Understand business critical attributes of IBMDb2 and System i monitors, measure performance counters of your AS400 server, eliminate performance bottlenecks from your IBM infrastructure, and obtain pro-tips for effective application performance.

1. IBM Db2 and System i monitoring
with
ManageEngine Applications Manager

2. Agenda
Business critical attributes of Db2
for iSeries
Eliminating performance
bottlenecks from iSeries
infrastructure
Measuring performance counters
of AS400 servers
Tips for effective capacity
planning

3. Challenges faced by IT admins
Server
crashes
Slow
applications
Unexpected
downtimes
Configuring
dependencies
Troubleshoot memory
leak
Optimizing
applications

4. Viable monitoring platform
timely reports for analysis
instantly alerts during an outage
monitors your apps & servers 24/7
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The solution is...
that
and
and delivers
Monitoring
SLA
Management
Alerting
Reporting

5. Applications Manager
Supports over 100 popular apps/ servers. Recommended by IT admins worldwide!

6. Prerequisites to Monitor AS400
Minimum User Privileges
• User should be permitted to access QMPGDATA/QPFRDATA
library
• It is recommended to use an account having a *QSECOFR
permission on the server.

7. Manual by GUI

8. Discovery & mapping
Measuring performance counters of AS400 server

9. ASP Usage in Percentage
Breakup of Auxiliary Storage
ASP
Utilization

10. Configure thresholds &
actions for metrics such as,
- Pool Size
- Reserved Size
- DB Pages & Faults
- Non DB Pages
- Non DB Faults
Pool Usage

11. AS400 JOBS
SUMMARY
Monitored Metrics:
- Status
- Priority
- Queues
- Threads
Enables User to Perform Actions like
End, Hold and Release Jobs

12. AS400 JOBS
Details

13. Total Disk utilization
of the server
AS400 Disk
utilization
Monitored Metrics:
- Blocks Read
- Blocks Write
- Drive Capacity(MB)
- Drive Available Space(MB)
- ASP Number
- Unit Status
- Disk Wait Time(ms)
- ARM Utilization (%)

14. Disk
Details

15. AS400
Queues

16. Discovery & mapping
Monitoring Business critical attributes of Db2 for iSeries

17. Discovery
IP Range Bulk Import

18. Manual by GUI

19. Monitored Metrics:
- Average CPU Utilization
- Average CPU Rate
- Current CPU Capacity
- Configured CPUs
CPU Stats of an iSeries DB
CPU Stats

20. System
Information
Monitored Metrics:
- Reserved Size(GB)
- Current Size(GB)
- Threads
- Elapsed Time(Sec)

21. JOBS
Monitored Metrics:
- Active Jobs
- Interactive Jobs
- Total Jobs
- Maximum Jobs

22. JVM Monitored Metrics:
- Current Heap Size(MB)
- In Use Heap Size(MB)

23. Discovery & mapping
Eliminating performance bottlenecks from iSeries
infrastructure

24. Represents whether a particular monitor is currently available to
undertake requests.
Represents the overall state of the monitor. Depends on
the severity of all the other attributes.
Up
Down
Availabilit
y
Clear
Warning
Critical
Health

25. Clear
Warning
CriticalHealth

26. Discovery & mapping
Analyzing server performance reports, and organizing
business dashboards

27. Reports
Trend Analysis Report:
Understand performance trends of your business servers based on historical data to predict future trends
and stay informed.
Forecast Report:
Let Applications Manager make forecast based on utilization as well as growth trends of your servers
Reports based on Monitor Types and their respective metrics:
Generate reports instantaneously for custom attributes of individual monitors, monitor types and even
monitor groups

28. Trend analysis report
• History Report
• Hour of Day Report
• Day of Week Report
• Statistical Report
• Heat Chart

29. Forecast report
• Balance hardware costs with computing needs.
• Staying informed about current disk usage trends and plan future disk utilization requirements.

30. View & compare reports
Compare attribute reports of various
different monitors or monitors within
a particular group.

31. Dashboards
• Customize with widgets
• Create and publish
multiple dashboards
• Unified business view of
your entire server
infrastructure

32. Drop us a line at:
Support
appmanager-support@manageengine.com
Eval
eval-apm@manageengine.com
Online Demo
demo.appmanager.com
Quick Recap:
• Key metrics while Monitoring your business critical Servers
• Process wise break up of ASP and Queues
• Monitoring JVM and Heap usage of DB2 for i
• Reports and custom dashboards

33. Support
appmanager-support@manageengine.com
Eval
eval-apm@manageengine.com
Online Demo
demo.appmanager.com