Informer

A powerful application monitoring and debugging solution for the IBM System i. It’s purpose is to make your job easier and give you greater control over your IT systems.Informer has been developed to allow you, the busy IT manager, more time to address the day to day issues of your job, safe in the knowledge that your IT systems are monitoring themselves.
Informer empowers you with the ability to deal proactively with situations as they arise. The sooner a problem is highlighted and diagnosed, the sooner it can be dealt with.
Informer is your man on the inside, monitoring your systems 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, diagnosing and informing, alerting you to issues that need to be addressed.

Manage work flow within your organisation
Informer can send messages via the iSeries/400 break message function and additionally to any local or remote printer.
Inform Human Resources when an employee has exceeded a predefined number of sick days in a year.
Inform Stock Control when inventory drops below the minimum stock level.
Inform Quality Control on completion of a production batch.
Communicate with the outside world
Informer can send messages via email to anywhere in the world and to a mobile phone as an SMS message.
Inform a customer when their order has been processed, effectively transmitting an electronic order acknowledgement.
Inform a supplier when a BACS payment has been made, effectively transmitting an electronic payment advice.
Use as a debugging tool
Informer can monitor for program errors resulting in data corruption and then send a message identifying the name of the program that caused it, the user who called it, the workstation it was called from and the date and time that it happened.

Informer monitors for predetermined events via a seamless interface with your existing bespoke or package applications.
Informer targets key personnel within your organisation and reports it’s findings, as they happen.
Informer can also be configured to monitor for errors caused by application software, immediately identifying and reporting the origin of such problems.
Informer enhances your legacy software with no requirement for programming resources or source code.
Informer exploits iSeries/400 standard features and resides invisibly between your application software and the operating system, giving 100% reliability.
Informer formalises communication throughout your organisation, integrating the latest email and SMS messaging technology with the familiarity and reliability of your existing systems.
Simply brief Informer with your requirements and it will blend into the background, silently observing your day to day transactions and processes.
Note: Informers unique “Watch & Tell” logic is designed so that it cannot change or impact upon monitored applications and has been developed to give maximum return with minimal system overhead.