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Achieve fail-safe control of your IBM i core

applications, processes and systems and reduce the

costs of IT through automation

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Powerful Technology. Proven Expertise.

Systems Operations Suite offers powerful and highly

functional automation features for even tighter

control of mission-critical business applications and

processes. This solution provides total peace of mind

that your IBM i is running at its full potential and

maximizing system uptime for your business.

Systems Operations Suite not only notifies you of potential problems, it also automates the correction process and logs its actions. So should a server, job, subsystem, critical line, device or other resource become unavailable, the software can automatically initiate the required response. This eliminates repetitions of the same issues, avoiding late night support calls, significantly reducing manual tasks and troubleshooting without the need for extra staff.

Be in control of your

IBM i environment with

Systems Operations Suite

‘Teach’ Systems Operations Suite how to respond

to situations, even complex ones and it will

automatically and precisely emulate the actions

of a very experienced IT operator or systems

administrator.

Business Application Monitoring

Automatic monitoring, using specialist templates, allows critical business applications to be effectively managed and controlled. Clients who use applications like Lawson M3 (Movex), SAP, JD Edwards, Misys Equation, Midas Plus, Infor and well-known High Availability solutions can all benefit from Halcyon’s software. Further integration with other Halcyon specialist tools allow the monitoring of any web browser-based applications.

Performance Monitoring

Ensure critical subsystems remain active and interactive response times are maintained. Use Systems Operations Suite to alert you to any performance issues based upon customizable system thresholds. Monitor memory and CPU activity both overall and on an individual job basis.

Real-time Security Alerting and Auditing

Security event management can be costly if you only perform manual checks. Systems Operations Suite enables you to proactively monitor the i5/OS system audit journal, QAUDJRN, for security related events. Demonstrate to auditors, the ability to be alerted in real-time (by email, SMS, visible or audible alert), whenever an entry is written to the journal.

Open Source and Help Desk Systems

Halcyon’s solutions interface with recognized open source systems such as Security Information Event Managers (SIEM), Log Amalgamators, IBM Tivoli, HP Openview, CA Unicenter, BMC Patrol and any Syslog or SNMP compliant system.

The software also interfaces with both in-house and proprietary Help Desk systems.

Enterprise Management & Mobility

Halcyon Enterprise Console, included with the software, gives full visibility of messages and alerts generated by IBM i®, AIX®, Windows® and Linux® servers providing a centralized dashboard view of your entire enterprise.

A ‘smart App’, free to Halcyon customers, means you can view the status of your managed servers applications and SNMP devices by having a portable view of your Enterprise on your iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch or Android device.

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We would estimate an improvement

between 60 and 80% in efficiency and

a clear improvement in service delivery

quality. Halcyon are one of the best

suppliers we have dealt with.

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How Systems Operations Suite can

solve your business challenges

In addition to handling IBM i messages, job queues, output queues and devices for issues or threshold breaches, Systems Operations Suite also monitors for, and notifies you of, scheduled events that have not run as planned. Proactively monitor key business applications, FTP activity, the security audit journal and system events. It also supports the regular scheduling of essential house-keeping tasks and system saves. Systems Operations Suite can overcome your business and operational challenges by:

• Alerting systems operators to an impending business affecting issue, such as suspension of disk mirroring or imminent disk failure

• Notifying, in real-time, that a time-critical job has not yet finished

• Monitoring multiple systems, on multiple platforms without the need for additional staff

• Ensuring maximum availability and continuous operation of critical IT systems

• Effectively managing and controlling critical business applications such as Lawson M3 (Movex), SAP, JD Edwards, Misys Equation, Midas Plus and Infor as well as High Availability solutions

• Interfacing with integral calendars so that scheduled events and Restricted Tasks can run in an unattended environment

• Providing real-time auditing and security alerts

• Scheduling event monitors and alert notification so that incomplete or failed processes replicate your current working patterns and escalation policies

• Improving business process visibility

• Reducing costs caused by late night support calls because of incomplete or failed processes

What our customers say about

Systems Operations Suite:

“The iSeries and M3 systems are our most critical, which

is precisely why when it came to selecting a systems

monitoring solution, Halcyon’s Systems Operations Suite

was the logical, and only, choice. Would I recommend

Halcyon Systems Operations Suite to any other iSeries

system administrator? Without reservation!”

iSeries System Administrator, Quiksilver

“Aside from being vastly better technology, it beat the

others hands down when it came to price.”

IT Manager, Sanity

“As to the company, Halcyon have been very reactive and

helpful. Their Technical Support team are knowledgeable

and responsive, quickly resolving any issues. Halcyon have

shown themselves to be a flexible organization, having

enhanced their products to interface with the leading

edge Enterprise Management Tools that we use.”

Senior Manager, CapGemini

“Halcyon is a good company to work with. They worked

closely with us to make sure that the technology works

correctly and they have been very responsive to our needs.

Choosing the Halcyon product was an easy decision for

us. We knew that it would provide us with the flexibility

we needed to roll out new technologies and service our

customers.”

Services Director, Meridian IT Inc.

Centralized Dashboard view

The Halcyon Enterprise Console is a centralized GUI, providing a real-time focal point for all your cross-platform monitoring, allowing you to view and respond directly to, messages and alerts generated by IBM i®, AIX®, Windows® and Linux® servers. It can also manage alerts from other key agent-less hardware such as hubs, routers and switches. Replies can be given to messages and alerts closed from the central console while color-coded options help identify different servers and/ or different types of alerts. Comprehensive filters can escalate actions, change severity and forward alerts.

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Business Benefits

Graphical User Interface (GUI)

Provides a high level management view and business process visibility. Can be used to define and assign an action or number of actions when a logged event produces a message.

