Product
IBM STERLING
Control Center
Extend governance over critical B2B integration and MFT file exchanges
IBM Sterling Control Center gives you a consolidated view of your entire file transfer environment, plus the ability to respond quickly and efficiently to exceptions and changes in your environment.
IBM Sterling Control Center can help you monitor file transfer processes and react to exceptions before they become problems.
IBM Sterling Control Center portfolio includes two products: IBM Sterling Control Center Monitor and IBM Sterling Control Center Director.
- IBM® Sterling Control Center Monitor
- IBM® Sterling Control Center Director
Gain control over your MFT and B2B environments
Get out of reactive fire-fighting mode. Proactively address issues and achieve your SLA commitments with confidence. IBM® Sterling® Control Center Monitor tracks the critical events across your B2B and managed file transfer (MFT) infrastructure for improved operations, customer service and B2B governance. It applies rules to alert key audiences when there is a problem with a server, process or transfer. Actionable dashboards are customized for various types of users.
Features
Improve visibility
Monitor file transfers and B2B processes. Align server views with operational logic. Identify schedules, processes, file names, user roles and security capabilities.
Improve management of a distributed infrastructure
Central monitoring and configuration management provide visibility into file transfers and B2B processes across a supported network infrastructure through a simplified graphical user interface (GUI).
Increase customer satisfaction with transparency
Provide proactive visibility in service level agreements (SLAs) impact events through web browser access, alerts and notifications, single-click problem interrogation and rules creation.
Improve governance and compliance by monitoring
Continuous controls monitoring with near real-time notifications. Consolidate and normalize file transfer and process data from managed servers into a single SQL database with embedded reporting.
Common unified interface
Use a centralized interface to create and delete configuration objects, and update multiple servers across different platforms. Also provides syntax checking and full text searches to simplify management.
Reduced errors and downtime with version control
Maintains distinct versions of objects, which can be retained for auditing or restored, and provides an audit log that includes changes to configuration objects, showing changes and who made them.
Security policy tools im prove compliance
Lets you assign user authorities and proxies for servers, and offers protected templates for configuration objects to compare across servers and platforms for improved compliance.
Remotely manage MFT nodes
Through a single console, IBM® Sterling Control Center Director makes it faster and easier for you to centrally update and configure IBM Sterling Connect:Direct nodes — and scale your managed file transfer environment — so you can focus on other value-driven activities. With Control Center Director, you can easily identify and audit all Connect:Direct license entitlements, schedule and deploy patches and updates, and manage server configurations anywhere on the network.
Benefits of IBM® Sterling Control Center Director:
Operate MFT with efficiency
Remotely update all of Connect:Direct nodes from a central console, lowering the time and cost of managing your MFT environment.
Govern with confidence
View and manage all Connect:Direct deployments in near real-time across your distributed environment for continuous audit and improved governance and compliance.
Scale to the enterprise
Resources are limited, but the needs are great. Provide uncompromising support and maintain compliance no matter the scale of your MFT environment.
Key Highlights of IBM® Sterling Control Center Director:
Deploy updates and patches remotely
Schedule and deploy Connect:Direct software updates and patches from a central console. Ensure process integrity and governance by tracking the status of jobs in near real-time.
Inventory management
Know what's in your environment. View and track Connect:Direct instances to always have a current and accurate inventory of your managed file transfer infrastructure.
License management
Enables you to maximize entitlement usage with an always up to date view of license status and utilization. Quickly audit license usage for auditing and ensure compliance.
Configuration management
Lets you assign user authorities and proxies for servers, and offers protected templates for configuration objects to compare across servers and platforms for improved compliance.
Remote server start-stop
No need to logon to each server, remotely start and stop Connect:Direct servers and server groups to manage the installation and verification process.
pecifically designed for Connect: Direct
Purpose-built by the same people that bring you Connect:Direct, giving you greater control and confidence in managing your Connect:Direct environment.
IBM Control Center helps us maintain full visibility of an average of 100,000 file transfers per day, which helps us ensure that we’re delivering on time, every time.
Technical Director - Global payment solutions provider
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