IBM i monitoring

The OS agent is written in the C language.
It is running on IBM i operating system where it regularly (every minute) collects performance data and transfers it every 20 minutes to the XorMon NG server where data is saved and graphically presented.

Monitoring scope

Graph name Metric Per System Per Pool Per ASP IBM i command LPAR2RRD
WRKACTJOB CPU % yes WRKACTJOB
AS400 IBMi monitoring WRKACTJOB
AS400 IBMi monitoring WRKACTJOB
CPUTOP CPU core yes AS400 IBMi monitoring CPUTOP
IOTOP IO/sec yes WRKACTJOB
AS400 IBMi monitoring WRKACTJOB
AS400 IBMi monitoring IOTOP
DiskTOP
disk busy % yes AS400 IBMi monitoring DiskTOP busy
IO/sec yes AS400 IBMi monitoring DiskTOP IO
JOBS
Jobs yes WRKSYSSTS
AS400 IBMi monitoring WRKSYSSTS
AS400 IBMi monitoring Job
Active jobs yes
Active threads yes
ASP free Free capacity yes DSPASPBRM AS400 IBMi monitoring ASP used
ASP used Used capacity yes DSPASPBRM AS400 IBMi monitoring ASP free
ASP used % Used capacity % yes DSPASPBRM
ASP data Data throughput yes WRKDSKSTS
AS400 IBMi monitoring WRKDSKSTS
AS400 IBMi monitoring ASP data
ASP IOPS IO/sec yes WRKDSKSTS
AS400 IBMi monitoring WRKDSKSTS
AS400 IBMi monitoring ASP IO/sec
ASP total latency mili sec yes AS400 IBMi monitoring ASP latency
ASP service time mili sec yes AS400 IBMi monitoring ASP service time
ASP wait time mili sec yes AS400 IBMi monitoring ASP wait time
POOL Pool size yes WRKSYSSTS
AS400 IBMi monitoring WRKSYSSTS
AS400 IBMi monitoring pool
THREADS Current threads yes AS400 threads
Faults
DB faults/sec yes WRKSYSSTS
AS400 IBMi monitoring WRKSYSSTS
AS400 IBMi monitoring faults
non DB faults/sec yes
Pages
DB pages/sec yes WRKSYSSTS
AS400 IBMi monitoring WRKSYSSTS
AS400 IBMi monitoring pages
non DB pages/sec yes
LAN
MB/sec yes AS400 IBMi monitoring LAN
Packets/sec yes
Discarded/sec yes