IBM Z System Automation
The premier high availability and automation software solution for IBM Z® systems
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Overview:
IBM Z® System Automation is a NetView-based application that provides a single control point for a full range of system management functions. It plays a crucial role in supplying high-end automation solutions. IBM Z System Automation monitors, controls and automates an extensive range of system elements spanning your enterprise's hardware and software resources.
Advanced availability
Gain flexible, cluster-wide, policy-based self-healing availability of IBM Z systems and IBM Parallel Sysplex clusters.
Application disaster recovery
Get advanced application disaster recovery capabilities using IBM Geographically Dispersed Parallel Sysplex (GDPS).
Collaborative problem resolution
Improve cross-team collaboration and reduce problem resolution time by integrating ChatOps tool into Slack®, Microsoft® Teams™ or Mattermost®.
Goal-driven and enterprise-wide automation
Attain optimized application health and system performance with goal-driven automation. Get enterprise-wide automation and control of IBM Z systems hardware.
Open interfaces
System Automation can integrate with Red Hat® and Ansible®, provide Zowe™-conformant REST APIs and command line interfaces and stream messages to Apache Kafka.
Customizable user interface
Use the modern Service Management Unite dashboard user interface to manage and automate multiple Parallel Sysplex and Linux applications.
Features:
Maximize availability
Use high availability and automated operations support for IBM Z systems and IBM Parallel Sysplex clusters through flexible, cluster-wide, policy-based self-healing. Use IBM Z System Automation to start, stop and recover applications, systems and sysplexes. You can also automate applications across multiple sysplexes from a single console.
Minimize outages
Employ advanced application disaster recovery capabilities using IBM GDPS to manage remote copy configuration storage subsystems. You can also minimize outages with fast, reliable automatic recovery.
Integrates with Z ChatOps
ChatOps is a model that integrates people, tools and processes into a collaboration platform so that teams can efficiently communicate and easily manage their workflow. IBM Z ChatOps supports Z environments by including a chatbot that gives users access to information from Z systems management tools directly into Slack®, Microsoft® Teams™ or Mattermost®. Quickly notify the IT operations team about alerts from IBM Z applications.
Optimize performance
Optimize system health and performance by applying goal-driven automation to simplify operations, minimize costs and support business goals. Proactively managing availability through performance-driven automation can reduce automation implementation time and cost. Leveraging automated alert notification and escalation can also improve problem resolution.
Automate your enterprise
Monitor and control enterprise-wide processor hardware operations, including powering multiple target processors on and off, resetting them and performing all relevant system management tasks. Respond to messages, monitor status, detect and resolve wait states and manage your overall IBM Z system capacity.
Customize your dashboards
Manage and control automated applications running on multiple Parallel Sysplexes and related non-z/OS systems with the Service Management Unite Dashboard. Take advantage of modern, customizable dashboards to monitor and operate apps, giving you a single control point.
Quick and safe addition of automated resources
Automate newly deployed resources, like IMS or CICS regions, leveraging user-defined application templates and creating new resources dynamically whenever needed quickly and safely
Maximize integration in hybrid cloud applications
Take advantage of Zowe-conformant application programming interfaces (Restful API) that enable better integration with hybrid cloud applications.
Advanced sample policies
IBM Z System Automation provides pluggable, out-of-the-box sample policies for the z/OS base system, middleware products such as IMS, Db2, CICS, SAP and many more system products and infrastructure components. These sample policies are guided by best practices and designed for immediate high availability.
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Documentation:
Download the IBM Z System Automation (.PDF)
Pricing Notes:
- All Prices are Inclusive of GST
- Pricing and product availability subject to change without notice.
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