Re: Information Wanted

[PaulMmn <PaulMmn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jon Paris asked (in part):

>A colleague in Australia is currently involved in a battle against an NT
>solution.

>2) Customer wants to know about sites running AS/400 in a lights-out
>operation.
>Again, come someone help me with
>some big customer names? Also, what kinds of tools are being used to manage
>this environment (either IBM or
>third party)


We don't run in lights out (we tried, but found our environment changes too
fast!).  But we use some products that would be very useful:

        The ROBOT family of products:

UPS:  Monitors your UPS and automatically shuts down before the batteries die.

CONSOLE:  Monitors message queues you designate (ie QSYSOPR) and responds
to certain messages as you have instructed.

ALERT:  Links to CONSOLE and sends pager messages to you.

ROBOT:  A job scheduler.  Allows job descriptions, queues, parameters,
times, dates, and other assorted parameters.

AUTOTUNE:  Monitors your system and automatically tunes it a whole lot
better than you can do it yourself (ducking).  We like it.  And even if you
can tune it better yourself, do you -really- want to keep monitoring your
system all day long?  Or let a program do the dirty work??

We've used these products for several years and are very happy with them.


--Paul E Musselman
PaulMmn@ix.netcom.com


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