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    Robot Monitor

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/ARobot 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.N/A
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    Robot Monitor
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    Robot Monitor
    Free Trial
    No
    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee
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    Robot Monitor
    Considered Both Products
    Fortra
    Chose Robot Monitor
    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.
    Incentivized
    Chose Robot Monitor
    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 …
    Incentivized
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    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    User Ratings
    Robot Monitor
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Robot Monitor
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Fortra
    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.
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    Pros
    Fortra
    • 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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    Cons
    Fortra
    • It can have more customization
    • More SQL features can be added
    • Dashboard improvement
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Fortra
    I found the Robot monitoring tool is more reliable for IBM i servers.
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    Usability
    Fortra
    It is very easy to use and have lots of feature which makes our environment risk free.
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    Support Rating
    Fortra
    Quiet active whenever there is any help required either on chat support or Contact.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Fortra
    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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    Return on Investment
    Fortra
    • 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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