Business application monitoring templates

Automatic monitoring of critical business applications using specialist templates to improve process visibility, give you greater operational efficiencies and responsiveness. Integrate into other Halcyon specialist tools to monitor any web-based applications.

Business continuity

Create and replicate your unique master environment and automatically highlight events that occur during the back-up process.

Consolidate existing tools

Integrate Systems Operations Suite into your own internal systems and have a dashboard view of your entire infrastructure - anytime, anywhere, anyplace.

Cost reduction

Significantly reduce costs by:

• Reducing late night support calls caused by incomplete or failed processes

• Scheduling events and resources to run in a completely unattended environment

Powerful monitoring and automation techniques

Automate the monitoring of virtually any component, job, subsystem or device on your IBM i by automating key repetitive tasks and assigning ‘message rules ’ to execute an action or procedure.

Virtualization management

Install more than one version of Systems Operations Suite on a single platform. You can even install the software and test the configuration and PTFs without affecting your live environment.

More efficient scheduling of events

Avoid unplanned outages by removing points of failure and scheduling essential system backups and housekeeping tasks, to reflect your business processes and escalation policies, in a completely unattended environment.

Easy to install

Systems Operations Suite comes with remote installation and intelligent templates making installation possible within minutes.

Flexibility

• Use of calendars allows increased flexibility in scheduling event monitoring to reflect your organization’s working patterns

• Intelligent templates enable you to respond to a specific event or alert to reflect your organization’s processes. For example, call a particular program or email a particular person

Security compliance

Enhanced Audit trail, security journaling and access control. Systems Operations Suite enables you to restrict options to particular user(s) or organization(s).

Smart automation using command scripts

Automate and replicate how your organization responds to a given situation.

Reporting tool

Access comprehensive reporting capabilities including the audit journal.

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Remote management of your servers and messages

Halcyon’s Enterprise Console, included free of charge with Systems Operations Suite, can also be used remotely on your Apple® or Android® smartphone or tablet device.

Free ‘Apps’, developed by Halcyon, allow you the freedom of being able to remotely monitor and respond to messages and alerts received from your servers and devices across your organization’s network.

Use the Enterprise Console ‘App’ to view the current status of your entire network, even when you are not at your desk. Follow up any messages received on the Console by sending an email, SMS text or forwarding into an integrated helpdesk application.

Use the Archive Viewer option to see what has happened with any messages or alerts received while you were off-line or unavailable, so you can keep fully informed at any time and from any location.

Halcyon doesn’t just monitor for

failure in your IT environment -

we actively prevent it

Systems Operations Suite

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Enterprise Console - dashboard

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IBM i, i5/OS Monitoring

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Performance Monitoring

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SLA Reporting

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Business Application Templates

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✔ PCI, SOX, JSOX, ISO Compliance

Business Application

Templates

Use Halcyon’s templates to monitor all of your critical business applications running across a multi-platform environment.

Halcyon templates are designed to provide the same level of monitoring across a number of similar devices by applying a set of user-defined filters with a single click. This greatly reduces set-up time and ensures all systems are covered by at least a basic level of monitoring. Should you need to make a system-wide change at a later date, a single update covers all systems using the template. The following applications can be monitored using templates:

• Infor® (M3®, XA®, System 21 Aurora® etc.)

• Oracle JD Edwards®

• SAP®

• Misys® Equation & Midas Plus

• In-house written applications

• High Availability Software

Monitor and manage your environment on-the-go

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About Halcyon Software

Halcyon Software is a global leader in multi-platform systems management solutions that reduce the complexity and cost of monitoring critical business systems, core applications and processes. Halcyon helps companies to prevent business disruption, increase the efficiency of IT services and save costs. In most cases, Halcyon’s solutions increase IT efficiency by 30 – 40 percent, delivering significant savings and a rapid return on investment – often in less than six months.

Halcyon achieves this in three ways:

Monitoring: Halcyon’s monitoring software keeps a vigilant watch on the most critical IT systems and core applications on which business depends. IT administrators receive early warnings of any potential problems or ‘bottlenecks’ before they affect the organization.

Automating: Halcyon enables IT teams to set up ‘self–corrective actions’ to issues or problems to ensure that they never impact the business again. IT teams can also automate regular tasks, checks or jobs which would normally be undertaken manually. This frees up valuable resources, saves costs and helps to eliminate human error.

Reporting: Halcyon’s cloud-based reporting solution proves to management that the IT team is achieving the service levels demanded by the business or flags any issues so they can be quickly resolved.

Halcyon’s products support IBM Power Systems, including IBM i, AIX, Linux and Windows platforms. With regional offices in the United States, UK and Australia, Halcyon also has a network of partners and distributors supporting territories world-wide.

For further information visit www.halcyonsoftware.com

We faced a choice in growing our business - either increase our

personnel or use a specialist tool. We decided to find a tool. Halcyon

was the best solution for automation of the operations, our team

found it easy to use and we received excellent support during the

implementation phase. We would estimate an improvement of between

60 and 80% in efficiency and a clear improvement in service delivery

quality. In addition to the product itself, which is brilliant, we have a very

good working relationship with Halcyon. They are actually one of the

best suppliers we have dealt with.

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There are 4 levels of monitoring and automation solutions for your IBM i environment. Systems Operations Suite is Level 2. Compare other products in the Halcyon range below:

For more information regarding our other product suites as shown above, or for a

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• Only pay for what you use

Our IBM i software is priced per ‘active core’ meaning that you only pay for the processors you are currently using.

• Transparent pricing

If you need to switch on another core or upgrade your hardware in the future you have clarity on costs. The more

cores you utilize on your system the greater the discount.

• No maintenance hikes

We never impose significant maintenance increases on our customers. If you want total peace of mind and fixed

prices ask about our long term contract options.

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