MGX, master distributor for BMC Software in South Africa, has announced the local availability of Patrol for AS/400, a new offering solution designed for proactive management of IBM`s iSeries environment.
Patrol for AS/400 automates repetitive monitoring tasks to reduce the burden on system administrators, increase management efficiency, and maximise availability in AS/400 environments. Patrol monitors critical aspects of AS/400 from a single console, ensuring consistent management across diverse platforms.
It provides a graphic view of all monitored systems including the AS/400 objects: system, message queues, active jobs, ASPs, libraries, subsystems, main storage pools, batch jobs and users.
"The AS/400 is one of the most popular production server platforms in South Africa," says Reg Swart, GM BMC at MGX. "However, many AS/400 sites are complex and include other systems. These companies need to be able to manage their mission-critical applications across heterogeneous environments. Patrol for AS/400 ensures that customers can manage these systems from a single console."
Key features and benefits:
Reports and monitors availability and performance across critical areas of AS/400 and iSeries operation;
Issues visual warnings and alarms when thresholds are exceeded, allowing easy identification of problem areas;
Enables the event-based triggering of automatic user-supplied recovery or intervention actions;
Allows remote, concurrent monitoring of multiple AS/400 and iSeries systems from a single console;
Provides a native autonomous, scalable agent delivering comprehensive Patrol AS/400 platform support;
Patrol Script Language (PSL) API (application program interface) allows the building and execution of sophisticated recovery actions, extending the application monitoring, and the execution of operating system commands; and
Provides consistent management across all platforms (iSeries, Unix, Windows 2000) as part of the Patrol enterprise-wide application and data management solution.
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