

I can recommend this product to everyone who need a simple to use monitoring tool together with Nagios or Centreon  (and others).

Above some examples of basic checks included in the tool but you can create your own checks.

regards

Paul HEMELEERS

I

 

We use ICOM400.  It's quite a basic tool but has a small footprint and can send email alerts.  We've had it for years and its cheap.

Lately I'm writing my own monitoring/alerting using SQL PL and leveraging SQL functions.  Things like "Check if IFS folder file count reaches threshold" are super easy to do with SQL.

I guess tying it all together into a pretty dashboard is really what you're paying for.

Hello IBM Champions,

I just wanted to understand which is the better Monitoring and Alerting tool for iSeries in the current market. 

My current monitoring tool is Nagios, but we feel the current monitoring tool is not intended at times, so planning for a new one for our existing systems. I'm also thinking about Halcyon Monitoring software and "ManageEngine site24x7", Nagios and site24x7 are both plugin based, so I'm still not sure if site24x7 gives accurate results.

Please suggest.

My Requirements:

1.) Monitor all the necessary probes in iSeries, for ex: CPU, Check if backup job failed, Check if IFS folder file count reaches threshold, etc.

2.) Performance Dashboards, like CPU, DASD, RAM etc.

3.) Should be visible to see a system performance in a central view

------------------------------
Avinash Chandra Mandavilli
------------------------------

We use ICOM400.  It's quite a basic tool but has a small footprint and can send email alerts.  We've had it for years and its cheap.

Lately I'm writing my own monitoring/alerting using SQL PL and leveraging SQL functions.  Things like "Check if IFS folder file count reaches threshold" are super easy to do with SQL.

I guess tying it all together into a pretty dashboard is really what you're paying for.

Hello IBM Champions,

I just wanted to understand which is the better Monitoring and Alerting tool for iSeries in the current market. 

My current monitoring tool is Nagios, but we feel the current monitoring tool is not intended at times, so planning for a new one for our existing systems. I'm also thinking about Halcyon Monitoring software and "ManageEngine site24x7", Nagios and site24x7 are both plugin based, so I'm still not sure if site24x7 gives accurate results.

Please suggest.

My Requirements:

1.) Monitor all the necessary probes in iSeries, for ex: CPU, Check if backup job failed, Check if IFS folder file count reaches threshold, etc.

2.) Performance Dashboards, like CPU, DASD, RAM etc.

3.) Should be visible to see a system performance in a central view

------------------------------
Avinash Chandra Mandavilli
------------------------------

Hello IBM Champions,

I just wanted to understand which is the better Monitoring and Alerting tool for iSeries in the current market. 

My current monitoring tool is Nagios, but we feel the current monitoring tool is not intended at times, so planning for a new one for our existing systems. I'm also thinking about Halcyon Monitoring software and "ManageEngine site24x7", Nagios and site24x7 are both plugin based, so I'm still not sure if site24x7 gives accurate results.

Please suggest.

My Requirements:

1.) Monitor all the necessary probes in iSeries, for ex: CPU, Check if backup job failed, Check if IFS folder file count reaches threshold, etc.

2.) Performance Dashboards, like CPU, DASD, RAM etc.

3.) Should be visible to see a system performance in a central view

------------------------------
Avinash Chandra Mandavilli
------------------------------

Hi Avinash, 

Perhaps you're interested in a novel and innovative approach based on Prometheus and Grafana. An exporter designed for IBM i (available on GitHub) enables Prometheus to retrieve any data that can be queried via SQL. This setup permits you to establish alerts within Prometheus or Grafana, while the dashboards you create with Grafana can prove highly beneficial.

The subsequent phases involve integrating the entire solution with Event-Driven Ansible and the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform to achieve a fully automated solution.

Hello IBM Champions,

I just wanted to understand which is the better Monitoring and Alerting tool for iSeries in the current market. 

