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Article

Capacity Planning and the Culture of Proof

By Timothy Prickett Morgan on Fri, 05/31/2019

Capacity planning is one of the most important things that a company will do, and yet there are still many companies that do it on the back of the envelope. Read this article and learn how to do it right.

Datasheet

Performance Navigator

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, you know exactly...

Article

Top 5 Capacity Planning Mistakes on IBM i

By Tom Huntington on Tue, 02/12/2019

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.

Datasheet

Robot Monitor and Database Server Jobs

Robot Monitor IBM i performance monitoring software provides fast resolution for QZDASOINIT job issues. Read on to learn more.

On-Demand Webinar

Virtualization Considerations for POWER9 Hardware Changes

By Chuck Losinski

Watch this webinar and learn how to monitor and replicate your virtualized IBM i environment using Robot Monitor and Robot HA.

Article

If It Has Moving Parts, Someday It's Going to Fail.

Sat, 11/03/2018

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 too much over the...

Guide

How to Right-Size Your Power10 Capacity and Configuration

Datasheet

Robot Suite of Products

With the right IT operations management and infrastructure monitoring tools from Robot in place, your IT team can give your business the competitive edge by streamlining processes, improving scalability, and staying a step ahead of performance issues. Schedule a demo today.

On-Demand Webinar

Systems Management Tips Using IBM i Services with Dawn May

By Dawn May

Don't miss this recorded webinar where Dawn May discusses a better and faster interface for many IBM i systems management tasks.

Article

How to Download an ODBC Driver

Wed, 07/25/2018

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.

Article

FAQs about Performance Navigator

Thu, 07/12/2018

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. Performance Navigator...

On-Demand Webinar

The Virtualization Blind Spot

By Chuck Losinski

75 percent of IBM i shops run multiple partitions per server. But what aren't they seeing? Watch now and learn how to monitor virtualized IBM i environments with Robot Monitor.

Article

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.

Datasheet

Robot Monitor

Robot Monitor allows you to monitor and investigate issues on your IBM i and AIX operating systems, so you can resolve issues before they escalate and plan for future needs by tracking and analyzing past performance trends.