You have the afternoon off—but not the responsibility of monitoring your system for issues. This includes responding to application and system messages as they occur on your production IBM i jobs. You don’t want to carry your laptop around just in case you need to VPN back to answer a message that is waiting on your month-end process. What option do you have?
Your organization has invested in a security information event manager, or SIEM, to receive and analyse security and event log information from a variety of servers. Now they want to also get this information from their IBM Power Systems server.
Historical performance monitoring and modeling across your IT environment
In an increasingly virtualized world, it’s becoming more and more difficult to understand performance across your IT enterprise. Performance Navigator performance analysis software allows you to see what’s truly occurring on your mission critical systems. With current day and historical performance data,...
When it comes to capacity planning for IBM i, skip the shortcuts. This article shares expert recommendations on how to avoid the most common capacity planning mistakes.
Watch our on-demand webinar to learn how you can use RPA to power your CRM system with the most up-to-date data from your critical business applications.
Check out IBM's new READ INTENSIVE SSDs.
This is a note to highlight some of the pros and cons - and dig a little deeper into one of the cons - of IBM's recently announced new class of solid state disk drives, "read intensive" (RI) SSDs.
The new RI-SSD comes in one flavor, a 1.86 TB drive. The new concept to wrap your head around is that the drive will "wear out" if you write...
Robot Console is a fully automated, customizable tool that sends you only the IBM i messages you need to see. This makes your monitoring more effective—you won’t miss crucial information—and more efficient.
Exchanging a high workload of files with customers, employees, and trading partners is common in today's global economy. Add various data security standards to the mix, like PCI DSS, HIPAA, and the GDPR, and protecting sensitive data becomes a challenge many organizations struggle to overcome.
In an effort to simplify how file transfers are retrieved, many IT teams install...
We know finding the right file transfer solution for your organization isn’t an easy process. There are dozens of details to consider - from industry and compliance concerns, to critical cybersecurity needs; choosing a vendor can be complex.
In this ultimate buyer’s guide, you’ll find the information you need to successfully evaluate different managed file transfer solutions....
Performance Navigator® requires an ODBC connection to connect to your IBM i system, but it does not come with your PC’s operating system. IBM has a downloadable they’ve titled Access Client Solutions, which we recommend our customers use to get that ODBC connection.
Will this product hurt the performance of my IBM i®?
You will not even notice that the product is working. The data gathering software is already part of the OS. I currently have a subscription to IBM's PM for Power service.
How is Performance Navigator compared to PM?
Glad you asked... Performance Navigator uses exactly the same input as PM for Power, Collection Services....
If you’re hearing terms like digital workforce, software robot, and automation center of excellence, but aren’t sure what it all means, this webinar is for you. Learn about the advantages of automation with RPA, real-life robotic process automation use cases, and common RPA terminology.
Automation is a great way to streamline your SharePoint processes. Watch the webinar to learn how to keep these documents and information synced with the rest of your corporate data.
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.
When was the last time you reviewed your Robot Console message automation? If you’re out of practice, let’s take a look at what you can do to maximize your message automation and reports.
Creating an automation center of excellence (COE) ensures that you are automating your enterprise with strategy and vision. This guide gives you the expertise you need to put together a great team, follow best practices, and continually optimize your automation COE.