Define environments to customise processing and control resource usage

Move shared hardware resources (such as tape drives) dynamically or on a schedule

Monitor, track, and analyze performance using displays, graphs, and reports

Create a secure, managed, automated, LPAR system

The good news: you’ve finished partitioning your iSeries machine and you finally have things the way you want them. Your plan is to control your processing and allocate resources. The bad news: you don’t have any good way to track resource usage, determine what needs adjusting where, or to move resources quickly. The best news: Robot/LPAR, the performance monitoring and adjustment software for partitioned (LPAR) iSeries systems from Help/ Systems. Robot/LPAR monitors the performance of your LPAR systems and keeps them running smoothly.

Create custom environments to control processing
Robot/LPAR offers the unique concept of processing environments for specialised LPAR control. You create environments by specifying different performance factors and thresholds for each partition. For example, you could create a Day environment for your daily processing, a Night environment for your nightly processing, and a Weekend environment for your weekend processing. Then, you use a simple command to activate an environment and set the resource and processing priorities for each partition in the environment.

Assume that you’ve created one partition for production and another for sales. When the Day environment is active, you can give your sales partition greater access to system resources than your production partition. When the Night environment is active, your production partition has priority for those resources. Quite simple, but the possibilities are endless.

Manage your LPAR system at a glance
Robot/LPAR lets you control your iSeries LPAR system from a PC using the Robot/LPAR Explorer, its easy-to-use PC interface. You can display, track, graph, and report on your entire system performance. The Robot/LPAR Explorer displays your system resources in a visual tree at whatever level of detail you need. See the properties of your systems, your partitions—even your devices—quickly.

Analyze LPAR performance easily
Use Robot/LPAR for performance monitoring and adjustment. Robot/LPAR monitors each partition, collecting performance statistics. Then, use Robot/LPAR to display and graph these statistics to analyze and report on your system’s performance. With this type of information at your fingertips, it’s easy to spot problems and build a case for any system changes you need to make.

Easy setup plus security
Robot/LPAR is easy to set up, administer, and secure. Using the Robot/LPAR Explorer you can specify threshold events and their responses, what to track, how often to monitor partitions, and the level of security for each Robot/LPAR user. The Robot/LPAR security levels—User, Operator, and Administrator—determine who can activate environments, who can move resources, and who can adjust performance or make other system changes.

Respond to potential problems quickly
Robot/LPAR lets you define event thresholds by setting minimum and maximum performance factors. If a partition nears a threshold, it triggers an event that you can respond to automatically. For example, if a partition is reaching its maximum for processor power, you can use Robot/LPAR to notify the correct personnel to step in and fix the problem before it gets bigger. And, if hardware resources are needed, you can use Robot/LPAR to move devices between partitions.

Great product integration means total resource management
Robot/LPAR works great with the other Help/Systems’ products to let you expand your LPAR management possibilities. Use Robot/ LPAR with Robot/SCHEDULE, the job scheduling and batch management software, to schedule and start jobs in response to resource needs. Robot/SCHEDULE can start a job, or group of jobs, based on a new environment, a threshold event, or in response to other system conditions. You can even schedule environment activation.

Robot/LPAR works with Robot/AUTOTUNE, the iSeries performance monitoring and tuning package, to tune your partition memory management. After Robot/LPAR allocates memory to a partition, Robot/AUTOTUNE allocates the memory within the partition to the subsystems and memory pools that need it. Robot/LPAR and Robot/AUTOTUNE work together to guarantee that your LPAR memory resources are working exactly where they are needed for maximum efficiency.

Robot/LPAR uses Robot/ALERT for fast problem notification and resolution. Robot/ALERT can send pager or e-mail messages whenever there is a problem that needs to be acknowledged or addressed.

Robot/LPAR works with Robot/NETWORK, the FREE network management solution, to tie everything together. Robot/NETWORK lets you manage and control your entire LPAR system from a single location.

Get your LPAR system under control
Managing iSeries LPAR resources is a big job. It’s time for Robot/LPAR to help you get your LPAR system under control. Contact Us to order a FREE Information Kit, a FREE 30-day product trial, or just to learn more about Robot/LPAR. Or, request your  Information kit online. It’s time to see what Robot/LPAR can do for you!