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The AI Journal: From Criminal Pastime to Cybersecurity Tool

Thu, 03/14/2024

Ethical hacking has become one of the most powerful tools for preventing cyber threats. Kyle Gaertner spoke with The AI Journal about the tool's importance.

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Black Hat 2023: Bob Erdman on the Dark Reading News Desk

By Bob Erdman on Mon, 08/21/2023

Bob Erdman joined the Dark Reading News Desk live at Black Hat 2023. He spoke about Fortra’s collaboration with Microsoft and Health-ISAC to stop unauthorized software usage.

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Adding Flexibility to IBM i Monitoring Without Compromising Availability

By Kurt Thomas on Tue, 06/01/2021

To cope with system issues, you want easy yet comprehensive solutions that handle your performance, messaging, and remote management needs, but what you really need are integrated solutions for universal control. See where Robot Monitor fits in.

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Best Automation Practices for Robot Console

By Tom Huntington on Mon, 05/17/2021

When you apply rules to system events, automation software like Robot Console works like the autopilot on a boat or plane—it steers the system through the night or the weekend while you rest.

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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.

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Mobile Dashboards for IBM i Monitoring

By Chuck Losinski on Wed, 08/07/2019

Robot Console leverages the power of Fortra' dashboards containing browser access! Mobile-friendly dashboards allow you to combine key message summary and resource status data into a single, intuitive view. Read on to learn more.

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Remember the IFS!

By Robin Tatam on Thu, 06/27/2019

Ask any security professional which area of IBM i security is most often ignored and chances are that the unanimous response is a chorus of “the Integrated File System.” Although it’s been around since V3R1, the Integrated File System, or IFS, remains a shrouded mystery that represents significant risk to many IBM i organizations.

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Two-Way Message Response with Robot

By Chuck Losinski on Wed, 05/01/2019

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?

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Interacting with Powertech SIEM Agent for IBM i

By Robin Tatam on Thu, 03/21/2019

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.

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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.

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Message Received?

By Chuck Losinski on Fri, 02/23/2018

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.

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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.

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Protect the IBM i Command Line with Powertech Command Security for IBM i

By Robin Tatam on Fri, 03/24/2017

A user’s ability to execute commands in a green-screen environment is controlled by the limit capabilities (LMTCPB) parameter on their profile. Although without exit programs to extend IBM i security functions, even limited capability users could invoke commands through network interfaces such as FTP.

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Command Access Can Bring Unexpected Consequences

By Robin Tatam on Fri, 03/24/2017

Does this sound familiar? You recently experienced an “unplanned outage” after an administrator inadvertently issued a PWRDWNSYS command while mentoring a new operator.

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Application Monitoring and More in Robot Console 6

By Chuck Losinski on Fri, 02/24/2017

As more applications on IBM i become Java- or web-based, they’re less likely to send their important messages to a message queue. But don’t worry—Robot Console has that covered.

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Using NFS with Webdocs – iSeries

Tue, 01/24/2017

Webdocs – iSeries references the documents it stores by an IFS (Integrated File System) path. There is, however, no requirement that the IFS path refer to a file system on local disk. In fact, for many Webdocs iSeries implementations, it is advantageous to store some or all of the documents from Webdocs on remote file systems that are shared using NFS (Network File System) and mounted into the IFS...

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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.

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Enhanced Resource Monitoring with Robot Console

By Chuck Losinski on Tue, 08/30/2016

Robot Console has some exciting features for resource monitoring. You can automate the verification of your system resources and more!

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How Network Monitoring and Document Management Work Together

By Kevin Jackson on Wed, 08/24/2016

Maximize productivity and amp up your security by using network monitoring and document management solutions together.

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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.

The AI Journal: From Criminal Pastime to Cybersecurity Tool

Black Hat 2023: Bob Erdman on the Dark Reading News Desk

Adding Flexibility to IBM i Monitoring Without Compromising Availability

Best Automation Practices for Robot Console

Why Relying on Scripted Operations Can Be a Problem for Your Business

Mobile Dashboards for IBM i Monitoring

Remember the IFS!

Two-Way Message Response with Robot

Interacting with Powertech SIEM Agent for IBM i

The Many Ways Robot Supports SNMP

Message Received?

What Really Matters in IBM i Monitoring?

Protect the IBM i Command Line with Powertech Command Security for IBM i

Command Access Can Bring Unexpected Consequences

Application Monitoring and More in Robot Console 6

Using NFS with Webdocs – iSeries

Customer Spotlight: Heartland Financial USA, Inc.

Enhanced Resource Monitoring with Robot Console

How Network Monitoring and Document Management Work Together

Robot and FlashCopy

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