Features

MQ Queue Manager Monitoring:

• Prevent the negative effects of a disabled MQ Queue Manager with vital Status Monitors.

• Stay up to date with Command Server Status, Initiator Status and Connection Count Monitors.

MQ Listener Monitoring:

• Monitor critical MQ Listeners to ensure active MQ Communications.

• Benefit from round the clock MQ Listener Status Monitoring.

MQ Channel Monitoring:

• Identify problems fast with MQ Channel Performance and Status Monitors.

• Monitor Bytes Received per second, Bytes Sent per second, Compression Ratio, Compression Time, Exit Program Time and Network Time.

• Avoid communication delays and conflicts with the Average Time on Queue Monitor.

MQ Queue Monitoring:

• Gain insight into unresolved issues with Application Status, Age of Oldest Message, Average Queue Time and Queue Depth Monitors.

• Visualize data with percentage views of Queue Depth Maximum and Trigger Depth.

• Be informed of application message activity with Open Count-Input and-Output Monitors.

• Identify and resolve unsent messages with Uncommitted Message Count and Dead Letter Queue Monitors.

• Monitor the QAUDJRN security journal in real time, 24/7

• Be alerted to security breaches, defined by your internal protocol

• Ensure compliance for both internal and external regulation

• Tailor business application monitoring with our customizable checks such as job status, job queue, data queue and comms monitoring

• Long-term retrospective analysis

• Long-term predictive forecasting

• Service level agreements

• Measure and track response times, system overheads, CPU, output queue status, transactions per hour and many other metrics

• User-definable screen layout

• Threshold history log

• Automatically Action jobs using excessive CPU

• Comprehensive cross system PTF reporting

• Monitor the journal receivers in real time and be alerted if your HA solution is falling behind in record count, and by how many

• Monitor the lag and lead of your HA solution in real time

• A central view of the PTF's installed on your IBM i systems & partitions

• Cross system PTF reporting summarizes and compares all PTFs installed, highlighting any discrepancies between systems

• Escalate critical IBM i information via SNMP traps to cross-platform solutions

• Interface into BMC Performance Manager, HP Openview, CA Unicenter TNG, Tivoli Netcool, Nagios & IBM System Director

• Fully graphical console available in addition to green screen

• Create a Custom Centralized console for all system messages

• Filter repetitive messages

• Escalate priority of important messages and notify operators of problems

• Increase visibility of important messages with speech software, color coding, and remote notification

• Automated responses via user defined rules

• User defined authorization lists control the viewing and answering capabilities of individual users or groups of users

• Change informational messages into inquiry messages, forcing the requirement for the messages to be answered prior to being removed from the console

• Full audit trail of all messages and replies

• Add notes to messages to ensure that the message is handled correctly

• Monitor for looping jobs

• Monitor you IBM i systems in real time, whilst in restricted state

• Monitor FTP commands coming in and going out of the IBM i

• Log the exact commands that are being run both to, and from the system

• View the documented commands in the audit log for problem determination

• Monitor the Audit Journal for real-time security breach messages

• Two way FTP command monitoring

• Standard QMM filtering and escalation procedures for Audit Journal monitoring

• Meet strict internal auditing standards and external legal obligations such as Sarbanes-Oxley, using the full history archiving functionality

• Guard against disks filling up by monitoring for looping jobs and optionally placing them on hold

• Streamline operations with calendar processing to determine which people need to be alerted based on their availability & schedule

• Access data for extensive problem evaluation

• Run commands and programs from your mobile phone

• Receive and reply to messages from your mobile phone

• Secure Messages via Authorization Lists

• Keep mobile and pro-active to serious threats with page, phone and email alerts

• Monitor the life of your cache batteries in real time

• Alert staff before batteries need replacing and prior to them failing

• Proactively plan any downtime required to replace your cache batteries

• Route messages through to a SYSLOG on a remote UNIX platform

• Monitor the total number of a nominated message, present in the BRMS log

• Monitor the total number of tapes in a specified status, by location/container/media class/system

• Full comprehensive disk monitoring, including IFSv

• Instantly pinpoint the cause and location of sudden increases in disk usage

• Monitor various temporary storage usage by job, user, subsystem or entire system

• Identify largest library and largest object in real time

• Independent ASP monitoring

• Graphical display of historical data over any time period (month, week, day)

• Drill-down capability

• Easy identification of CPU-hogging jobs

• Full job monitoring: Monitor that jobs are running correctly, monitor various components of jobs, including number of threads

• User-definable CPU usage restriction

• Job Status Check, including lock wait

• Immediately identify jobs that breach their anticipated or scheduled run times

• Prevent downtime & ensure all systems remain available 24-7

• Highlight system availability

• Monitor job, communications and network interface statuses, providing full availability

• Monitor journal lag from partition to partition or system to system, ensuring availability integrity

• Graphical display of Disk space usage

• Analysis by library, attribute, last-used date or other

• Review data across periods for capacity planning or trend analysis

• IFS and native file system monitoring

• Reporting

• Verify network components are performing correctly and are available

• Sophisticated network and communications error monitoring

• Comms Utilization/Throughput

• Controller/Device/Line/Network Status

• IOP Utilization

• Simple management reporting in all areas - ideal for audit purposes and capacity planning

• Easy-to-schedule automated reporting saves time and resources

• Track resource usage by user and user groups

• Easy access to historical resource usage

• Detailed information on spooled files and print volume

• Monitor for events that are expected to start or finish by a particular time, e.g. end-of-day jobs

• Receive real-time alerts of expected events that have failed to start or finish by a particular time

• Escalate events in accordance with its importance

• Full history log of specified events that have or have not occurred

• 24/7 monitoring of all system messages, queues & critical OS/400 performance metrics

• Full automation of operational daily checks for the IBM i

• Escalation and alerting of critical problems that could impact the business

• Mobile management via escalation of messages to a cell phone allows the user to receive, acknowledge and reply to business critical messages

• Automatically transfer control of monitoring to a nominated back up during system failure ensuring monitoring remains unaffected

• Automatically switch control back to the central system when that system recovers

• Continued monitoring of all systems and partitions ensures messages are never missed

• The ability to archive the data off the system to free disk space and then to retrieve historical data at a later date to satisfy Auditor requests as required.

• Escalate unanswered messages to authorized users or chain of users, or group

• Alerts sent via email, pager, or mobile phone

• Automate steps within Escalation Procedures, including number of times before moving on to next step

• Run commands or programs from within an escalation procedure

• Ensure availability of support staff via full calendar processing capabilities within QMessage Monitor i.e. shift patterns and holiday time

• Escalate messages to an enterprise management console via SNMP

• Receive, acknowledge and reply to messages from your cell phone sent from the IBM i