EView/400i Discovery for IBM i (iSeries-AS/400) environments, developed by EView Technology, helps companies manage the tasks associated with Change, Incident, Problem and other IT Service Management disciplines forIBM i (iSeries-AS/400)​-based Configuration Items (CIs). Adding the EView/400i Discovery agent to the Micro Focus Universal Discovery (UD) for Micro Focus Universal Configuration Management Database (UCMDB) enables companies to view the IBM i (iSeries-AS/400) CIs and their inter-relationships with distributed resources.
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Through seamless integration with the Micro Focus UD software, EView/400i Discovery eliminates the need for high-level UCMDB or iSeries (AS/400) expertise.  This tight integration of UD and EView Technology solutions provide a comprehensive, accurate, and complete view of your iSeries (AS/400) infrastructure.

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Highlights

• Builds on Micro Focus Universal Discovery (UD) Topology Discovery and extends its value to IBM iSeries (AS/400) Environments.

• Seamless Integration with UD and Dependency Mapping Software (DDMA), for Micro Focus UCMDB

• Auto-populate and maintain the UCMDB with all major IBM i (iSeries-AS/400) CI and CI relationships

• Reduce or eliminate decision times and errors resulting in providing increased productivity with intelligent automation

​EView/400i Discovery works with Micro Focus Universal Discovery to provide the ability to visualize and understand the configuration items (CIs) and easily build an inventory of critical physical and logical entities along with their interrelationships.

This information is then populated in the UCMDB to create a detailed model of your IT environment for service modeling and service impact analysis.  Micro Focus UD gives you the power to accurately discover what exists in your  IT environment and map how it relates to other IT elements that support your business-critical services. This information is then stored in the UCMDB and made available to other solutions in your IT environment so that everyone in IT can use the same service context.

Through this process, EView/400i Discovery collects information about IBM i (iSeries-AS/400) CIs to populate the Micro Focus UCMDB.  The discovered information includes  Resource and Object information.  The highly flexible auto-discovery enables the UCMDB to maintain the most precise and current CI data, providing the enterprise a single point of accuracy for the IBM i (iSeries-AS/400) data.  

EView/400i Discovery is intelligently designed for minimal footprint and negligible system resource consumption, the discovery process is flexible and supports the ability to set specific auto-discovery parameters, based on your unique business needs.

EView/400i Discovery’s seamless integration with Micro Focus Universal Discovery provides organizations with an efficient and cost effective way to harness the power of the IBM i (iSeries-AS/400) environment which is a crucial part of a comprehensive Enterprise IT strategy.  

Features and Benefits

To help you diagnose and resolve problems more quickly, Micro Focus UD automatically and continuously discovers your IT environment and maps inter-dependencies from layer 2 to layer 7 of the OSI model and stores this information in the UCMDB.  Benefits include:

• A complete end-to-end solution which includes the IBM i (iSeries-AS/400) environments.
• Minimizing finger-pointing within IT by creating a common view of the services that IT delivers and how the IT infrastructure supports these services.
• Accelerating incident and problem resolution through automated change tracking.
• Understanding the potential impact of changes prior to executing them through predictive change impact analysis.
• Identifying compliance issues.

Key Capabilities

• Full, seamless integration with Micro Focus Universal Discovery (UD), for Micro Focus UCMDB. 
• Capture change history each time a change to a CI is discovered
• Supports dynamic scheduling of discovery tasks to keep objects accurate and up to date.
• Faster application response time and improved data availability increase efficiency and streamline business problem detection and resolution.
• Accelerated access to data and comprehensive business intelligence further free up business and IT resources and provide quicker time to value.
• Real-time partitioning of information from the IBM i (iSeries-AS/400) across the enterprise aligns the entire IT infrastructure – including partitions and subsystems.
• Deploy changes to the infrastructure - quickly inventories the hardware platform and all major software subsystems.
• Enables IT to resolve the most urgent incidents faster by impact modeling to support predictive change impact analysis, and prioritize incidents by business service critically.
• Improve productivity by automating day-to-day tasks.
• Regular usage of EView/400i Discovery can be used as an audit tool in order to reconcile new or changed CIs.
• Mitigate risk by ensuring that changes are made consistently with accuracy.

What is Discovered
With EView/400i Discovery and Micro Focus UD, IT organizations can now discover specific CIs for inclusion into the UCMDB.  The discovered information includes:  

• Local Storage with ASPs
• Memory
• LPAR
• CPU
• Network Connectivity
• Installed Software
• Selected System Values
• Subsystems
• Active Jobs
• Job Queues
• Output Queues
• Libraries
• Program Objects

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