Guide
Enterprise Automation: The Holistic Guide
Enterprise IT automation that leverages a strategic approach helps manage diverse automation tools and solutions holistically. Learn more about the key principles to embrace for holistic enterprise IT automation.
Guide
Key Considerations in The Ever-Evolving Data Privacy Landscape
Following our recent webinar on The Ever-Evolving Data Privacy Landscape guest speaker and principal analyst at Forrester. Enza Iannopollo, has answered some of the pressing questions we have seen when it comes to building the foundation of your data security strategy.
Article
Space Oddities—What’s in Your IFS?
By Chuck Losinski on Wed, 01/19/2022
Read this article to learn what might be taking up valuable disk space in the IFS and what you can do to control it.
Guide
A Guide to IBM i Message Management
This guide teaches you how to handle IBM i message management, including the fastest and more accurate ways to monitor for messages, filter critical messages, and escalate messages to members of your team as needed.
Article
Be in Control of Your ERP
By Chuck Losinski on Wed, 03/31/2021
Many ERP packages have built-in schedulers. However, these schedulers are typically not flexible or robust enough to meet the needs of even the smallest data center.
Guide
Robot in Modern IBM i Environments
Robot systems management solutions can improve processes and enhance the return on investment for new technologies running in modern IBM i environments. Find out how.
Guide
How to Handle Explosive IBM i Storage Growth
Data growth projections are simply too big to ignore. It’s essential that IT teams move away from reactive approaches and adopt a sustainable data storage management strategy. This guide is a great resource to get you started.
Article
Why Relying on Scripted Operations Can Be a Problem for Your Business
By Steve Brasen on Tue, 03/31/2020
Scripting provides a powerful platform to automate simple tasks, but overusing custom scripts is hazardous for your business.
Article
IBM on IASP for PowerHA Implementations
By Chuck Losinski on Tue, 03/03/2020
You’ve heard about IASP technology many times over the years, but you’ve been ignoring it, haven’t you? Steve Finnes confirms that it’s past time we “get to know it, understand it, and not be afraid of it.”
Article
Mobile NOW for Robot Network
By Chuck Losinski on Wed, 08/21/2019
The web interface for Robot Network is a browser-based tool that uses Fortra Insite to help you access system performance data for your network of IBM i systems from any laptop, tablet, or smartphone. You can also work in the Robot Network Status Center to see and respond to messages and other events that have been escalated to the Robot Network host system.
Article
Three Tactics to Optimize Your IBM i Disk Space
By Chuck Losinski on Tue, 06/18/2019
Don’t wait for a critical iSeries storage issue to catch you off-guard. Instead, follow these top three tips for using Robot Space to manage your disk space automatically.
Article
The Many Ways Robot Supports SNMP
By Chuck Losinski on Fri, 02/23/2018
Many devices send status updates using SNMP or simple network management protocol. Make sure you’re getting the message. Read on to see how Robot supports SNMP.
Article
What Really Matters in IBM i Monitoring?
By Paul Ratchford on Thu, 09/14/2017
Guard against degraded system performance, data loss, and downtime. Make sure you’re monitoring these 15 metrics on the IBM i operating system.
Article
Customer Spotlight: Heartland Financial USA, Inc.
By Chuck Losinski on Tue, 01/17/2017
The operations team was excited to share how Robot job scheduling and monitoring software has helped them manage their processing needs across platforms from their IBM i.
Article
Continuous Performance Data—Without Big Overhead
By Chuck Losinski on Tue, 08/30/2016
There are two sides to every Robot Network. It offers centralized control of the Robot software running on your IBM i partitions as well as performance monitoring and exception-based management across your environment.
Article
What’s New in the Robot NETWORK Web Interface?
By Chuck Losinski on Tue, 08/16/2016
Just when you were getting used to the GUI, Robot NETWORK gives its web interface a boost that makes managing your performance and Robot product metrics even easier.
Article
Robot and FlashCopy
By Tom Huntington on Tue, 08/16/2016
Last month, Chuck Stupca (retired IBMer) and Chuck Losinski (Fortra) presented a webinar discussing FlashCopy for IBM i. Based on the attendance, it looks like this is a very important topic for many of you so I wanted to explain how FlashCopy ties to Robot products.