Re: IBM i Monitoring utility
Michael Mayer via MIDRANGE-L <[email protected]> Fri, 26 Jun 2026 14:51:21 +0000
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People, this may be and probably is off base but here's something interesting to look at for future ref. https://i-rays.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/i-rays/posts/?feedView=all Dawn May is involved with this. Respectfully, Michael Mayer IBM i on Power System Admin INFOR LN Jr ERP Admin ibmireference.blogspot.com<http://ibmireference.blogspot.com/> IBM 2024/2025 Advocate, Contributor, Influencer and IBM i Ready Badges. www.credly.com/users/michael-mayer.586da683/badges#credly<http://www.credly.com/users/michael-mayer.586da683/badges#credly> [cid:408c9d6d-9122-4d27-a02f-c8fe7a2fc4e3] ________________________________ 2. Re: IBM i Monitoring utility (Bryan Dietz) 3. Re: IBM i Monitoring utility (Laurence Chiu) 4. Re: IBM i Monitoring utility (Rob Berendt) 5. Re: IBM i Monitoring utility (Justin Taylor) 6. Re: IBM i Monitoring utility (Rob Berendt) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- message: 2 date: Thu, 25 Jun 2026 15:36:33 -0500 from: Bryan Dietz <[email protected]> subject: Re: IBM i Monitoring utility there are some example out on the IBM techdocs, and there are more in a source file in QMGTOOLS. passing along, Bryan ------------------------------ message: 3 date: Fri, 26 Jun 2026 10:04:02 +1200 from: Laurence Chiu <[email protected]> subject: Re: IBM i Monitoring utility 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 <[email protected]> wrote: > there are some example out on the IBM techdocs, and there are more in a > source file in QMGTOOLS. > > passing along, > Bryan > > > -- > This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list > To post a message email: [email protected] > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, > visit: https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flists.midrange.com%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Fmidrange-l&data=05%7C02%7Cmichael.mayer%40ermco-eci.com%7Ca6c9ce2da01440cc47c908ded383af36%7Cd2deeaf270e4425c91d7d99d784e89d6%7C0%7C0%7C639180759708807248%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=rlOZlf%2FiN8vaVlvmkWiUWDdmZnOmALQelxn16Skbl5I%3D&reserved=0<https://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/midrange-l> > or email: MIDRANGE-L-request-+hD5IHI5Xscn3HwCXmMcX9BPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org > Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives > at https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.midrange.com%2Fmidrange-l&data=05%7C02%7Cmichael.mayer%40ermco-eci.com%7Ca6c9ce2da01440cc47c908ded383af36%7Cd2deeaf270e4425c91d7d99d784e89d6%7C0%7C0%7C639180759708829169%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=3wfR8km9bqdfIazQmRhZddLSOXT8iDWyGY4UdbndrPQ%3D&reserved=0<https://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l>. > > Please contact support-FMtJrHiV//lnDLsaKlm4mFaTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org for any subscription related > questions. > > ------------------------------ message: 4 date: Fri, 26 Jun 2026 08:13:14 -0400 from: Rob Berendt <[email protected]> subject: 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 <[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? > > On Fri, Jun 26, 2026 at 8:36?AM Bryan Dietz <[email protected]> wrote: > > > there are some example out on the IBM techdocs, and there are more in a > > source file in QMGTOOLS. > > > > passing along, > > Bryan > > > > > > -- > > This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing > list > > To post a message email: [email protected] > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, > > visit: https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flists.midrange.com%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Fmidrange-l&data=05%7C02%7Cmichael.mayer%40ermco-eci.com%7Ca6c9ce2da01440cc47c908ded383af36%7Cd2deeaf270e4425c91d7d99d784e89d6%7C0%7C0%7C639180759708889863%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=tw9XmHlBWTSMpLwCDHeNi1Y1l%2BTsI1mGztyCg1Dmbto%3D&reserved=0<https://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/midrange-l> > > or email: MIDRANGE-L-request-+hD5IHI5Xscn3HwCXmMcX9BPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org > > Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives > > at https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.midrange.com%2Fmidrange-l&data=05%7C02%7Cmichael.mayer%40ermco-eci.com%7Ca6c9ce2da01440cc47c908ded383af36%7Cd2deeaf270e4425c91d7d99d784e89d6%7C0%7C0%7C639180759708912878%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=a7IQxc68DBwvWhFH9bRY2L4zb5%2Fpg38xtdMg1uUxTQk%3D&reserved=0<https://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l>. > > > > Please contact support-FMtJrHiV//lnDLsaKlm4mFaTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org for any subscription related > > questions. > > > > > -- > This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list > To post a message email: [email protected] > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, > visit: https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flists.midrange.com%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Fmidrange-l&data=05%7C02%7Cmichael.mayer%40ermco-eci.com%7Ca6c9ce2da01440cc47c908ded383af36%7Cd2deeaf270e4425c91d7d99d784e89d6%7C0%7C0%7C639180759708928172%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=35ZAEe16GCyjlH1NCxlWTlkMYUyKYTwZHdY%2F2JObxKc%3D&reserved=0<https://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/midrange-l> > or email: MIDRANGE-L-request-+hD5IHI5Xscn3HwCXmMcX9BPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org > Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives > at https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.midrange.com%2Fmidrange-l&data=05%7C02%7Cmichael.mayer%40ermco-eci.com%7Ca6c9ce2da01440cc47c908ded383af36%7Cd2deeaf270e4425c91d7d99d784e89d6%7C0%7C0%7C639180759708942878%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=Qu0d4MIrqaCmh2Odfp74BSlpdyPQYlDcyo%2B0EBbFfdk%3D&reserved=0<https://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l>. > > Please contact support-FMtJrHiV//lnDLsaKlm4mFaTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org for any subscription related > questions. > > ------------------------------ message: 5 date: Fri, 26 Jun 2026 07:23:33 -0500 from: Justin Taylor <[email protected]> subject: 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? > > ------------------------------ message: 6 date: Fri, 26 Jun 2026 09:05:24 -0400 from: Rob Berendt <[email protected]> subject: Re: IBM i Monitoring utility I did a google search for ssh script to check your hmc for the status of an lpar and got some good hits > >> ------------------------------ Subject: Digest Footer -- This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) digest list To post a message email: [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flists.midrange.com%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Fmidrange-l&data=05%7C02%7Cmichael.mayer%40ermco-eci.com%7Ca6c9ce2da01440cc47c908ded383af36%7Cd2deeaf270e4425c91d7d99d784e89d6%7C0%7C0%7C639180759708957717%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=4MxvHMAWEkkYMQHWbAve3jeLuS90n1W8TlauSdxCIRY%3D&reserved=0<https://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/midrange-l> or email: MIDRANGE-L-request-+hD5IHI5Xscn3HwCXmMcX9BPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.midrange.com%2Fmidrange-l&data=05%7C02%7Cmichael.mayer%40ermco-eci.com%7Ca6c9ce2da01440cc47c908ded383af36%7Cd2deeaf270e4425c91d7d99d784e89d6%7C0%7C0%7C639180759708974222%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=Sw%2BZDblxk8sqNh1iZJxvr1IyCOSafHkmlVkmbaYKb08%3D&reserved=0<https://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l>. 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