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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...
Monitoring
On-Demand Webinar

How to Access Meaningful Information with Data Visualization

By Mike Stegeman
It's not news that everyone needs accurate business data these days—and they needed it 5 minutes ago. Real-time, actionable information needs to be simple to access and shouldn't require IT to translate it into something a business user will understand. In this webinar you'll see: How Sequel makes your KPIs accessible in powerful dashboards How many ways users can analyze their data in client...
IBM i Business Intelligence
On-Demand Webinar

Your Power Half Hour—From Query to BI with Sequel

By Mike Stegeman
Your IT team is asked to provide IBM i data to people from all over the organization. Upper management wants big picture stats to see how your organization is doing with key performance indicators. Operational users need detailed information—sometimes even down to the minute—to improve operations. Sales needs customer information to provide better service and metrics to make data-driven decisions....
IBM i Business Intelligence
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...
Datasheet

Security Scan for IBM i

Security Scan for IBM i is a free service centered on Fortra’ expertise with the IBM i platform and its unique security concerns.
Blog

Access Data While Maintaining IBM i Security

Tue, 10/16/2018
Why do you need extra data access security on IBM i? Find out. Plus, learn how to secure data access, let users analyze data, and distribute data securely.
IBM i Business Intelligence
Datasheet

Powertech Compliance Monitor for IBM i

Compliance Monitor gathers a broad set of audit and security data from your Power Systems™ running IBM i. Schedule a demo today.
Compliance
IBM i Cybersecurity
Datasheet

Powertech Exit Point Manager for IBM i

Protect your organization from the high cost and negative publicity of security breaches by tracking, monitoring, and controlling access to your data with Powertech Exit Point Manager for IBM i. Schedule a demo today. Your Greatest Threat May Come from Within In the age of HIPAA, SOX, and PCI, every company needs a security policy that controls data access for users. In today’s networked...
Compliance
IBM i Cybersecurity
Powertech Compliance Monitor for IBM i
Article

Managing Your IBM i Audit Data

By Robin Tatam on Wed, 08/01/2018
Let’s face it; system administration remains a largely thankless task. From scheduling jobs to balancing workloads to answering messages in QSYSOPR, administrators and operators work diligently behind the scenes to ensure that IBM i servers are available to run mission-critical applications.
Compliance
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.
Guide

Download "The Complete Guide to Securing IBM i Exit Points"

    Exit points and exit programs aren’t new concepts, but we get more questions about them than any other topic related to IBM i security. Most people who work with IBM i have heard of them but aren’t sure if they need to use them. This guide is designed to equip IBM i pros with information about what exit points are and how exit programs work, along with their...
Data Protection
Vulnerability Management
IBM i Cybersecurity
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...