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 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.
To find out more about monitors, see the following topics: