Re: IBM i Monitoring utility

I don't think it was stated but I think I can say the tool is Dynatrace.

On Sun, Jun 28, 2026, 12:11 PM Don Brown via MIDRANGE-L <
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>    Hi,
>
>    I can't see in the history what ODBC tools you are using to do the
>    monitoring or how the monitor is checking the connection.
>
>    But if that is proving unreliable or providing false positives sometimes
>    perhaps you need to go the other way and have the LPAR provide a
> heartbeat
>    on whatever frequency you are wanting to check. The heartbeat could be a
>    timestamp written to a file either on the lpar or on an external device
> or
>    a data queue or a web service call or whatever you like.
>
>    But if the problem is the monitoring machine has a network problem and
>    that is the only monitoring tool then that is a problem!
>
>    Cheers
>    Don
>
>
>
>    Don Brown
>
>    Senior Consultant
>
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>    From: MIDRANGE-L <[email protected]> On Behalf Of
>    Laurence Chiu
>    Sent: Saturday, 27 June 2026 8:46 PM
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>    Subject: Re: IBM i Monitoring utility
>
>    I am trying to distinguish between the host is down or lost the
> connection
>    to the host. In the latter situation, our monitoring tool will post an
>    alert the host is down, That eventually ends up as a SMS message to the
>    help desk who call the techs. If they then logon and see the host is not
>    down, they are not happy :-(
>
>    I did some research on this and it seems we could use the HMC. It has a
>    REST API which we can ingest from our monitoring tool and feed the data
>    into the same date pipeline we now get from ingesting QSYSPOPR. It
> doesn't
>    look too hard but this was not an options our team that manages our
>    corporate wide monitoring infrastructure since they don't know anything
>    about IBMi!
>
>    On Fri, Jun 26, 2026 at 10:04 AM 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
>    >>
>    >>
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