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Robot/CONSOLE 5 enhanced with Host mode

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With the introduction of Robot/CONSOLE Host mode, the Robot/CONSOLE Explorer (graphical user interface) interacts directly with Robot/NETWORK, to allow you to manage messages, resources, and logs from any system in your network.

If your systems are connected in a network using Robot/NETWORK, Help/Systems’ network management software, Robot/CONSOLE Host Mode allows you to send components among systems, receive statuses from other systems, and provide cross-system redirection. You can send components such as message sets, message groups, message centers, message tables, OPAL tables, message queue monitors, resource monitors, and notification lists. With Robot/CONSOLE Host mode, you can:

  • Standardize your network. If you want to run the same message management setup on multiple systems, set up Robot/CONSOLE in the Product Master on the Host system, then send it to the Nodes and other Hosts in the network. You also can send objects from a Node to a Host, from a Node to another Node, or from a Host to Host. Standardizing your remote System i operations simplifies maintenance work on your network.
  • Save time. You save time because you don’t have to create the same Robot/CONSOLE setup or message information on each Host and Node, one at a time.
  • Control your network from one site. You can control network message management from one Host system. This is a huge benefit if you are automating System i operations at your remote sites.
  • Consolidate reporting. You can create consolidated versions of certain Robot/CONSOLE reports that include information from multiple systems in the network. Collect and combine information from the systems in the network to reduce the number of reports needed to manage your systems and to perform system-to-system comparisons.

Using Robot/CONSOLE in Host mode
When you connect to a system in Host mode, the Robot/CONSOLE Explorer offers additional functions that allow you to send and receive information from the other systems in the network.

You define network Host systems and their Nodes during Robot/NETWORK setup. A system must be designated as a Robot/NETWORK Host before Robot/CONSOLE can connect to it in Host mode (each Host system is also a Node to itself).

Using the Send To Wizard
Use the Send To Wizard to send message centers, monitored objects, message sets, tables, and other message management objects to the other systems in the network.

From the Product Master on the Host, you can send all types of setup information to the Host’s Nodes and to other Hosts that are visible to the Host system.

From the Nodes, you can send message management objects to the Product Master on the Host system and to the other Node systems in the network.

Contributed by Sara Williams, Research Technical Consultant