Community Post: List of IBM i System Monitoring Products

Here’s my current list of vendors who provide IBM i system monitoring products.

• Arpeggio Software SIFT-IT Detection and Auditing Software
• Bytware Messenger Solutions (Owned by Help/Systems)
• CCSS System Management Solutions (owned by Help/Systems)
• COMTEK, COMTEK/400 Agent for iSeries
• DRVTech MessageFlex
• Halcyon Software System Monitoring Software for IBM i Servers
• Kisco Information Systems iEventMonitor
• Kisco Information Systems SNDTWEET
• Nagios, Check AS/400 plugin for monitoring IBM i systems
• Redbourn Business Systems Integrated System Management Service
• RevSoft Rev Message
• SEA absMessage

Please let me know if you know of any other software packages that should be added to this list. A good IBM i system monitoring package can provide many benefits when a problem occurs on your system.

• It can alert responsible personnel whenever a programming or system problem occurs on your system. Alerts are usually sent out via email, text message, tweet, operator message queue, or other means.
• It can eliminate the need for overnight personnel to monitor the system for problems
• It can be automatically configured to answer messages or allow you to answer messages from other devices, such as cell phones
• It can escalate alerts to other staff if the first person on the alert doesn’t answer the message
• It can sometimes kick off other programs, commands, APIs, etc. when things go wrong