Re: IBM i Monitoring utility

At my last job, I wrote a wrapper that used the Verify Connection feature
from acsbundle.jar.  It read the results and sent out text messages if any
service was down.




On Thu, Jun 25, 2026 at 5:04 PM Laurence Chiu <[email protected]> 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?
>
>
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