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2. IBM i War Stories from the Front Line
• Exception Monitoring
• Where Did My Disk Space Go?
• Housekeeping
• IBM i SQL Services
• If All Else Fails…
• Q&A and Recap
Agenda
4. IBM i War Stories from the Front Line
The Cost of Monitoring
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Per Year
5. IBM i War Stories from the Front Line
• Manual Checks
• Excessive Tools and Consoles
• Excessive Notifications
• Old Notifications
Why 30 Minutes?
6. IBM i War Stories from the Front Line
• Manual Checks
– People or process is responsible for 80% of downtime
Time-consuming
Repetitive (and mundane)
Complex multi-platform environments
After-hours demands
Manual Checks
7. IBM i War Stories from the Front Line
Exception Monitoring
8. IBM i War Stories from the Front Line
Interval Monitoring
9. IBM i War Stories from the Front Line
Variable Start, Fixed Duration Monitoring
10. IBM i War Stories from the Front Line
Variable Start, Fixed Duration Monitoring
11. IBM i War Stories from the Front Line
Variable Start, Fixed Duration Monitoring
12. IBM i War Stories from the Front Line
Variable Start, Fixed Duration Monitoring
13. IBM i War Stories from the Front Line
Alert Intelligence
14. IBM i War Stories from the Front Line
• Audit journal (entries)
• Device status (line, controller, device)
• Distribution queues (status and depth)
• Job log (messages)
• Job queues (status, depth, length of time on queue)
• IBM MQ and Vison’s MIMIX monitoring
• Message queues (QSYSOPR, QSYSMSG, application, QHST)
• Object (SQL services, IFS, data queues, data areas)
• Performance (system, subsystem job, statuses)
• TCP/IP (pint – available / not available / changed)
• All template-based rules (Misys Equation, Midas, Oracle JDE, Infor
M3 and XA, iTERA, and Maxava)
Alert Intelligence
15. IBM i War Stories from the Front Line
• Excessive Tools / Consoles
– Single tool
– Single pane of glass
Excessive Tools / Consoles
16. IBM i War Stories from the Front Line
Single Tool
17. IBM i War Stories from the Front Line
Forward Halcyon Alerts to Another Application Console
18. IBM i War Stories from the Front Line
Single Pane of Glass
19. IBM i War Stories from the Front Line
• Old Notifications
– Auto-close
Old Notifications
20. IBM i War Stories from the Front Line
Old Notifications
40. IBM i War Stories from the Front Line
• Exception Monitoring
• Where Did My Disk Space Go?
• Housekeeping
• IBM i SQL Services
• If All Else Fails …
Q&A and Recap
41. IBM i War Stories from the Front Line
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Editor's Notes
1 system
POLL QUESTION 1
POLL QUESTION 1
Age, size, status, file, user, program, time, contents, archive, recovery, email, convert, export – all, generic, any interval
Size, created, last changed, last used, ASP threshold
Size, created, last changed, last used, ASP threshold and soon log file content
POLL QUESTION 1
IBM keeps adding to the list of published IBM i services, it seems to be very much a growth area, with more being added.
excessive java heap sizes and too much time spent in GC.
S21 ‘RF’ Run Failed
More recently we worked with a Halcyon customer who wanted to monitor a Media Library – where we can alert based on device, resource and resource allocation statuses.
Date, date, time, calendar
Sustained coming
POLL QUESTION 1
Solutions Portfolio
Our different brands provide a module based solution for attacking individual server operating systems or we can manage the whole network with a combination of products like Intermapper, Skybot, Robot, Powertech, CCSS, Safestone, etc. Our core strength is IBM i, but so we know what it takes to keep the enterprise running as many critical applications run on this platform for retail, banking, insurance and more industries.