iSeries Watchdog by First Option is a new system monitoring solution that was originally developed to assist with First Option’s iSeries outsourcing business. It is now being marketed as software as a service (SaaS) , where a secured connection will be established to the customer, and client software installed to gather the key health statistics of your System i (AS400) server. A monthly fee is charged that includes rental of the client software and graphical front end.

iSeries Watchdog collects key health indicators of System i servers and displays them in a color coded GUI interface. System problems, halt messages, tape drive status, DASD,CPU percentage and disk status are some of the indicators displayed.

Features and Functionality:

• System problem interrogation.
• QSYSOPR message interrogation.
• Ability to monitor and report messages of specific jobs to defined user groups.
• Disk interrogation.
• Ability to keep track of saved and unsaved objects.
• DASD interrogation with user defined thresholds.
• Tape status with user defined thresholds.
• Ensuring client is up and running with message alerts for any problems.
• Ability to customize email distribution for alerts.
• Ability to respond to QSYSOPR messages via the GUI.

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