Robot/ALERT: Message Notification Software

Connect to the Automated Operations Software Solution 
If you want to run your System i unattended, Robot/ALERT, Help/Systems’ System i message notification software is critical component of your message management solution. Robot/ALERT sends e-mail, pager, or text messages quickly and easily from the Robot Automated Software Solution products to your operations staff. You can even embed Robot/ALERT commands in your programs or send messages using the Robot Browser Interface.

• Send messages from your system i to any device—laptops, PCs, cell phones, pagers, and others—to keep you in touch with your System i anywhere.
• Use two-way messaging to answer System i messages directly from your device.
• Send messages to everyone on a list, or just the person on duty. Robot/ALERT can even check schedules to find the correct people.
• All you need for fast, easy communication and notification is a communication line and an IBM-compatible modem or TCP/IP.
• Works with any paging service that uses the TAP industry-standard computer interface and supports the protocols of more than 90 paging services, including SkyTel.

Send and Receive Two-Way E-mail Messages With Attachments
With Robot/ALERT assisting you with message management, you can perform two-way e-mail messaging with attachments.

• Send pages to an e-mail address.
• Send e-mail messages, including IFS file attachments, and receive responses.
• Send messages to and from pagers quickly and reliably.
• Send and receive messages using PCs, pagers, cell phones, and other devices.
• Define broadcast lists of multiple recipients containing both e-mail and paging devices.
• Send Pager and E-mail Messages Using a Web Browser

Use the Robot Browser Interface with Robot/ALERT to send messages quickly and efficiently from anywhere in the world using your favorite device—PC, pager, cell phone, or other, and any standard Web browser software. Or, use a broadcast list to send messages to a group, or to escalate an issue.

Easy Setup, Configuration, and Maintenance
Robot/ALERT provides tools to help you setup and manage message notification.

• Robot/GUIDE, the online assistant, makes it easy to set up and manage your e-mail and paging vendors, devices, and communication jobs.
• During installation, Robot/GUIDE walks you through the setup process automatically. After installation, use Robot/GUIDE to create new vendors, devices, or communication jobs.
• Robot/ALERT’s menu system makes it easy to maintain your vendors, devices, and communication jobs.

Fast, Efficient Communication
Communication is fast and efficient because Robot/ALERT helps you you manage message notification by:

• Grouping e-mail and pager messages for a vendor into communication requests
• Queuing requests for the next available communication job
• Scheduling communication jobs for maximum efficiency
• Checking for failed communications at regular intervals
• Recovering failed jobs

Hold or Release Communication Jobs and Devices
Robot/ALERT further assists your with message management tasks by allowing you to control jobs and devices individually.

• Hold or release communication jobs or devices without holding or releasing Robot/ALERT.
• Hold or release a Robot/ALERT communication job as soon as it completes processing using menu options or a command. And, you can restart the job when Robot/ALERT is released.
• Hold or release any device defined to Robot/ALERT using menu options or a command. When you release a device, you can purge its collected messages.

Use Less Hardware—No Need to Dedicate Modems to Vendors
Using the Robot/ALERT communication job concept, you don’t have to dedicate a modem to a vendor. Just define a communication job for each modem you want to use. Your communication jobs work together efficiently—if one is busy, another one takes over and sends the message.

Team Robot/ALERT with the rest of the Robot Automated Operations Solution
Automated message notification is a key part of any automation solution. Robot/ALERT notifies you when jobs end, when messages go unanswered, when thresholds are reached, when security is breached, or when devices need attention.

Robot/ALERT message notification software works with the products of the Robot Automated Operations Software Solution to keep you on top of message management.

• Robot/SCHEDULE, the automatic computer operator and job scheduler, sends an e-mail, pager, or text message when important jobs start, finish, or fail. When you add Robot/REPLAY, the Robot/SCHEDULE plug-in that automates interactive jobs, Robot/ALERT also notifies you about your interactive processes.
   
• Robot/CONSOLE, the message management software, notifies you when an important message needs a response. Robot/ALERT works with Robot/CONSOLE to notify you if important system messages aren’t answered in a reasonable amount of time. Using two-way messaging, you can respond quickly, anywhere.
   
• Robot/AUTOTUNE, the dynamic performance tuning and monitoring package, uses Robot/ALERT to let you know when a performance problem crops up.
• Robot/SAVE, the automatic backup and recovery software, uses Robot/ALERT to send you a text, pager, or e-mail message when it needs help with a backup.
   
• Robot/REPORTS, the report management software, works with Robot/ALERT to e-mail reports to selected users as PDF or HTML files, automatically, across your company’s intranet, or the Internet.
   
• Robot/NETWORK, the network management software, can use Robot/ALERT to send a message when a system anywhere in the network needs attention. Add Robot/CONSOLE and Robot/TRAPPER, the SNMP trap and device manager software, and you can monitor all of the devices across your entire enterprise.