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IBM® Sterling Control CenterDelivering control and oversight for all file movement

May 2010

© 2011 IBM Corporation2

Deliver higher levels of service to your customers who are using integration and file transfer services

Higher Levels of Service

Management

Visibility

Compliance

Visibility

– To all business process and file transfer

activity

– To environment health

– Through rule-driven

service level mgmt

– As proactive alerts

Management

– Of exceptions

before they impact

SLAs

– By centrally restarting processes

– By configuring IBM® Sterling

Connect:Direct® servers to a

common policy

– Through interfacing to enterprise

system management tools

Compliance

– As

consolidated

logging,

reporting,

and analytics


IBM® Sterling Control Center provides visibility, monitoring, and management across the IBM® Sterling Connectivity and Integration portfolio

Configuration Manager

(CM)(for IBM® Sterling Connect:Direct®)

Are my servers configured

correctly? Do they comply

with policy?

Asset Manager

(AM)

Where is my software installed

and running? Is it in

compliance with license

agreements?

Service Level Manager

(SLM)

Where is my file? Where are

my business processes?

IBM® Sterling Control Center(SCC)

Monitoring and management

Change control

Reporting

FTP ServersIBM® Sterling File

Gateway

IBM® Sterling B2B

Integrator

IBM® Sterling

Connect:Direct®

IBM® Sterling

Connect:Enterprise®


Deliver higher levels of service with IBM® Sterling Control Center

Enable good monitoring practices

• Separate file processing and monitoring

• Visibility and notifications

• Secure connections

• Integration with enterprise management systems

• Centralized configuration audit information

• Single console to maintain all IBM® Sterling

Connect:Direct® configs

• Processes & process steps

• File transfers, inbound and outbound

• Complex monitoring scenarios

• Environment health , including for clusters

• Ad-hoc and scheduled reports

• Interoperability with 3rd party reporting tools

• Web console and mobile apps


Enable good monitoring practices - Separate file processing and monitoring

FTP Servers

SCC Engine Database

IBM® Sterling Control Center (SCC)

SCC Console

C:D Browser

SI Browser

Monitoring is separate

from system being

monitored. It collects

and processes data

from the servers.

Database normalizes and

stores the data for all

processes, protocols, and

servers

Consoles allow you

to view and act on

the data

SFG

myFileGateway

SCC Web

ConsoleSCC Mobile

IBM® Sterling File

Gateway

IBM® Sterling B2B

Integrator

IBM® Sterling

Connect:Direct®

IBM® Sterling



IBM® Sterling File

Gateway

IBM® Sterling B2B

Integrator

IBM® Sterling

Connect:Direct®

IBM® Sterling


Enable good monitoring practices - Visibility and notifications

FTP Servers

SCC Engine

Database

IBM® Sterling Control Center (SCC)

Notifications via

email, Console, OS

Commands, and

Server commands.

SNMP notifications

enable easy

integration with

other enterprise

systems.

Email Server

Enterprise Mgt or

Other System

Reports

3rd Party

Reporting

Reports

SCC Console

C:D Browser

SI Browser

SFG

myFileGateway

SCC Web

ConsoleSCC Mobile

Visibility through

reports in SCC or

through 3rd party

reporting tools

Visibility for different

users through different

consoles



Provide visibility

and monitoring












IBM® Sterling Control Center - Service Level (SLM) capabilities

Visibility & Monitoring

• Comprehensive monitoring of environment and activities

• Rules & events engine

• Multiple types of notifications—email, Console alerts, SNMP traps, operating system commands, server commands

• Graphical summary status displays with drill-down for details

Management

• Support of multiple platforms, protocols, and time zones

• Consolidated & normalized data, regardless of protocol or architecture

• Exception-based management

Compliance

• Role-based permissions

• Automatic collection of data

• Detailed logs

• Audit reports


Provide visibility and monitoring: View queued processes and completed processes

Drill-down to details of any

queued or completed process

For some platforms, right-

click access to delete,

suspend, and release


Provide visibility and monitoring: Rules and events engine

Standard IBM® Sterling Control Center

capabilities enable you to provide

notifications on:

•business processes, including steps in

processes

•file transfers sent and received

•files picked up out of mailboxes

•server and adapter status

The out-of-the-box rules

library can easily be

modified and expanded to

meet your business

requirements

Actions are configurable—email,

Console alerts, SNMP traps,

operating system commands,

and server commands


Provide visibility and monitoring: Notifications in console or email

The same alert can trigger a console

alert, send an email, send an SNMP

trap, issue a IBM® Sterling

Connect:Direct® server command, or

issue an OS command






Ensure

compliance and

respond to audits
















Helps ensure compliance and respond to auditsIBM® Sterling Control Center - Asset Manager (AM) capabilities

License Key Management

• Alert and report on expiring license keys

• License key import/receive

• License key export/push (for some servers)

Inventory Reporting

• Server Inventory

• Server Status

• Monthly File Transfers

Connect:Direct Node Discovery

• Discovery servers in the environment

• Import them into Control Center for management and/or monitoring


Helps ensure compliance and respond to auditsManage your file transfer assets

License expiry and PSP

provide information for

managing your software

licenses.

Server version numbers

can help you manage your

upgrade plans.


Helps ensure compliance and respond to auditsSystem information

Detailed license information

Operating System

information

Server version


Helps ensure compliance and respond to audits IBM® Sterling Control Center - Configuration Manager (CM) capabilities

Central Configuration

• Manage IBM® Sterling Connect:Direct config objects: (create, read, update, delete for most)

• Netmaps (nodes, modes, commpaths)

• Initialization parms

• Functional authorities and User proxies

• Secure+ (cipher suites, trusted certs, key certs, nodes) (configure Secure+ node and push but not create/modify)

Common Interface

• Wizard interface with basic and advanced editing capabilities, including syntax validation and popup help

• Update and copy config objects across servers

• Full-text search across servers/platforms

Policy Management

• Protected templates for config objects

• Compare config objects and templates across servers/platforms

Change Control

• Versioning and aging of config objects

• Audit log of server config changes including server id, last modified date/time, user id, object type, and value

• Conflict management between local config and central config


Helps ensure compliance and respond to auditsLocal config vs. Central config

IBM® Sterling Control Center –

Configuration ManagerIBM® Sterling Connect:Direct®

Local Config

Management

Business as usual

management of

configuration files on

the local servers. Local

IBM® Sterling

Connect:Direct® server

continues to use

configuration files as it

does today—including

create, maintain, delete.

Central Config Management

Pull config objects from the local

server, maintaining a central copy

of the exact object.

Ad-hoc or scheduled sync process to

ensure SCC and the local server are

in sync

Push config objects to the local

server, updating the config object

on the server.

Create new config objects in SCC

and push them to the server. Or

select a version of a config object,

modify it, and push it to the server.


Helps ensure compliance and respond to auditsSimplified configuration management

Single interface to access config objects

across servers and take action on them—

netmap nodes, functional authorities, user

proxies, and initialization parameters

Sync local and central

version of configs, and

also view config versions

• Create and delete versions

• Copy objects from one server to

another.

• View, compare, and delete

versions of config objects


Helps ensure compliance and respond to auditsAudit logs & reports

Can also be run as a report, which

means it can also be saved,

scheduled, and emailed.

Tracks last modified

information, including

content






Track and

publicize results













Track and publicize reportsOut of the box reports

Multiple pre-defined reports


Thank you!

For more information:Susan [email protected]

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