IBM Control Center

IBM Control Center (ICC) gives you a consolidated view of your entire file transfer environment, along with the power to respond quickly and efficiently to exceptions and changes. ICC enables you to define rules about events and actions. ICC can display alerts and sends notifications about process failures or processes that may not complete on time so you can address them immediately and ensure Service Level Agreements (SLA) compliance. Monitor and manage file transfers across applications, business units, time zones, locations, customers, and trading partners. ICC 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

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)
Gives you the power to define 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
Enables 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