IBM i Monitoring by the Dashboard Light
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What if you could see IBM i system performance and application statuses across all partitions in a single screen? What if you only had to look in one place to see what’s happening now, what happened in the past few hours, or what happened last week or last month? Graphical monitoring provides greater visibility, making it easier to manage your IBM i systems and applications. Ah, paradise at last! Let our experts demonstrate how easy it is to build Robot Monitor dashboards that allow you to manage your IBM i environment with unprecedented detail and clarity. You’ll learn how to: -Configure single- or multi-system views -Add real-time performance widgets -Include custom-written SQL widget data -Show multiple metrics in a single widget -Provide monitored data for any date or time range -Highlight monthly summarized metrics Get a good look at the wealth of information provided at a single glance using Robot Monitor dashboards—check it out today!
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IBM i Monitoring by the Dashboard Light
- 1. All trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.© HelpSystems LLC. All rights reserved. How a graphical dashboard in Robot Monitor provides greater visibility than all your green screens combined IBM i Monitoring by the Dashboard Light
- 2. HelpSystems LLC. All rights reserved. Today’s Presenters Chuck Losinski Director of Automation Technology HelpSystems Broadcasting live from Eden Prairie in Minnesota USA Sara Williams System Engineer HelpSystems
- 3. HelpSystems LLC. All rights reserved. Suite of Monitoring Webinars Stop Feeding IBM i Performance Hogs SQL-Based Monitoring Real-Time Disk Monitoring for IBM i IBM i Monitoring by the Dashboard Light
- 4. HelpSystems LLC. All rights reserved. Does the green screen still reign? Where Are You with Monitoring?
- 5. HelpSystems LLC. All rights reserved. Do you have multiple partitions? Where Are You with Monitoring?
- 6. HelpSystems LLC. All rights reserved. Customizable dashboards! Robot Monitor
- 7. HelpSystems LLC. All rights reserved. Agenda • Dashboard Creation • Widgets – Real-time – Short-term – History summary – Disk analysis • System Groups The Plan for Today
- 8. HelpSystems Corporate Overview. All rights reserved. How is the Data Collected? More than real-time Where • Natively on IBM i Stages • What’s happening now • What has happened in the “recent” past • Summarized by month, day, hour Systems • Data collection on one or more partitions • Multiple systems on one graph
- 9. HelpSystems Corporate Overview. All rights reserved. Robot Monitor What do we check?
- 10. HelpSystems LLC. All rights reserved. You know where you have headaches Focusing
- 11. HelpSystems LLC. All rights reserved. Easy setup across your all partitions Setting Up Monitors
- 12. HelpSystems LLC. All rights reserved. Dashboards Create and customize as necessary
- 13. HelpSystems LLC. All rights reserved. Dashboards System group dashboards
- 14. HelpSystems LLC. All rights reserved. What’s happening now, recently, or in the past Types of Data
- 15. HelpSystems LLC. All rights reserved. The critical few Choose the Metric to Include
- 16. HelpSystems LLC. All rights reserved. Print the Dashboard or Reports
- 17. HelpSystems Corporate Overview. All rights reserved. • Create a dashboard • Add widgets • Configure for multiple systems • Printing Live Demo
- 18. HelpSystems LLC. All rights reserved. Questions? Comments? • Dashboard Creation • Widgets – Real-time – Short-term – History summary – Disk analysis • System Groups Recap
- 19. HelpSystems LLC. All rights reserved. Thank You For Attending! Website: www.helpsystems.com Telephone: 800-328-1000 sales +1 952-933-0609 support Presenters: chuck.losinski@helpsystems.com sara.williams@helpsystems.com
Editor's Notes
- Intro: Chuck Load polling question Setup: Academy/Wisdom Rmonitor GUI, Green screen to both systems.
- Chuck has introduction; Include that his is the first in a series of Robot Monitor performance monitoring webinars!
- Chuck has introduction; Include that his is the first in a series of Robot Monitor performance monitoring webinars!
- Are you the expert at navigating all the green screens necessary to review all the relevant data to monitor system and application performance, and PTFs on your system? What if you have multiple partitions to manage?
- Are you the expert at navigating all the green screens necessary to review all the relevant data to monitor system and application performance, and PTFs on your system? What if you have multiple partitions to manage?
- Robot to the rescue! Why dashboards? Where do they fit in in relation to the other views? à "Mix and match" to requirement
- 1. This one is the easiest to understand. Objects in libraries, so your normal physical and logical files & tables, journal receivers, program objects and so on, residing in normal libraries. Of course they use … disk space. 2. Streamfiles in the integrated file system or IFS. This is where image files, java apps, web data, and so on is stored. This area can be a real black hole for most administrators. 3. Objects in QTEMP libraries. Each job has its own QTEMP library. The objects in QTEMP libraries are normal objects except when the job ends, they are all deleted. Objects in QTEMPs use up space like any other object, but it is a lot trickier to find out how much disk space they use. 4. Temporary storage. This isn’t the same as objects in QTEMP. It is not even “objects” in the usual sense. Temporary storage is just storage that has been allocated by a job. For instance if a C++ program does an “allocate”, then that causes temporary storage to be allocated for the job. Or if a Java program uses its heap space, it is using temporary storage. (also IBM has released a lot of PTFs for temporary storage problems in IBM i itself.) 5. And spooled files. Spooled files in output queues and are very useful to end users and a big pain to system operators . Do users ever delete the spooled files they no longer use? Very rarely! In many cases, users are not even aware that old spooled files still exist.
- CHUCK
- CHUCK We collect many metrics that you can use for live monitoring, exception notification and reporting. But no doubt there are critical metrics that you’d like to focus on to ensure your system is available to the end user.
- …for example just for CPU we can break it out by job, subsystem, job in subsystem, user, and so on.
- Setting up monitors and notification across multiple partitions is a real breeze.
- Insert your logo Multiple dashboards can be created and customized to your needs.
- Group systems or create a dashboard with the critical metrics for all systems, at a glance.
- Types of widgets
- Metrics to choose from…explain. If short term or summary you choose time/date range.
- Also Rmonitor does a once per day disk summary of library and IFS storage so you’ll see where you are now, yesterday, last week, last month or as long as you want to keep the statistics. The stats are a summary for each library and directory.
- Build a dashboard from scratch Show drill down from dashboard by double clicking
- Seed questions and polling question.
- Chuck That concludes our show.