VISUAL Control for Windows (Brochure) Relax! Now you can make the most of your time and your servers without becoming a system performance guru. VISUAL Control Center is a suite of integrated modules to accelerate and control your IT systems and applications, achieve better system response times, guarantee predictable service levels and automate system management tasks.

Imagine this: being able to have centralized, birds eye performance visibility and monitoring of all of your iSeries, Windows servers, Linux, Unix and AIX systems. VCC allows you to simultaneously monitor, detect, prevent performance bottlenecks, analyze historical resources usage and trends, support users, and warn you immediately of any system problems so that you can keep all your applications running happily.

VISUAL Control for Windows is a real-time graphical console, displaying the vital signs of multiple iSeries, Windows servers and SNMP-based systems, collecting and analyzing thousands of performance metrics (CPU usage, memory, processes, hard drives, operating systems, jobs, etc.) many times per minute and reacting automatically to any potential problem. No more guessing - see exactly what is happening, right at the very second.

FEATURES
   *  Real time performance monitoring of up to 999 local or remote iSeries, Windows servers and SNMP-based systems (including Linux, Unix and AIX systems)
   *  Identification of potential problems and performance bottlenecks
   *  Customizable graphics of iSeries and Windows vital signs: CPU, memory, disk, response times, page faults, abusive jobs, processes, transactions, communications, Dynamic Supervisor, Memory Optimizer, power supply and UPS, front panel and key, and much more
   *  Using the embedded ALEV logical expression editor users can develop scripts, set variables and specify their own requirements, thresholds and alert conditions
   *  Instant generation of web enabled performance portals
   *  Instant integration of performance portals with Websphere Portal Server
   *  Customizable alert system with definable automatic problem responses
   *  Customizable multi-Windows graphs
   *  Historical performance data collection (snapshots) in dBASE format
   *  Direct link with VISUAL Support Pro to drill down to vital job information
   *  NiceLink enabled for super fast and flexible iSeries/Windows connections

Accelerate your iSeries and Windows servers instantly
Get faster response times, more transactions per hour. By improving workload distribution among your systems and enabling self-configuration and optimization of your servers, you can dynamically reduce the number of page faults and bottlenecks in your IT infrastructure. Get the most out of your hardware investment.

Get more out of your applications
The more complex your system, the more VISUAL Control Center can help to improve performance. Give a tremendous boost to the service levels of your custom applications, Web servers, ERP and CRM packages, etc.

Be in control
Give high priority to your critical business services. VISUAL Control Center allows you to control your systems so that they behave according to your business needs. Manage users, subsystems, jobs, processes and programs, so that memory and CPU power is where your business needs it, when it needs it. Know what is going on and detect heavy users, abusive programs and memory leaks. Monitor the activity of your systems and end-users in real time or historically.

Greatly improve user satisfaction
Avoid complaints; provide enhanced support. Forget about user complaints. VISUAL Control Center will put you on top of any iSeries or Windows performance problem, on any interactive or batch job/process, running on local or remote servers.

Get more predictable performance
Adapt instantly to changing workloads. The workload of your systems changes constantly. VISUAL Control Center makes iSeries/Windows performance more predictable, so that your business never suffers. Non-urgent processes that degrade global performance are prevented from abusing system resources, stabilising response times even when running end-of-month tasks.

Free yourself from tuning tasks, no performance expertise required!
VISUAL Control Center is an automatic solution based on Service Level Management best practices. It requires no specialist performance tuning knowledge to use, it requires no dedicated supervision, and it consumes very little system resources. Simply install VISUAL Control Center and forget about performance problems. Let the predefined thresholds and alerts do the hard work, and just fine-tune them to suit your needs. Unique programming tools to align SLM with your business objectives. With the embedded ALEV logical expression editor, you can easily develop scripts and set multiple variables, specifying your own requirements, thresholds and alert conditions.

Achieve High Software Availability
Avoid expensive downtime
Increase the availability, predictability and continuity of your business services.
Give your users optimum response times when using critical applications, even at peak hours. Solve any potential problem (even at the application level) before it affects your business operations. Provide immediate support to local and remote users at any time, from anywhere in the world

Justify hardware upgrades
Show convincing statistics to management. VISUAL Control Center's performance statistic analysis provides solid, easy to understand information about system performance, so that you can detect performance trends and anticipate future needs. Hardware upgrades can be presented and justified to management using attractive charts, so you can get the approval before you need the capacity.

Monitor performance of local and remote servers
Instant reaction to potential system problems. Collect and monitor real time performance data from any number of local and remote iSeries, Windows, Linux, UNIX and AIX servers using any Windows PC. By customizing alarm settings, you can be alerted (or schedule automated responses) to any potential problems before they become critical.

Analyze historical information
VISUAL Control Center allows you to graphically analyze historical performance information from any PC, providing 2D and 3D color performance reports. Identify performance trends and bottlenecks and correlate to real causes.