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Setting Up Robot/NETWORK to Work With a Robot/SAVE Data Center

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Robot/NETWORK

This Help/FACTS describes how to install and configure Robot/NETWORK 10 to work with a Robot/SAVE 11 data center.

Attention: The configuration described in this Help/FACTS is not a standard Robot/NETWORK configuration. In this configuration, Robot/NETWORK can be used only with a Robot/SAVE data center.

Before You Begin

Keep the following items in mind before you set up Robot/NETWORK and your Robot/SAVE data center.

  • Robot/SAVE must be at release 11.0 or higher. To use Robot/NETWORK with Robot/SAVE, Robot/NETWORK Host R10M00 or higher and/or Node R10M00 or higher must be installed and configured on the IBM i servers that will be in the data center.
  • To display your current release and modification levels, type RBTSYSLIB/RSLVER from a command prompt and press Enter.
  • To use Robot/NETWORK with a Robot/SAVE data center, you cannot be using cross-system reactivity with Robot/SCHEDULE, or message escalation with Robot/CONSOLE, in your environment.
  • For successful network communications, Robot/NETWORK requires a fully qualified TCP/IP host name in the format of system_name.domain_name to be in the host table and/or the DNS server. You can use the command CFGTCP and options 10 and 12 to set up host names. For more information, contact your system administrator or Help/Systems Technical Support.
  • To set up Robot/NETWORK, you need to know the system names and IP addresses of your Host and Node system(s).

Prerequisite System i Software

To use Robot/NETWORK, you must have the following software installed on your IBM i server:

OS Level Software Required
Any*

QSHELL - product option 0030

Portable App Solutions Environment (PASE) Option 33
V7R1

Java SE 6 32-bit 5761JV1 Option 11 (recommended)

Java SE 6 64-bit 5761JV1 Option 12 
V6R1

Java Developer Kit 6.0 5761JV1 Option 10

Java SE 6 32-bit 5761JV1 Option 11 (recommended)

Java SE 6 64-bit 5761JV1 Option 12 

PTF 5761SS1 - SI30973

PTF 5761SSI - SI31025
V5R4

Java Developer Kit 5761JV1 Option 10

Java Developer Kit 5761JV1 Option 11 (recommended)

* Robot/NETWORK is supported for i5/OS V5R4 and higher.

Setting Up Robot/NETWORK and Your Data Center

To set up Robot/NETWORK and your Robot/SAVE data center, do the following:

  1. Install and configure Robot/NETWORK Host, or higher, on the system that will be the Host system. During the installation, a screen displays to help you configure the Host system. You must know the system name and IP address of your Host system.
  2. Install and configure Robot/NETWORK Node on the system(s) that will be part of your Robot/SAVE data center. During the installation, a screen displays to help you configure the Node system. You must know the system name and IP address of your Host and Node system(s).

    3. Note:

    To configure Robot/NETWORK, the following Robot/Network monitor jobs must be active in the RBTSLEEPER subsystem on the Host system: NETHOST, NETHOST1, NETHOST2, and NETHOST3. On the Nodes Netnode, Netnode1, Netnode2, if these monitors are not active, use the following command to start them:

    RBTNETLIB/RBNSTRHOST

    RBTNETNODE/RBNSTRNODE

  3. Verify that your Robot/Network systems are communicating properly by entering the following command on the Host system and reviewing the job log:

    4. RBTNETLIB/RBNPOLLSYS SYSTEM(*ALL)

  4. Set up your Robot/SAVE data center using the Help/FACTS, Defining a Data Center, located on the Help/Systems Web site at https://www.helpsystems.com/uploads/rbsdefdc.pdf.

 

Updated March 22, 2012 JR