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Robot Monitor
Formerly from HelpSystems

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What is Robot Monitor?

Robot Monitor from Fortra (formerly HelpSystems) is presented as a comprehensive, in-depth monitoring solution available for Power Systems environments running IBM i alone or alongside VIOS, AIX, or Linux on Power.

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What is Robot Monitor?

Robot Monitor from Fortra (formerly HelpSystems) is presented as a comprehensive, in-depth monitoring solution available for Power Systems environments running IBM i alone or alongside VIOS, AIX, or Linux on Power.

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  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Product Details

What is Robot Monitor?

Robot Monitor: Performance and Application Monitoring Software

Robot Montitor is a monitoring solution for Power Systems environments running IBM i alone or alongside VIOS, AIX, or Linux on Power. By monitoring the performance of Power servers in real time—including system status, disk, network, availability, application data, and JDBC/ODBC activity— the solution helps users to proactively respond to issues before they impact user productivity or resources.

Customizable dashboards provide visibility into all metrics, elements, and status conditions so nothing is missed with just the central interface, helping to avoid downtime and optimize performance. Or when for when the dashboard is not being monitored, Robot Monitor can send out notification when things go wrong.

Users can display any combination of system metrics, status conditions, and workloads, and customize the view to display what’s important to any given or unique needs. If temporary storage or disk is escalating, Robot Monitor helps to reduce the time it takes to pinpoint the root cause by showing all the jobs consuming CPU, temporary storage, QTEMP, I/O, transactions, faulting rates, and other metrics, for faster problem resolution.

Its SQL-based monitoring technology provides a broad selection of monitoring options, offering the insights needed into business application data, such as the number of open problems, customer orders, or stock replenishment figures.

Additionally, Robot Monitor can be integrated with other Robot software solutions to provide more comprehensive IT operations management and infrastructure monitoring strategy.

Robot Monitor Integrations

  • IBM i
  • Robot Alert
  • HelpSystems Insite
  • Robot Scheduler
  • Robot Network
  • Robot Console

Robot Monitor Technical Details

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Mobile ApplicationNo
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Nitish Kumar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
Incentivized
Robot Monitor is used to monitoring the performance of your Power servers in real time—including system status, disk, network, availability, application data, and JDBC/ODBC activity—you and your team can proactively respond to issues before they impact user productivity or resource. We as a IBM i series team used it in our environment.
  • Highly customizable
  • visibility into all your metrics
  • Robot Monitor can send out notification when things go wrong.
  • It can have more customization
  • More SQL features can be added
  • Dashboard improvement
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.
  • Maximum Uptime.
  • real-time alerts.
  • With Robot Monitor, downtime doesn’t stand a chance.
  • To keep your business competitive
  • Monitor SQL queries to extract critical information from your most important applications and record historical trends for forecasting and analysis reports
  • Modern Dashboards
Nagios toll is not that much reliable for IBM i as Robot monitor. Nagios has less features as compare to Robot monitor.
Nagios doesn't have Dashboard feature.
5
They all support for the banking functionality as well as the logistics.
3
They should have a IBM i servers knowledge like how to setup the Robot monitor and It's functionality for IBM i servers.
  • Application Monitoring
  • Graphical Reports
  • Robot Monitor can send out notification when things go wrong.
  • central interface to avoid downtime and optimize performance
  • Highly customizable
  • Increase Availability for Critical Resources
  • Reply, Escalate, or Troubleshoot from Anywhere
  • track of system logs
  • Faster respond to MSGW
I found the Robot monitoring tool is more reliable for IBM i servers.
Yes
AJS
We are now using Advanced job scheduler in our environment for schedule many jobs to perform the operations on IBM i servers.
As the organization is changed now so they don't have Robot Monitor.
  • Price
  • Product Features
  • Product Usability
  • Product Reputation
Get real-time notifications of new messages and use two-way messaging to respond directly from any workstation or mobile device
I will mostly prefer to use Robot in my environment instead of using Nagios X1.
  • Third-party professional services
  • Don't know
Change management was a small part of the implementation and was well-handled
It has to be discuss in a CAB call before get a GO.
  • Time taking
NO.
Quiet active whenever there is any help required either on chat support or Contact.
Yes we purchased the premium support to get the more visibility and faster resolution from Help system support.
While checking on installation part they have given us the full guideline
It is very easy to use and have lots of feature which makes our environment risk free.
  • tracking the history
  • Monitor logs in the IFS
  • system track logs
  • configuration
  • dashboard view
Yes
It is easy to use and you can get the notification on your mobile.
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