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Press Release |
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| Announcing Support for Windows® |
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ACO
PAGER centralizes Windows® system, application, and security events on your iSeries® and performs automation and notification functions. |
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Immediate Release |
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NORTHWEST
INDIANA/CHICAGOLAND, June 1999--DDL Systems, Inc. announces support for
Windows®. Now,
our iSeries® Systems Management software can monitor
Windows® event logs that allows
automation of performance, network, system, application, security events and more. With
the industry focus on client server and e-business, the Windows®
operating system has quickly become another
mission-critical component of your datacenter. Managing the complexities of these
heterogeneous computer systems are becoming increasingly important to the success of your
business. |
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Windows® event logs
are very similar to the system operator message queue on the iSeries®. They contain
important information regarding the health and status of your servers. Specifically,
Windows® categorizes the events into three different log files: |
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Application logs. |
• System logs. |
• Security logs. |
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Each log file
contains information similar to that contained within a typical message on the
iSeries
(e.g. system name, user, message id, message type, date/time stamp, and message text). You
create a new server message queue on the iSeries® to contain the Windows® event messages and
start an ACOPAGER Message Monitor for this new message queue.
Windows® event log messages
are routed to the server message queue and the ACOPAGER Message Monitors perform
automation activities just like any other monitored message.You can specify action sets
for each Windows® server message queue to send pager, e-mail, break messages, and run commands
(or action scripts)
based on the specific (or generic) characteristics of each event. |
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Click here
(existing customers only) to view online the simple instructions for setting up ACO
PAGER and Windows® to use the above features. This page requires a user id and
password. |
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Hardware Requirements |
Requires one standard iSeries V.24 SDLC communications line and one ECS (or
Hayes® compatible) modem (or a properly configured SMTP e-mail connection to the
Internet). Works with all alphanumeric and two-way pagers, properly equipped
cellular phones, smartphones, pda's, palmtops, and all numeric pagers. |
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Software Requirements |
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ACO PAGER, ACO NET, ACO ESI,
and ACO CLIENT execute on iSeries® systems (all models) running OS/400 Version 5 Release
2 (or higher). ACO Client™ requires WebSphere® Application Server v5.0 (or higher), WebSphere® Application Server - Express,
or any Java 1.3 compliant web application server like Apache. ACO ESI™
requires an enterprise system application like IBM Tivoli® or BMC Patrol Enterprise
Manager®. Your Enterprise System may require the use of WebSphere®
MQ middleware (V5.1 or higher). This software is available from IBM at an additional fee and is
not
included in the purchase of the ACO ESI software product. ACO ESI™
optionally monitors your network connected Windows servers using a Windows
compliant software agent. This software is available (at a nominal fee) from
one of our business partners. |
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Contact a sales representative at
(866) 559-0800 option 1 or send
e-mail to
sales@ddlsystems.com for more information. |
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| Windows® is a registered
trademark of Microsoft Corporation. |
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