Re: IBM i Monitoring utility

I guess your definition of "down" is what is important. If the users
cannot connect do they really care if it's because the line is down,
hardware issue, janitor pulled the plug to use his vacuum?
Granted, simple ping tests can be intermittent.
I do not know of any tools offhand that offer this but I don't do a whole
lot of shopping for such tools. If you already use one you might contact
them and see if their tool offers this.
I can use a putty client to get to my hmc and execute commands. I wonder
if one could generate ssh scripts to retrieve the same data?

On Thu, Jun 25, 2026 at 6:04 PM Laurence Chiu <lchiu7@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On a similar note does anybody have any thoughts on tools that can monitor
the health of an IBMi LPAR when the health monitoring is performed from an
external agent using ODBC? If the ODBC connection fails, or the network
connection fails, the tool cannot detect the difference and will report
host is down. This is not entirely satisfactory since it can generate
false alerts. One piece of advice I saw was to leverage the HMC and use
API calls to the HMC to detect the host status which is likely to be more
robust. Has anybody have an experience with this?

On Fri, Jun 26, 2026 at 8:36 AM Bryan Dietz <bdietz400@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

there are some example out on the IBM techdocs, and there are more in a
source file in QMGTOOLS.

passing along,
Bryan


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