Re: IBM i Monitoring utility

[Brad Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx>]

<vendor>

I have JOBWATCH which has evolved over the years to quite a piece of work,
and I'm always willing to add new things if people ask for them.  For
example, you mentioned disk %... I don't believe that's a monitor in it
now, but if it triggers a message to QSYSOPR that can be monitored.

https://www.bvstools.com/jobwatch

It will do most of what you're asking.  What happens is you set up a
condition (ie, CPU usage, watching for MSGW jobs, looking at message queues
for messages above a certain severity, etc and then it can trigger to run
any command, call a program, etc with parameters available for most
everything that you can pass it to create your alert.

Very inexpensive as well.    About $500 a year per partition.

You can find documentation and release notes for it at
https://docs.bvstools.com.  There are also a couple articles on new
features added at
https://fieldexit.com/forum/thread?groupid=bvstools&forumid=jobwatchannouncements
.

</vendor>

On Sun, Jun 21, 2026 at 10:40 AM gio.cot via MIDRANGE-L <
midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi all
>
> we are looking for utility programs to monitor and then notify problems /
> errors that can occur in the system in order to avoid machine downtime and
> /
> or stop application procedures;
>
> For example, I would like to monitor error batch job , CPU use over a
> certain percentage, use disk space over a percentage and/or progressive
> increase in disk occupancy, hardware errors, hardware reports such as cache
> battery to be replaced etc. etc.
>
> Can anyone give me any ideas on how to proceed?
>
> Thank you in advance
>
> Gio
>
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