Use this information to learn how to set up a system monitor
in IBM® Navigator
for i and
how to configure it to take the best advantage of the available options.
System monitors are highly interactive tools that you can
use to gather and display near real-time performance data from your
target system. To create a new system monitor, perform the following
steps:
- In IBM Navigator
for i,
select . From the Actions menu,
select Create New System Monitor....
- Specify a monitor name. Use the Create New System
Monitor-General page specify a name for your monitor. Provide
a brief description so you can find the monitor in a list of monitors.
Click Next.
- Select metrics. Use the Create New System Monitor-Metrics page
to select your metrics. To add a metric to the monitor, select it
from the list of Available Metrics, and click Add.
The metric is listed under Metrics to monitor.
- View and change your metric properties. Use the Create
New System Monitor-Metrics page to edit the properties
of each metric by clicking the metric name in the Metrics
to monitor list. This action opens the Configure
Metric page where you can edit the properties of the metric.
- Set collection interval. Use the Configure
Metric page to select the collection interval for the metric.
- Set thresholds. Use the Configure Metric page
to enable thresholds and specify trigger and reset values.
- Set threshold actions. Use the Configure Metric page
to specify the actions you want to occur when a metric threshold is
triggered or reset.
- Click OK to save the metric properties.
- Click Next to see the monitor summary
page.
- Click Finish to save the monitor.
After you create your monitor, right-click the monitor
name and select Start to run the monitor and
begin working with monitor graphs. The monitor will continue to run
and perform any threshold commands or actions you specified until
you stop the monitor.
