VISUAL Control Center - Squeeze all the Power out of your iSeries, Windows and SNMP-based Servers

Squeeze all the Power out of your iSeries, Windows and SNMP-based Servers

Relax! Now you can make the most of your time and your servers without becoming a system performance guru.

VISUAL Control Center is a suite of integrated modules to accelerate and control your IT systems and applications, achieve better system response times, guarantee predictable service levels and automate system management tasks.

All of your iSeries and Windows servers, as well as any Linux, Unix and AIX systems supporting SNMP, can be simultaneously monitored with VISUAL Control Center to detect and prevent performance bottlenecks, analyze resources usage and trends, support users, and warn you immediately of any system problems so that you can keep all your applications running happily.

Accelerate your iSeries and Windows servers instantly

	Get faster response times, more transactions per hour By improving workload distribution among your systems and enabling self-configuration and optimization of your servers, you can dynamically reduce the number of page faults and bottlenecks in your IT infrastructure. Get the most out of your hardware investment.
	Get more out of your applications The more complex your system, the more VISUAL Control Center can help to improve performance. Give a tremendous boost to the service levels of your custom applications, Web servers, ERP and CRM packages, etc.

Be in control

	Give high priority to your critical business services VISUAL Control Center allows you to control your systems so that they behave according to your business needs. Manage users, subsystems, jobs, processes and programs, so that memory and CPU power is where your business needs it, when it needs it.
	Know what is going on Detect heavy users, abusive programs and memory leaks. Monitor the activity of your systems and end-users in real time or historically.

Greatly improve user satisfaction

Avoid complaints; provide enhanced support
Forget about user complaints. VISUAL Control Center will put you on top of any iSeries or Windows performance problem, on any interactive or batch job/process, running on local or remote servers.

Get more predictable performance

Adapt instantly to changing workloads
The workload of your systems changes constantly. VISUAL Control Center makes iSeries/Windows performance more predictable, so that your business never suffers. Non-urgent processes that degrade global performance are prevented from abusing system resources, stabilising response times even when running end-of-month tasks.

Free yourself from tuning tasks

No performance expertise required!
VISUAL Control Center is an automatic solution based on Service Level Management best practices. It requires no specialist performance tuning knowledge to use, it requires no dedicated supervision, and it consumes very little system resources. Simply install VISUAL Control Center and forget about performance problems. Let the predefined thresholds and alerts do the hard work, and just fine-tune them to suit your needs.

Unique programming tools to align SLM with your business objectives
With the embedded ALEV logical expression editor, you can easily develop scripts and set multiple variables, specifying your own requirements, thresholds and alert conditions.

Achieve High Software Availability

Avoid expensive downtime
By using VISUAL Control Center you can:

Increase the availability, predictability and continuity of your business services.
Give your users optimum response times when using critical applications, even at peak hours.
Solve any potential problem (even at the application level) before it affects your business operations.
Provide immediate support to local and remote users at any time, from anywhere in the world

Justify hardware upgrades

Show convincing statistics to management
VISUAL Control Center's performance statistic analysis provides solid, easy to understand information about system performance, so that you can detect performance trends and anticipate future needs. Hardware upgrades can be presented and justified to management using attractive charts, so you can get the approval before you need the capacity.

Monitor performance of local and remote servers

	Instant reaction to potential system problems Collect and monitor real time performance data from any number of local and remote iSeries, Windows, Linux, UNIX and AIX servers using any Windows PC. By customizing alarm settings, you can be alerted (or schedule automated responses) to any potential problems before they become critical.
	Analyze historical information VISUAL Control Center allows you to graphically analyze historical performance information from any PC, providing 2D and 3D color performance reports. Identify performance trends and bottlenecks and correlate to real causes.