Make the most of your server resources by using this information to provide optimum server function, efficiency, and availability. Learn how to distribute and group system resources, plan backup and recovery situations, secure your server, manage multiple servers, and analyze or troubleshoot any performance problems that might occur on your server.
Availability
This topic includes a general overview of server availability. Learn about availability strategies and decide what level of availability you need in your business environment.
Backup and recovery
This topic includes information on how to back up your server information and how to ensure that your server runs 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Basic system operations
Use this information to explore some of the introductory concepts related to your server and the operating system. You can also use this guide to perform basic system operation tasks, such as starting and stopping your server and working with users, jobs, and devices.
Capacity on Demand
Use this information to learn more about Capacity on Demand, a term that refers to all of the offerings and capabilities that allow you to dynamically activate one or more processors during peak periods of business demand.
Clusters
Clusters let you efficiently group your servers together to set up an environment that approaches 100% availability.
Common Information Model (CIM)
The Common Information Model (CIM) is a standard developed by a consortium of major hardware and software vendors (including IBM) called the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) as part of the Web Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) initiative. WBEM includes a set of standards and technologies that provide management solutions for a distributed network environment. Interoperability is a major focus of WBEM, and using WBEM technologies can help you develop a single set of management applications for a diverse set of resources.
Disk management
Use the information in this topic to effectively manage your disk units, disk pools, and independent disk pools. Find strategies to help you protect the data on your disk units.
Journal management
With the journal management recovery and audit functions, you can record the activity of objects on your server. Use this information to learn strategies for effective journal management.
Logical partitions
With logical partitions, you can distribute resources within a single server to make it operate as if it were two or more independent servers. Use this information to learn more about logical partitions, from planning your configuration to effective management strategies.
Management Central
Use Management Central to make your system administration tasks simpler, easier, less time-consuming, and much less repetitive. Management Central can also lower your overall total cost of server ownership. It provides the technology you need to do systems management tasks across one or more servers simultaneously.
Performance
Meet your changing business needs by creating and implementing a performance strategy to manage server performance. Use this information to learn about the resources, tools, and strategies available for managing and maintaining server performance.
Security
These topics help you secure your server. You can find information about securing applications, communications, and your system.
System values
Learn how to view or change system-wide values for your server, from basic system date and time information to more advanced processing and security settings. Use the System value finder to help you find system values from the character-based interface using the iSeries(TM) Navigator interface and terminology.
Time management
Using the time management function of iSeries Navigator, you can work with time zones and time adjustments. Use a time zone to set your system time and automatically update the system time for the start and end of Daylight Saving Time (DST), if DST is being observed. You can also use time adjustments to update system time automatically. Use this information to learn about these and other time management capabilities on your server.
Work management
Work management is an important building block within the operating system. Use work management functions to control how all work that enters the system is processed, run, and completed by managing the jobs and objects on your system. You can adjust the way work is managed on your server to fit your business environment.