Re: Dynamic Problem/Performance Reporting

[Jim Oberholtzer <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxx>]

IBM Director and Tivoli Composite Application Manager for Applications. 
(Unfortunately they don't run on an i but they  work very well)

Another option is Nagios however the application monitoring is lacking 
there.  (could be compiled to run on i, but better on Linux)

You of course already have Management Central which can do most of the 
things in your list of requirements (job queue depth I think might be an 
issue but it would not be hard to create an exit for it)

As an inexpensive solution I would start off with IBM Director, Active 
Energy Manger, (let it go into pure monitor mode after the trial runs 
out) and some Management Central monitors.

If you have the advanced PDUs from IBM you have sensors for room 
temp/humidity already.  If not you might see if the air conditioners 
have an ethernet jack for snmp connections.  There are a plethora of 
solutions on the open market for room monitoring.

Jim Oberholtzer
CEO/Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects, LLC


On 4/21/2010 8:44 AM, Michael Ryan wrote:
> *This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(r) Pro*
> Anyone have any experience with a product that would dynamically report on
> status of problems and performance? I'm thinking that the product has to be
> open ended to enable different 'feeds', such as i information (job queue
> depth, disk utilization, etc.) as well as things like number of calls on
> hold, status of external processes, computer room temp - things like that.
> Any comments welcome. Vendors can reply directly.
>
> Thanks...
>