My current monitoring tool is Nagios, but we feel the current monitoring tool is not intended at times, so planning for a new one for our existing systems. I'm also thinking about Halcyon Monitoring software and "ManageEngine site24x7", Nagios and site24x7 are both plugin based, so I'm still not sure if site24x7 gives accurate results.

Please suggest.

My Requirements:

1.) Monitor all the necessary probes in iSeries, for ex: CPU, Check if backup job failed, Check if IFS folder file count reaches threshold, etc.

2.) Performance Dashboards, like CPU, DASD, RAM etc.

3.) Should be visible to see a system performance in a central view

------------------------------
Avinash Chandra Mandavilli
------------------------------

Thanks Nicolae. I will check and read about Prometheus or Grafana

Hi Avinash, 

Perhaps you're interested in a novel and innovative approach based on Prometheus and Grafana. An exporter designed for IBM i (available on GitHub) enables Prometheus to retrieve any data that can be queried via SQL. This setup permits you to establish alerts within Prometheus or Grafana, while the dashboards you create with Grafana can prove highly beneficial.

The subsequent phases involve integrating the entire solution with Event-Driven Ansible and the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform to achieve a fully automated solution.

Hello IBM Champions,

I just wanted to understand which is the better Monitoring and Alerting tool for iSeries in the current market. 

My current monitoring tool is Nagios, but we feel the current monitoring tool is not intended at times, so planning for a new one for our existing systems. I'm also thinking about Halcyon Monitoring software and "ManageEngine site24x7", Nagios and site24x7 are both plugin based, so I'm still not sure if site24x7 gives accurate results.

Please suggest.

My Requirements:

1.) Monitor all the necessary probes in iSeries, for ex: CPU, Check if backup job failed, Check if IFS folder file count reaches threshold, etc.

2.) Performance Dashboards, like CPU, DASD, RAM etc.

3.) Should be visible to see a system performance in a central view

------------------------------
Avinash Chandra Mandavilli
------------------------------

Hello IBM Champions,

I just wanted to understand which is the better Monitoring and Alerting tool for iSeries in the current market. 

My current monitoring tool is Nagios, but we feel the current monitoring tool is not intended at times, so planning for a new one for our existing systems. I'm also thinking about Halcyon Monitoring software and "ManageEngine site24x7", Nagios and site24x7 are both plugin based, so I'm still not sure if site24x7 gives accurate results.

Please suggest.

My Requirements:

1.) Monitor all the necessary probes in iSeries, for ex: CPU, Check if backup job failed, Check if IFS folder file count reaches threshold, etc.

2.) Performance Dashboards, like CPU, DASD, RAM etc.

3.) Should be visible to see a system performance in a central view

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Avinash Chandra Mandavilli
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Hello IBM Champions,

I just wanted to understand which is the better Monitoring and Alerting tool for iSeries in the current market. 

My current monitoring tool is Nagios, but we feel the current monitoring tool is not intended at times, so planning for a new one for our existing systems. I'm also thinking about Halcyon Monitoring software and "ManageEngine site24x7", Nagios and site24x7 are both plugin based, so I'm still not sure if site24x7 gives accurate results.

Please suggest.

My Requirements:

1.) Monitor all the necessary probes in iSeries, for ex: CPU, Check if backup job failed, Check if IFS folder file count reaches threshold, etc.

2.) Performance Dashboards, like CPU, DASD, RAM etc.

3.) Should be visible to see a system performance in a central view

------------------------------
Avinash Chandra Mandavilli
------------------------------

Hello IBM Champions,

I just wanted to understand which is the better Monitoring and Alerting tool for iSeries in the current market. 

My current monitoring tool is Nagios, but we feel the current monitoring tool is not intended at times, so planning for a new one for our existing systems. I'm also thinking about Halcyon Monitoring software and "ManageEngine site24x7", Nagios and site24x7 are both plugin based, so I'm still not sure if site24x7 gives accurate results.

Please suggest.

My Requirements:

1.) Monitor all the necessary probes in iSeries, for ex: CPU, Check if backup job failed, Check if IFS folder file count reaches threshold, etc.

