Managing your systems with iSeries Navigator for Wireless

 

You can manage your systems from a wireless device. Use iSeries™ Navigator for Wireless to interact with monitors in Management Central and in Integrated xSeries^® Servers. You can run commands, work with tasks and systems, and control user access.

Using iSeries Navigator for Wireless is quite simple. After your central system is set up, you can connect to it by pointing your Internet-ready telephone, personal digital assistant (PDA), or traditional Web browser to its URL. The device connects to your central system, asks you to log on, and shows you a summary of the status of all your systems, monitors, and tasks. iSeries Navigator for Wireless is designed with the assumption that as long as you can find out that your systems, monitors, and tasks are running smoothly, no other information is required. You always have the option to view more information, and you can even check the detailed monitor metrics on systems that are running smoothly. But generally, if everything is OK, it is assumed that the summary is all look at. When you manage your systems with iSeries Navigator for Wireless, you can feel confident when your wireless device tells you that everything in your network of systems is OK, because you define what OK means in your environment. If you set up the systems and monitors you are interested in, and you tell the monitor to be triggered at a certain threshold, then all you have to do is to view the iSeries Navigator for Wireless summary page and you can easily determine whether everything is running smoothly or whether something needs attention.

• Working with systems
  You can use iSeries Navigator for Wireless to view system properties and customize which systems are displayed.

• Working with Integrated xSeries Servers
  With iSeries Navigator for Wireless, you can manage your Integrated xSeries Servers from your wireless device.

• Working with tasks
  With iSeries Navigator for Wireless, you can view summary details for all your Management Central tasks.

• Running commands across multiple systems
  You can use iSeries Navigator for Wireless to run any i5/OS command across multiple systems. Select Run Command from the summary page, which then asks you to select the system or system group on which to run the command. Or, select a system from your system list and run a command on it.

• Viewing and interacting with monitors
  If you have preconfigured monitors to run in Management Central, you can view and interact with system monitors, message monitors, job monitors, file monitors, and B2B activity monitors using iSeries Navigator for Wireless.

 

Parent topic:

iSeries Navigator for Wireless

 

Related concepts

Connecting to your central system
Setting up iSeries Navigator for Wireless