Monitoring AS/400 Servers

eG Enterprise prescribes a specialized AS400 monitoring model (see Figure 1), which uses SNMP to extract and analyze a wealth of performance metrics from the server and the OS400 operating system, and thus report operational deficiencies.

Figure 1 : Layer model of an AS/400 server

For the brief discussion on each layer of Figure 1, refer to the following topics;

• The AS400 Jobs Layer
• The AS400 Queues Layer
• The AS400 System Layer
• The Network Layer
• The Operating System Layer