COMMON POWERUp 2021

Everything You Need to Know About the IBM i Administration Runtime Expert, Part Business-critical applications must be up and running reliably without failure. When something unexpected occurs, you must identify the cause and correct it quickly. We all want to find ways to make our jobs easier, and unexpected surprises are not fun. The relentless push to do more with less is only going to intensify while the tolerance for failure keeps dropping. Yet identifying points of failure can be tricky as complexities scale. IBM i offers a free product that helps ascertain application and infrastructure health. The IBM Administration Runtime Expert for i (ARE) can be used to define attributes of a healthy environment and use those defined attributes to validate that the environment is as expected. In this session, you will learn the basics for how to set up templates and validate systems.

Learning Objectives:
1. Learn how to acquire the IBM ARE product, where it needs to be installed, and how to log in and get started_x000D_ 2. Learn how to create templates that define the attributes to verify_x000D_ 3. Learn how to set up system groups for verification_x000D_ 4. Learn how to review the reports from a validation