Does Dynatrace managed / SaaS has the support for IBM AS/400 systems?

[ve00685603]

Does Dynatrace manged / SaaS model has support for IBM AS/400? since we are using some backend systems that these AS/400 involve in handling certain transactions for card payments and some utility services. Your feedback is highly appreciated.

[kalle_lahtinen · Accepted solution]

Hi,

There's an ActiveGate extension for that, which basically means that it's monitored remotely via an ActiveGate plugin. I haven't used this myself, but the documentation here describes what sort of metrics are collected:

https://www.dynatrace.com/support/help/technology-support/application-software/other-technologies/dy...

[Julius_Loman]

This extension does only collect metrics. Unfortunately it won't give you any code level insights or transaction tracking (PurePaths).

[ve00685603]

Thanks a lot for the update and it's really helpful for me to present first cut info to my management on the AS/400.

[ChadTurner]

Thats correct. As @Julius L. stated, it only collected data on metrics. This is an API Custom Extension that polls the data surrounding disk, Memory, CPU and so on. In Essence, it is 1/2 stack monitoring.

[ve00685603]

Thanks Chad for your feedback. Just wondering if it would cost additional licenses if I want to install activegate on AS/400 system. Since, we have already quoted licenses required for our mobile platform and there'a change request from the customer to include AS/400 monitoring on DT. Please advise.

Regards,

Sagar

[Yosi_Neuman]

Hi @SAGAR E.

Extensions consume different type of license called DDU now (was metric).

The amount of consumption depend on:

• Number of Hosts
• Average # of Jobs to be monitored per Host
• Avg. # of CPUs to be monitored per Host
• Avg. # of Disks to be monitored per Host
• Avg. # of Memoy pools to be monitored per Host
• Avg. # of Job queues to be monitored per Host
• Avg. # of Message queues to be monitored per Host

Consult your dynatrace salesman for more information

HTH

Yos