IBM Sterling Control Center

IBM Sterling Control Center

As file transfers connect your processes, they need to be monitored and managed across applications, business units, time zones, locations, customers, and trading partners.

Sterling Control Center gives you a consolidated view of your entire file transfer environment—plus the power to respond quickly and efficiently to exceptions, and changes in your environment. Sterling Control Center helps you:

  • Improve SLA performance with centralized exception management, notifications, rules, events, and reporting
  • Meet compliance and regulatory requirements via policy definition, auditing, and reporting
  • Simplify managing your file transfer network through central configuration management

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Features and Benefits

Monitoring Service

  • Displays alerts and sends notifications about process failures or processes that might not complete on time
  • Provides guided topology discovery
  • Provides SNMP interface to enterprise system management tools
  • Lets you run system commands and send server commands
  • Single click problem interrogation
  • Monitors file transfer activity
  • Aligns server views with operational

Rules Engine

  • Simply define rules about events and actions similar to e-mail inbox rules (for example, send a notification when a server license is going to expire, or a transfer is late)
  • Defines match criteria and trigger actions
  • Defines schedules, processes, file names, and other metadata* all through a simplified GUI interface
  • Lets you run system commands and send server commands
  • Single click problem interrogation
  • Monitors file transfer activity

Audit and Compliance

  • Consolidates and normalizes file transfer and process data from all managed servers into a single SQL database
  • License key management and node discovery
  • Manages Connect:Direct and Sterling Control Center configurations, including providing change control
  • Assess security and configuration compliance
  • Generates over 35 standard reports
  • Control user access to specific data, through criteria based, “data visibility groups”
  • Reporting for activity and throughput analysis, operational audit, proof of transactions, error analysis, proof of transactions, supports major third-party reporting tools

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