BMC Performance Manager for iSeries

Business Challenge

In today's IT world, efficient monitoring, 24x7 uptime, and optimized performance are critical to success. As companies use a variety of technologies to meet their needs, the complexity of their systems increases.

Business Need

• Monitor AS/400 systems efficiently
• Exceed service level expectations
• Optimize critical AS/400 infrastructure
• Generate an in-depth analysis if problems are detected with any key resource
• Identify network overloads and support server cluster system management and monitoring

Our Solution

PATROL for iSeries automates repetitive monitoring tasks to reduce the burden on system administrators, increase management efficiency and maximize availability in AS/400 and the new iSeries environments. This product provides current and historical information through a centralized console so you can see the status of your entire iSeries or AS/400 environments. From the CPU and file systems to printers, you can drill down to view detailed parameter data. PATROL for iSeries can also proactively take corrective action before problems occur, preventing downtime and its costs to your business.

Key Features & Benefits

• Helps you manage performance and availability by reporting and monitoring across critical areas of iSeries and AS/400 operation
• Keeps you automatically informed by issuing visual warnings and alarms when thresholds are exceeded
• Offers quick response time by enabling the event-based triggering of automatic user-supplied recovery or intervention actions
• Allows comprehensive management by remote, concurrent monitoring of multiple AS/400 systems from a single PATROL Console
• Can be customized to your needs by allowing execution of AS/400 commands and building of sophisticated automatic recovery actions