2.) Performance Dashboards, like CPU, DASD, RAM etc.

3.) Should be visible to see a system performance in a central view

------------------------------
Avinash Chandra Mandavilli
------------------------------

Hello IBM Champions,

I just wanted to understand which is the better Monitoring and Alerting tool for iSeries in the current market. 

My current monitoring tool is Nagios, but we feel the current monitoring tool is not intended at times, so planning for a new one for our existing systems. I'm also thinking about Halcyon Monitoring software and "ManageEngine site24x7", Nagios and site24x7 are both plugin based, so I'm still not sure if site24x7 gives accurate results.

Please suggest.

My Requirements:

1.) Monitor all the necessary probes in iSeries, for ex: CPU, Check if backup job failed, Check if IFS folder file count reaches threshold, etc.

2.) Performance Dashboards, like CPU, DASD, RAM etc.

3.) Should be visible to see a system performance in a central view

------------------------------
Avinash Chandra Mandavilli
------------------------------

Hello IBM Champions,

I just wanted to understand which is the better Monitoring and Alerting tool for iSeries in the current market. 

My current monitoring tool is Nagios, but we feel the current monitoring tool is not intended at times, so planning for a new one for our existing systems. I'm also thinking about Halcyon Monitoring software and "ManageEngine site24x7", Nagios and site24x7 are both plugin based, so I'm still not sure if site24x7 gives accurate results.

Please suggest.

My Requirements:

1.) Monitor all the necessary probes in iSeries, for ex: CPU, Check if backup job failed, Check if IFS folder file count reaches threshold, etc.

2.) Performance Dashboards, like CPU, DASD, RAM etc.

3.) Should be visible to see a system performance in a central view

------------------------------
Avinash Chandra Mandavilli
------------------------------

Dear Avinash,  Control4i is a very good product and solution but you need Nagios or somethings like that.
In case you want a all in on IBMi system we are testing using the new Kisco Version 8.03 , monitor called iEventMonitor in our control room with IBMi support 24x7.Very useful and keep tabs on all the required KPIs, sent emails, you can reply to MSGW using the exit program provided with the software and have a nice HTTP portal to keep tabs on one or more LPARs within a single point of use.
You can also integrate with other Kisco solution for security or SIEM integration.If you need more information: https://www.kisco.com/iem/index.htmlGood day.

Hello IBM Champions,

I just wanted to understand which is the better Monitoring and Alerting tool for iSeries in the current market. 

My current monitoring tool is Nagios, but we feel the current monitoring tool is not intended at times, so planning for a new one for our existing systems. I'm also thinking about Halcyon Monitoring software and "ManageEngine site24x7", Nagios and site24x7 are both plugin based, so I'm still not sure if site24x7 gives accurate results.

Please suggest.

My Requirements:

1.) Monitor all the necessary probes in iSeries, for ex: CPU, Check if backup job failed, Check if IFS folder file count reaches threshold, etc.

2.) Performance Dashboards, like CPU, DASD, RAM etc.

3.) Should be visible to see a system performance in a central view

------------------------------
Avinash Chandra Mandavilli
------------------------------

Hello IBM Champions,

I just wanted to understand which is the better Monitoring and Alerting tool for iSeries in the current market. 

My current monitoring tool is Nagios, but we feel the current monitoring tool is not intended at times, so planning for a new one for our existing systems. I'm also thinking about Halcyon Monitoring software and "ManageEngine site24x7", Nagios and site24x7 are both plugin based, so I'm still not sure if site24x7 gives accurate results.

Please suggest.

My Requirements:

1.) Monitor all the necessary probes in iSeries, for ex: CPU, Check if backup job failed, Check if IFS folder file count reaches threshold, etc.

2.) Performance Dashboards, like CPU, DASD, RAM etc.

3.) Should be visible to see a system performance in a central view

------------------------------
Avinash Chandra Mandavilli
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