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Performance Navigator Overview and Demonstration

Wed, 09/27/2023

Watch this video for an overview of Performance Navigator’s key components and a demonstration of how you can use it to optimize your IT enterprise.

On-Demand Webinar

Sizing Power10 Correctly with Performance Navigator

By Tom Huntington

Watch this 30-minute webinar to learn how to plan your move to Power10, whether it's on-prem, dynamic capacity on-premises (PEP2), or in the cloud.

On-Demand Webinar

Performance Navigator Training: Automated Performance Reporting

By Tom Huntington

Watch this webinar and learn how to automate daily, weekly, and monthly performance reporting using the Performance Navigator software from Fortra.

On-Demand Webinar

IBM i Automation Series: Performance

By Chuck Losinski

Watch this webinar series for your FREE opportunity to learn what every user should know about Robot Monitor and Performance Navigator software for IBM i (iSeries, AS/400) monitoring, plus advanced tips and tricks.

Article

Three Essential Steps to Successful Performance Management

Tue, 08/24/2021

Performance management is often made to look cumbersome and complex, but we’ve distilled the process down to three essential steps.

Blog

Realize ROI with Robot

By Tom Huntington on Sun, 03/28/2021

Robot has a reputation for providing high-quality systems management software and backing it up with great support. These additional benefits can help you justify the cost of automation at your company.

Article

Performance Navigator vs. IBM PM400

By Randy Watson on Mon, 01/25/2021

This article presents a technical review of how Performance Navigator stacks up as a replacement for IBM Performance Management for Power Systems (PM400).

Blog

IBM Performance Management for Power Systems (PM400) Discontinued

By Randy Watson on Thu, 01/07/2021

PM400 is dead, now what? Don’t worry! Fortra has a ready-made replacement in Performance Navigator. Read on to learn more.

On-Demand Webinar

External vs. Internal Storage: Which Is Right for Me?

By Robert Jenkins

Watch this webinar where our panel of technology experts discuss the reasons why many organizations are taking advantage of SAN technology for virtualization, high availability, backup management, and more.

On-Demand Webinar

Lights-Out Automation for IBM i Data Centers

By Tom Huntington

In a time when unattended computer operations are expected, IBM i is the right platform. Watch this webinar to get the success formula for lights-out automation.

Article

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.

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.

Article

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.

Blog

Database Transaction Log Management

Mon, 03/06/2017

Don't let database transaction logs weigh you down. Find out how to preserve data integrity and consume less disk space.

Article

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.

On-Demand Webinar

Quick and Easy IBM i Disk Space Management

By Chuck Losinski

Studies show that the amount of data stored worldwide will grow by 4,300% within 7 years. 80% of that growth is on enterprise servers like your IBM i. If you want to be prepared to manage that kind of big data, watch this webinar!

Guide

Analyzing IBM i Performance Metrics

Article

Is the i Ready for the Three Vs of Big Data?

By Tom Huntington on Mon, 06/27/2016

The three Vs of big data are volume, velocity, and variety, but in order derive value from big data, IT departments need tools to store massive amounts of data (volume) and make sure it is always available for quick analysis (velocity).

Performance Navigator Overview and Demonstration

Sizing Power10 Correctly with Performance Navigator

Performance Navigator Training: Automated Performance Reporting

IBM i Automation Series: Performance

Three Essential Steps to Successful Performance Management

Realize ROI with Robot

Performance Navigator vs. IBM PM400

IBM Performance Management for Power Systems (PM400) Discontinued

External vs. Internal Storage: Which Is Right for Me?

Lights-Out Automation for IBM i Data Centers

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

Capacity Planning and the Culture of Proof

Performance Navigator

Top 5 Capacity Planning Mistakes on IBM i

What Really Matters in IBM i Monitoring?

Database Transaction Log Management

Customer Spotlight: Heartland Financial USA, Inc.

Quick and Easy IBM i Disk Space Management

Analyzing IBM i Performance Metrics

Is the i Ready for the Three Vs of Big Data?

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