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What’s New with Robot?A Review of What’s New and What’s Coming in the Robot Product Line

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Chuck LosinskiDirector of Automation Technology

HelpSystems

Broadcasting live from Eden Prairie, Minnesota USA

Tom HuntingtonExecutive Vice President of Technical

SolutionsHelpSystems

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Backup and Recovery

Workload Automation

Report Management

Partition PerformanceAutomated Monitoring

and Notification

What’s New with Robot

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Agenda

• Robot Scheduling Solutions Update

• Robot Monitoring Solutions Update

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Robot SCHEDULERobot SCHEDULE EnterpriseRobot ALERTRobot NETWORKRobot REPLAYSAP and E1 Interfaces

Robot CONSOLERobot NETWORKRobot ALERT

Robot SAVERobot NETWORKRobot ALERT

Robot REPORTS Robot TRANSFORM

Robot ALERT

Robot SPACERobot NETWORK

Robot ALERTRobot AUTOTUNE

Robot LPARAutomated Job

Scheduling Solutions

Message Mgmt.Solutions

Performance Mgmt.Solutions

Report Mgmt.Solutions

Backup &Recovery Solutions

Robot Automation for IBM i

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Automated Job Scheduling

Batch

Interactive

E1 and SAP Interfaces

Robot REPLAY

Robot SCHEDULE

SCHEDULE Enterprise FTP

http://www.cooperators.ca/

http://www.cooperators.ca/

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DeliveredRobot SCHEDULE and Robot SCHEDULE Enterprise

October 2015Robot SCHEDULE Enterprise support of Windows ClusterSupport of DNS names in agents

July 2015Robot SCHEDULE BrowserWeb browser

Critical jobsDashboardActive job flow diagram

April 2015 12.04Robot SCHEDULE can be installed in an IASPRobot SCHEDULE can be installed into a different library name other than ROBOTLIB

June 2014File monitoring eventRefresh of graphical interfaceUnused Jobs ReportDate OPAL in forecasting

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Past Recent Past Present

Evolution

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Consolidated Operations Console

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Business Window

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Live Job Flow Diagram

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Event Monitors for Library of IFS

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Defined to Reactive Jobs

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Event Monitor Log

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Install into an IASP

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Install into and IASP

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Install into an IASP

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INSERT CLUSTER SCREEN CAPTURE

HERE

MS SQL Server Cluster

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Skybot to Robot Interface

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Web UserInterface

Enterprise Scheduling

Data

With Robot SCHEDULE Enterprise

Scheduling Options

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Live Demos

File monitorWeb interfaceRobot IASPEnterprise cluster 12

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Agenda

Robot Scheduling Solutions Update

Robot Monitoring Solutions Update

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Resources:Devices,subsystems,jobs, job queues,CPU, HTTP,MQSeries

Logs:QAUDJRNFTPQHST

MessageQueues:QSYSOPR…

Robot CONSOLERobot ALERT

Two-WaySMTP/POP3, SNMP, SMS

Automate or Escalate

Message Center

Application Logs:WebSphereSAPDominoJava

Automated Message, Resource, and Application Log Monitoring

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DeliveredRobot CONSOLE

September 2015 New Version 6.03• TCP/IP Port (PORT) resource monitor type improvements:

» Specify whether the port is LOCAL or REMOTE» List of expected statuses changed: ACTIVE (replaces USED), CLOSED,

ESTABLISH, IDLEMINS, INACTIVE (replaces OPEN), LISTEN, and WAIT– SNMP trap message length increased from 256 to 1024 characters

February 2015 – NEW VERSION 6• Application monitoring

» IFS log monitoring• Data queue, writer, and job thread monitoring• MQSeries channel monitors• Improved Robot ALERT interface• GUI refresh

April 2014• All job monitor for high CPU• Job detail monitoring• Continue to notify after failure• Robot ALERT email over SSL

July 2013• Robot CONSOLE can be installed in IASP and/or SYSBASE

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Robot CONSOLEAutomated Resource Monitors

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Robot CONSOLEApplication Log Monitoring

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DeliveredPort Monitoring

INSERT PORT MONITOR

SCREEN CAPTURE HERE

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MessageQueues

Resources:Subsystems, jobs, jobq

Logs:QAUDJRNFTPQHST

Robot NETWORKConsolidated View

Robot CONSOLE + Robot

NETWORKon each partition

Robot ALERTTwo-Way

SMTP/POP3

SNMP TrapsSend to other

enterprise tools

PerformanceMetrics

Consolidated Monitoringand Scheduling

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DeliveredRobot NETWORK 11

January 2016• Robot NETWORK Node enabled to work in an IASP to interface with Robot

SCHEDULEOctober 2015

• Web user interface now supports all features of the GUI• Drill down into performance data from dashboards in WUI

April 2014• Web user interface with responsive design for iPad, Android, and a browser• Configurable dashboards

November 2013Ability to use short name or fully-qualified name when configuring host or node rather than IP addressPerformance metrics – added an additional disk collection interval option and ability to turn off specific categories

November 2012Performance threshold metrics show average and high values for assistance in setting up thresholdsNew User Exit Program shipped with product for building on SNMP escalation

June 2012 – Version 11 shipped January 2012Performance metric collection and dashboard

CPU, DASD, Disk Busy, seize locks, etc.Exception thresholds

Product Metrics Report (consolidated Good Morning Report)

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Performance Graphs

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Drill Down

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Drill Down

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Drill Down

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Drill Down


InterMapper suite of network monitoring, mapping and alerting software is comprised of 3 products which work together seamlessly:

InterMapper ● InterMapper Flows ● InterMapper RemoteAccess

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• 200+ built-in probes maximize the amount of real-time information

• Build your own • SNMP traffic• Servers

– web, mail, file, printers, etc.• Applications

Built-in and Custom SNMP Probes

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Available Across Multiple Brands

Improved install process for IBM i brands PowerTech, Robot, and SEQUELWeb user interface for deploymentInstalls, conversionBatch installsCentralized licensing

Deployment Manager

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Robot SCHEDULE• Audit log filtering• Bulk import/export job changes

Robot SCHEDULE Enterprise• PowerHA/IASP support• Web services agent

Robot Roadmap

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Robot Roadmap

Robot Monitor 14.0• UI refresh• Robot integrations• VIOS monitoring• Migration of CCSS QSystem Monitor to Robot product line

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What IT Problems Do We Solve?

• Enterprise Scheduling and Business Process Automation– IBM i, AIX, Unix, Linux, Windows

• Monitoring (IBM i, Linux, AIX, Windows)• Security and Compliance (IBM i, AIX, Linux)• BI and Data Warehouse (IBM i)

– Modernize your data access• Document Life Cycle Management

– Electronic forms, signature, work flow, distribution• Network Monitoring• Backup and Recovery (IBM i)• SLA Issues

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Summary and Questions

• We want your feedback– Talk to your sales person– Log requests for product enhancements– User conference June 2016 in Minneapolis, Minnesota– Every support call is logged

• Ask us for help– Product line overview for management and staff– Professional services for Robot Health Check

Website: www.helpsystems.com

Telephone: 800-328-1000 sales+1 952-933-0609 support

Presenters: [email protected]+1 952-563-1606

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Contact Information

Thank you for attending!

Tom Huntington

Chuck Losinski

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