Robot Network

Managing a network of IBM i servers is difficult enough without taking on other platforms and devices, but Robot Network makes it easy by connecting with enterprise consoles, letting all your IBM i servers communicate across the enterprise (and escalating unanswered statuses). Robot Network handles all this—QSYSOPR messages, Robot product statuses, and high-level performance monitoring—from a central location for ease of management.

Your Robot Data in One Place

Product Masters in Robot products provide automation standardization for systems management areas across your IBM i environment, including jobs, calendars, and other Robot Schedule setup instructions. These include message handling instructions, resource monitoring criteria for Robot Console, and consolidated audit reports. This technology enables you to ensure automation rules are consistent across your IBM i network. 

Robot Network even consolidates events captured by your other Robot products. When an event occurs that someone should know about, such as a Robot Schedule job terminating, the affected Robot product creates a status record and sends it to the Robot Network host partition. 

If your environment has cross-partition dependencies, Robot Network also gives you the ability to react to jobs completing on another partition and centralize scheduling when used in tandem with Robot Schedule. Add Robot Console on each partition and have your messages redirected to the Robot Network central Status Center.

Management by Exception

Managing your IBM i network by exception means seeing only the issues you need to see, when you need to see them. The Robot Network Status Center gives you that control. Monitor and respond to issues or escalate them to an expert in a variety of formats. Extend your management with central monitoring of issues assigned to you. In the “My Waiting Statuses” tab, you can find details about messages, add notes, and unassign, reassign, and reply to statuses. 

Combine the Status Center and the Map Center, which displays your entire IBMi network in a single window. It also provides central exception notification and control for your entire IBM i network, Robot products, and other applications. 

In addition, when combined with Robot Schedule Enterprise for multi-platform scheduling, you’ll also receive notification if one of your Windows, UNIX, or Linux servers becomes unavailable for a critical job stream or task.

Performance Monitoring Across IBM i

The importance of system performance can’t be understated. That priority only increases for IBM i, where you run your most critical applications. To keep control of that system—its performance metrics, exception notifications, and integrated automation tools— you need a solution with centralized control backed by industry leading automation. 

Robot Network helps you take IBM i to the next level with consolidated automation and monitoring. The Performance Center makes it easy to confirm the overall health of your IBM i environment with current and historical information. It also provides charts, graphs, and reports on over 40 metrics including CPU usage, system ASP usage, and memory faulting rates. You can create multiple threshold levels for these metrics and receive notification if they’re exceeded.