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The Importance of VIOS

Thu, 08/31/2023
VIOS is considered a standard in organizations running IBM i, AIX, and Linux workloads. But don’t put your business at risk by letting it run unchecked. Learn five areas you must be monitoring.
Monitoring
Datasheet

LEVEL 4: Operations Center Suite

Does This Sound Familiar? How would you answer the following questions? Can you schedule highly complex job streams and track them across different IBM i systems or servers? Are you making effective use of system resources by running jobs at the best time? Do you receive alerts if performance thresholds are breached? Can you quickly identify resource-grabbing jobs and/or users and take...
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LEVEL 3: Advanced Automation Suite

Does This Sound Familiar? How would you answer the following questions? Are you making effective use of system resources by running jobs at the best time? Do you receive alerts if performance thresholds are breached? Can you quickly identify resource-grabbing jobs and/or users and take prompt, corrective action? Can you automate disk space management, freeing technical resources for other...
Datasheet

Level 2: Systems Operations Suite

What Is Level 2: Systems Operations Suite? Level 2 of the Halcyon IBM i Server Suites, Systems Operations Suite offers powerful and highly functional automation features for even tighter control of mission-critical business applications and processes. This solution provides total peace of mind that your IBM i is running at its full potential and maximizing system uptime for your business. Level...
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Level 1: Message Management Suite

Level 1 of the Halcyon IBM i Server Suites, Message Management Suite is an entry-level system monitoring and automation solution for the IBM i operating system. Unlike the basic system reply list that ships with IBM i servers, Level 1 addresses the fact that system-critical information messages often go unnoticed on a busy system.
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Guide

A Single Pane of Glass for Multi-Platform Systems Management

Bring disparate systems, platforms, devices, and applications together in one place and on one screen to make systems management easier and create a consistent and common methodology to varying departments within the IT infrastructure. Combining Halcyon’s Enterprise Console, Operations Center Suite, and Network Server Suite can provide a single pane of glass for managing your IT environment. See how here.
Monitoring
Blog

What Is NVMe?

By Randy Watson on Thu, 04/01/2021
NVMe is a communications interface plus high-performance protocol for accessing non-volatile memory. Learn more here.
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Article

VIOS Performance Monitoring Commands

By Chuck Losinski on Wed, 03/10/2021
You might think VIOS is set and forget, but it’s not. Luckily, VIOS includes a number of command line utilities to help you obtain performance-related information from your VIOS partitions.
Monitoring
On-Demand Webinar

5 Myths About Encryption on IBM i

By Sandi Moore
In this live webinar, IBM i security expert Sandi Moore breaks down some of the most common (and persistent!) myths that stop IT pros from implementing encryption on IBM i.
IBM i Cybersecurity
On-Demand Webinar

Encryption on IBM i Simplified

By Robin Tatam
DB2 Field Procedures (FieldProcs) were introduced in V7R1 and have greatly simplified encryption, often without requiring any application changes. Now you can quickly encrypt sensitive data on the IBM i.
IBM i Cybersecurity