Removing Constraints to Growth

Automation can help you remove constraints on system and network growth. For example, ever-increasing data rates might constrain your growth.

As you add faster systems and larger networks to the environment, your operators can receive more messages and alerts. Under normal operating conditions, most operators can read and comprehend each message but might have difficulty reacting to all of them. Automation can reduce the number of messages and alerts that are displayed by:

Suppressing routine messages
Blocking routine alerts
Responding to messages and alerts automatically

Increasing the number of consoles also constrains growth. New products can add consoles that you need to manage. Regardless of your operating system, having many systems requires many consoles. Automation consolidates consoles on individual systems and helps you operate many systems from one centralized point.

Another constraint is the increasing complexity of networks. Interconnected networks often include large numbers of resources, many product types, and combinations of TCP/IP and Systems Network Architecture (SNA) resources. Finding experienced operators to manage all of them can be difficult and costly.

Automation reduces the complexity of the operator's task by managing complex networks according to rules that you specify. Therefore, automation can help you to manage system and network growth.