See an overview of the capabilities that iSeries™ Navigator provides, which are covered in the Information Center.
iSeries Navigator provides a powerful suite of functions to handle your system administration tasks. Once you have installed iSeries Navigator, use the online help for step-by-step instructions for all the individual tasks that you can do "the GUI way" in iSeries Navigator. In the main iSeries Navigator window, just click
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| iSeries Navigator concepts | |
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| Manage multiple systems | The Management Central technology, which is an integral part of iSeries Navigator, allows you to manage tasks across one or more servers simultaneously. Simplify your systems management with task scheduling, real-time performance monitoring, managing fixes (or PTFs), distributing objects, managing users and groups, running commands from a central system, and much much more. |
| Manage logical partitions | Use iSeries Navigator to access your logical partition information, change logical partition configuration, manage security, and change processing resources without requiring a system restart. On an iSeries server, you can use iSeries Navigator, DST, and SST to manage your logical partitions. If you are working with partitions on IBM® Systems and eServer™ hardware, or models such as 5xx, see Partitioning the server for more information. |
| Manage your hardware | Use iSeries Navigator to configure, protect, and manage all of your disk units and disk pools, as well as work with mirroring and parity protection. iSeries Navigator also allows you to view all stand-alone devices as well as all the tape resources and cartridges within your tape libraries. Using iSeries Navigator, you can duplicate tapes, display or print volume labels, eject a tape from a tape library, format a tape, make a tape cartridge or device (vary it on), make a tape device unavailable (vary it off), print save-or-restore-tape information, print volume contents, and reset tape resources. |
| Secure your network | Network security means that your customers, employees, and business partners can obtain the information that they need to do business with you in a secure environment. iSeries Navigator has several integrated features that will help build a strong defense against the security risks you may encounter along the way. Use iSeries Navigator to configure everything from your basic system security policy to secure end-to-end VPN connections, filter rules, address translation, SSL, enterprise identity mapping, and much more. |
| Work with database records | You can perform many of your database tasks using iSeries Navigator. These tasks include creating and maintaining database objects, inserting or changing data, monitoring and analyzing query performance, and creating a map of your database. See Getting started with iSeries Navigator Database for more details. |
| Connect your network | Use the Network component of iSeries Navigator to configure and manage network communications on your server. Find wizards to easily configure the interfaces, routes, and servers that are necessary for network communications. Verify connectivity using the PING and trace route utilities. Then, choose from a variety of functions to customize the network; for example, you may select IP policies to control and secure your network traffic using QoS or VPN, or choose Remote Access Services to create point-to-point connections. See Networking for detailed information about various networking technologies that you can use on the iSeries. |
| Manage your system workload | System jobs are created by the operating system to control system resources and perform system functions. System jobs run when the iSeries server starts, without user input. These jobs perform a variety of tasks from starting the operating system, to starting and ending subsystems, to scheduling jobs. See Managing jobs for information about managing jobs. |
| Limit application availability | Application Administration allows administrators to limit or grant access to functions, including several iSeries Navigator functions, and other applications for the users and groups on a specific iSeries server. Administrators can also centrally manage many of the properties used by iSeries Access for Windows® clients and use the advanced Application Administration settings to centrally control environment, password, connection, service, and language settings. |