Creating a new monitor
Creating a new monitor is a process that begins at the New Monitor window. In System i® Navigator, expand Management Central, expand Monitors, right-click the type of monitor you want to create (for example, Job), and then click New Monitor.
After you have given your new monitor a name, the next step is to specify what you want to monitor. If you are creating a job monitor, you will select which jobs you want to monitor. Be careful to monitor the smallest number of jobs that will give you the information you need. Monitoring a large number of jobs may have a performance affect on your system.
You can specify the jobs to monitor in these ways:
- Jobs to monitor
- You can specify jobs by their job name, job user, job type and subsystem. When specifying job name, job user and subsystem, you can use an asterisk (*) as a wildcard to represent one or more characters.
- Servers to monitor
- You can specify jobs by their server names. Select from the list of Available servers on the Servers to monitor tab. You can also specify a custom server by clicking the Add custom server button on the New Monitor or Monitor Properties - General page under the Servers to monitor tab. To create a custom server, use the Change Job (QWTCHGJB) API
When multiple job selection criteria are specified, all jobs matching any of the criteria are monitored.