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Help/Systems Gets Its Splunk On with ‘InterMapper’ Launch
April 9, 2013 Alex Woodie
… Read moreIBM i systems management software developer Help/Systems last week unveiled InterMapper App for Splunk Enterprise, a network analytics and visualization tool designed to work with the data collection software from Splunk.
Splunk is an up-and-coming company based in San Francisco that develops software for searching, monitoring, and analyzing big data. The company’s main product, also called Splunk, helps organizations to capture, index, and correlate large amounts of data, and use it to develop graphs, reports, alerts, and dashboards, all from a Web-based interface.
Help/Systems’ product builds on the core data collection and manipulation capabilities of Splunk by delivering network
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Help/Systems Updates Job Scheduler GUI
April 12, 2011 Alex Woodie
… Read moreIBM i operators gain new insights into the state of their job scheduling environments with the latest release of Robot/SCHEDULE from Help/Systems. With version 11, the vendor has made several changes in the graphical Schedule Activity Monitor (SAM) that will enhance the capability of operators to oversee jobs running across IBM i, Windows, Linux, and Unix environments.
SAM is a graphical console that gives operators and administrators critical pieces of information about the state of Robot/SCHEDULE. In the summary screen, SAM displays all the past, present, and future jobs. On the left of SAM’s summary screen is a column
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What HelpSystems Is Up To Now
June 13, 2018 Alex Woodie
Thanks to a slew of acquisitions, HelpSystems has become one the largest independent software vendors in the IBM i marketplace, with tools spanning operations, security, backup, high availability, forms management, and capacity planning. A company representative recent sat down with IT Jungle at the recent COMMON PowerUp conference to talk about what’s new.
HelpSystems didn’t have a single major product launch at the COMMON conference in San Antonio, Texas, two weeks ago. Instead the company used the event to showcase multiple enhancements, and to talk about future products — such as a security information and event management (SIEM) solution and …
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Komodo Launches Hosted Splunk Service for IBM i
November 4, 2015 Alex Woodie
… Read moreIBM i shops that would like to start using Splunk to analyze their log data, but don’t want the hassle of setting Splunk up themselves, have a new option available to them. Last month Komodo Cloud announced that it’s now offering a cloud-based analytics service designed specifically using Splunk with IBM i-generated data.
Over the past decade, Splunk has developed a solid reputation for its capability to analyze big data generated by machines. Its NoSQL-based software does the hard work of capturing, indexing, and correlating vast amounts of semi-structured data generated by servers, applications, network devices, mobile devices, and practically
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Robot Job Scheduler Gets a Fresh New Look
July 15, 2015 Alex Woodie
… Read moreIn the world of Web design, a user interface built with a “responsive design” is equally at home on a smartphone as a Windows PC. HelpSystems took responsive design to heart with the latest update to Robot SCHEDULE, which now features a Web-based user interface that will give customers deeper insight into how jobs are running on the IBM i server.
With the new interface, Robot SCHEDULE users will be able to see IBM i jobs as they’re running, and interact with them through a mobile device. If a problem crops up with a job, the interface will notify them
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PowerTech Puts a Pretty Face on Network Security
October 7, 2014 Alex Woodie
… Read moreWhen it debuted in 1996, PowerTech‘s Network Security was the first commercial tool to lock down network exit points that posed security risks in OS/400. The product has proven its value in the field with thousands of deployments over the years. And with last week’s Network Security update, the product’s decidedly green look and feel was freshened up with a new Web-based UI.
Network Security is designed to prevent unauthorized access to IBM i resources over the network. Its main function is to monitor and control access to more than 30 exit points in the IBM i OS, including
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PowerTech Puts a Pretty Face on Network Security
October 7, 2014 Alex Woodie
… Read moreWhen it debuted in 1996, PowerTech‘s Network Security was the first commercial tool to lock down network exit points that posed security risks in OS/400. The product has proven its value in the field with thousands of deployments over the years. And with last week’s Network Security update, the product’s decidedly green look and feel was freshened up with a new Web-based UI.
Network Security is designed to prevent unauthorized access to IBM i resources over the network. Its main function is to monitor and control access to more than 30 exit points in the IBM i OS, including