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The 9 Server Sprawl Questions You Need to Ask

For budding companies, server sprawl may be just one of many growing pains—a temporary inconvenience for a greater good. But if you’re struggling to complete processes on time, stalling with the auditors, and jumping from server to server whenever an error occurs, it’s time to ask the tough questions.
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The #1 Step Before Automation

An up-to-date and comprehensive runbook won't win you any awards. But when you get the green light to implement a workload automation tool, documentation is your lifeline. Unfortunately, most runbooks aren’t up to snuff.
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AAA Life Leverages Fortra Solutions for IT Efficiency

Part of the American Automobile Association (AAA) family, AAA Life Insurance Company offers a variety of competitive life insurance, annuity, and travel accident products. With over one million policies, many people rely on AAA Life to help provide protection for their loved ones. As Senior Systems Engineer at AAA Life, Randy Wittner is in charge of their IBM i environment, overseeing two S824...
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Service Corp Company Benefits From Automation

"Automate Schedule's audit log is crucial to us because one of our SOX controls is to validate that we keep schedule logs for a certain period of time. An audit log is critical for a scheduler."
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Discover Automate's New Capabilities for Office 365

With the eagerly anticipated release of Microsoft’s cloud-based service, Office 365, on June 28, Network Automation immediately set to work on ensuring the current Microsoft Office automation facilities in Automate were enhanced to provide its customers with equivalent automation capabilities.
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AutoMate Bridges the Gap Between Disparate Applications

Automate from Fortra provides application security, streamlined communication including sending emails and text messages to IT regarding successful or failed tasks, error handling, and flexibility and versatility via its highly coveted development interface (no programming or scripting needed).
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mySQL and the SQL Query Action

Automate can easily interact with a mySQL server and its associated databases through the SQL Query and SQL Stored Procedure actions. The document explains how to setup a mySQL data source connection through Automate that can be used to run queries against a mySQL database.
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Debugging Tasks

We'll explore some of the techniques you can use to debug tasks in the Automate Task Builder. Several features available in Automate 6.1 can help make this an easier process.