IBM i Watchdog by First Option is a an IBM i (iSeries, AS 400) monitoring solution that provides centralized management via a user friendly interface for key system health threshold alert definitions, day, time and duration to suspend monitoring to accommodate scheduled maintenance, customized email groups for routing of informational and inquiry messages to a pre-defined support team.  

A color coded screen alerts NOC staff to critical problems that require an immediate response as well as warns of potential problems.  Inquiry messages can be responded to directly from the system management screen.  Detailed message interrogation down to the job level.  Job Queue depth interrogation to send an alert when the queue exceeds a number of jobs over a specified period of time.

The initial set up can be completed in under an hour.  An SSL connection is established to send your data to an FOI server housed in a data center that provides a secure environment and 24/7 infrastructure. Central management alerts for systems that have not reported status.  

Features and Functionality:

• Centralized easy to use system management user interface that allows inquiry message response.
• System problem interrogation.
• Ability to bypass problem alerts for specific problems to reduce the ‘noise’ factor
• QSYSOPR informational and inquiry message interrogation.
• Ability to monitor and report messages down to a specific job within a specific subsystem or as generic as a job that starts with specific characters.
• Ability to bypass message alerts for specific messages to reduce the ‘noise’ factor.
• Disk interrogation.
• Ability to bypass specific disk messages.
• Ability to keep track of saved and unsaved objects.
• DASD interrogation with user defined thresholds.
• Tape status with user defined time thresholds.
• Customized email groups for alert distributions.

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