iSeries Navigator monitors

Monitors display current information about the performance of your systems. Additionally, you can use them to carry out predefined actions when a specific event occurs.

You can use the system, message, job, file, and business-to-business (B2B) transaction monitors to display and monitor information about your systems. The system and job monitors use the performance data collected by Collection Services.

The monitors included in iSeries™ Navigator use Collection Services data to track the elements of system performance of specific interest to you. Moreover, they can take specified actions when certain events, such as the percentage of CPU utilization or the status of a job, occur. You can use monitors to see and manage system performance as it happens across multiple systems and groups of systems.

With the monitors, you can start a monitor, and then turn to other tasks on your server, in iSeries Navigator, or on your PC. In fact, you could even turn your PC off. iSeries Navigator continues monitoring and performing any threshold commands or actions you specified. Your monitor runs until you stop it. You can also use monitors to manage performance remotely by accessing them with iSeries Navigator for Wireless.

iSeries Navigator provides the following types of monitors:

System monitor

Collect and display performance data as it happens or up to 1 hour. Detailed graphs help you visualize what is going on with your servers as it happens. Choose from a variety of metrics (performance measurements) to pinpoint specific aspects of system performance. For example, if you are monitoring the average CPU utilization on your server, you can click any collection point on the graph to see a details chart that shows the 20 jobs with the highest CPU utilization. Then, you can right-click any of these jobs to work directly with the job.

Job monitor

Monitor a job or a list of jobs based on job name, job user, job type, subsystem, or server type. Choose from a variety of metrics to monitor the performance, status, or error messages for a job. To work directly with a job, just right-click the job from the list that is shown in the Job Monitor window.

Message monitor

Find out whether your application completes successfully or monitor for specific messages that are critical to your business needs. From the Message Monitor window, you can see the details of a message, reply to a message, send a message, and delete a message.

B2B activity monitor

If you have an application like Connect for iSeries configured, you can use a B2B activity monitor to monitor your B2B transactions. You can view a graph of active transactions over time, and you can run commands automatically when thresholds are triggered. You can search for and display a specific transaction as well as view a bar graph of the detailed steps of that specific transaction.

File monitor

Monitor one or more selected files for a specified text string, for a specified size, or for any modification to the file.

• Monitor concepts
  Monitors can display real-time performance data. Additionally, they can continually monitor your system in order to run a selected command when a specified threshold is reached. Find out how monitors work, what they can monitor, and how they can respond to a given performance situation.

• Configuring a monitor
  You can configure a monitor in iSeries Navigator. Use this information to learn how to set up a monitor and how to configure it to take the best advantage of the available options.

• Scenarios: iSeries Navigator monitors
  Use this information to see how you can use some of the different types of monitors to look at specific aspects of your system's performance.

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Collection Services iSeries Navigator for Wireless