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Robot Monitor

Score8.5 out of 10

4 Reviews and Ratings

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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Who Buys & Uses Fortra Robot Monitor

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Engineering

33.3%

Robot Monitor Reviews

What users are saying about Robot Monitor.
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Robot Monitor with Amazing features.

Incentivized
Nitish KumarView profile
Consultant in Information Technology at Ensono (10,001+ employees)

Pros

  • Highly customizable
  • visibility into all your metrics
  • Robot Monitor can send out notification when things go wrong.

Cons

  • It can have more customization
  • More SQL features can be added
  • Dashboard improvement

Most Important Features

  • Maximum Uptime.
  • real-time alerts.
  • With Robot Monitor, downtime doesn’t stand a chance.

Return on Investment

  • 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

Alternatives Considered

Nagios XI

Other Software Used

Nagios XI, IBM i, Syncsort Assure MIMIX

Usability

HelpSystems Robot Monitor - The perfect monitoring tool

Incentivized
Srikanth DoddapaneniView profile
Lead Consultant in Information Technology at Megamax Services Pvt. Ltd. (An ISO 9001:2015 Certified Company) (51-200 employees)

Pros

  • 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.

Cons

  • Need to add more options of monitoring the file levels.
  • Number of members on a physical file and it should alert when it reaches threshold value as we defined.
  • Not much and it's perfect tool to automate the environment.

Return on Investment

  • Can monitor the systems in a central view.
  • It's easy to maintain with better security to the robo commands.
  • Cost effectiveness.

Alternatives Considered

HelpSystems Performance Navigator

Other Software Used

HelpSystems Performance Navigator, HelpSystems Robot HA, HelpSystems Webdocs