Work with Management Central

After Management Central has been set up, you can use it to streamline your server administration tasks.

• iSeries Navigator monitors
  Monitors display current information about the performance of your systems. Additionally, you can use them to carry out predefined actions when a specific event occurs. You can use the system, message, job, file, and B2B transaction monitors to display and monitor information about your systems. The system and job monitors use the performance data collected by Collection Services.
• Work with inventory
  Use iSeries™ Navigator inventory functions to collect and manage various inventories on a regular basis and to store the data on the iSeries™ server that you selected as your central system.
• Run commands with Management Central
  iSeries™ Navigator enables you to define an action or a task and then perform that action or task on multiple endpoint systems or system groups. These are the same commands that you normally run using the character-based interface.
• Package and send objects with Management Central
  A bulk data transfer is the process of sending packages, fixes, PDFs and so on, from a source system to a target system in a single transfer. This topic discusses package definitions, what happens when a package is sent, and how to troubleshoot a failed transfer.
• Distribute fixes to multiple servers with iSeries Navigator
  If you have a network of iSeries™ servers that you want to keep at the same fix level, find out how simple your servers are to manage when you use the Compare and Update wizard. Find out how to install your fixes on remote systems with iSeries™ Navigator.
• Manage users and groups with Management Central
  iSeries™ Navigator can help you as a system administrator to keep track of the users, groups, and their level of privileges on one or more endpoint systems.
• Share with other users in Management Central
  Sharing saves you time, makes system administration easier, and reduces the number of redundant tasks you need to do. As of V5R4, you can now share system monitors and system events.
• Synchronize date and time values
  Management Central gives you a convenient way to synchronize date and time values across your network.
• Synchronize functions
  You can synchronize the configuration of key functions, such as EIM and Kerberos, across a group of endpoint systems.
• Schedule tasks or jobs with Management Central scheduler
  iSeries™ Navigator provides two different tools you can use to schedule tasks or jobs: an integrated scheduler (the Management Central scheduler) and the Advanced Job Scheduler.
• Advanced Job Scheduler
  The Advanced Job Scheduler licensed program (5722-JS1) is a robust scheduler that allows unattended job processing 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. This scheduling tool provides more calendar features and offers greater control over scheduled events than the Management Central scheduler. You can also view job completion history and manage notification of a job's status.