Fortra Robot Monitor vs. Spotlight

Instantly drill down to show all the jobs consuming CPU, temporary storage, QTEMP, I/O, transactions, faulting rates, and other metrics, for faster problem resolution.

Incentivized

Spotlight is great when you need a tool to give a quick look at a SQL server as a whole. It gives you the ability to see a lot of things, which can be vital in diagnosing problems or identifying stressors. Less great is the open-end of some of the diagnoses it makes, and things it identifies as "problems" (unless you love users coming to you and saying something like "Spotlight says there's a problem with our page latch!!!").

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• Auto reply to the MSGW.
• Robot network GUI is place to monitor all the systems at one place.
• Based the MSG ID/JOBS, the alerts are set up to notify the concerned person/team.

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• I love the main page that provides a color code list of all the servers so I know very quickly where to focus my attention first.
• I love how easy it is to configure new notifications.
• I love how easy it is to configure a new server to monitor.

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• It can have more customization
• More SQL features can be added
• Dashboard improvement

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• Have not found any issues at this point.

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I found the Robot monitoring tool is more reliable for IBM i servers.

Incentivized

It is very easy to use and have lots of feature which makes our environment risk free.

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Quiet active whenever there is any help required either on chat support or Contact.

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Though our support needs have been minimal, we have gotten good responses when we have needed it.

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It's a best tool/product in the market and easy to use. It serves our purpose and saves a lot time of the resource from the manual task. The main and most important is, its support team. One of the best support team I have ever seen. Their dedicated product engineer have a good knowledge over the product and helps immediately.

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I think Dell is better with its dashboard and ease of use, but SQL Sentry is better at customization. We used Spotlight at my previous company, and SQLSentry at my current company.

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• Can monitor the systems in a central view.
• It's easy to maintain with better security to the robo commands.
• Cost effectiveness.

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• We have not encountered any issues and continue to keep Spotlight's version current.
• Very simple to set up and add databases. The only thing that has to happen to the database is that a user ID needs to exist.

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