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Monitor VIOS (and AIX) from Your IBM i

By Chuck Losinski
With more organizations running AIX/VIOS and IBM i on the same Power server, you need better visibility. Watch this webinar to see how Robot Monitor is your single solution for real-time monitoring, notification, and reporting for AIX, VIOS, and IBM i.
Monitoring
How to go from simple to strategic capacity management
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Blog

How to Go from Simple to Strategic Capacity Management

By Per Bauer on Fri, 03/17/2017
Capacity Management Strategies If IT was like a restaurant…then capacity management should be like the restaurant manager (aka Maître D’). Unfortunately, too many organizations are using capacity management as the clean-up department. When something goes wrong, capacity management fixes it. And while that used to work, that’s not the best practice to follow today. A Brief History of Capacity...
Automation
Guide
Guide

DevOps Development: Keeping the Lights On

Overview : The DevOps methodology embodies two core philosophies: decreasing the lead time of software deployment and the automation of delivery and testing. DevOps emerged as a practical response to the agile development movement, in contrast with traditional, phase-based or “waterfall” development, which is inefficient and labor-intensive. Traditional methods should be phased out, and companies...
Infrastructure Management
Capacity Planning for IT Managers
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Capacity Planning

By Per Bauer on Tue, 03/14/2017
Have you ever experienced an online service outage? It’s like losing half your physical locations without any warning. Downtime is a huge problem. It stops your revenue stream. It compromises customer loyalty. It damages your brand’s reputation. And it wastes hours and IT resources to fix the problem—when it shouldn’t have been a problem to begin with. Isn’t it about time you prevented downtime...
Automation
Guide
Guide

Dashboards Don't Work (Unless You Have a Metrics Management Strategy)

Tech has had a tremendous impact on the way today’s businesses seek continued growth and improvement. No matter what business they are in, executives everywhere are investing in technology that improves their business processes, gets them ahead of the competition and widens their margins. Ultimately, the return on that investment is determined by how well technology supports a business’ ability to...
Infrastructure Management
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Stop Feeding IBM i Performance Hogs

By Chuck Losinski
Runaway jobs and processes like the many-headed QZDASOINIT beast are infamous for gobbling up resources. Watch this webinar and learn how to round up runaway database server jobs and more to protect system performance.
Monitoring
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IBM i Monitoring by the Dashboard Light

By Chuck Losinski
Your network operations center is full of monitors, and each monitor might have multiple screens where technicians search to find system and application information. It’s time to get a single, graphical view to visualize performance and processes. Watch this webinar to discover Robot Monitor dashboards.
Monitoring
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SQL-Based Monitoring with Robot Monitor

By Chuck Losinski
Part of what makes Robot Monitor so powerful is the ability to perform custom monitoring across system and application values via user-defined SQL statements. Get the real-time visibility and historical data you need to keep performance issues under control.
Monitoring