IBM Sterling Control Center

Sterling Control Center is a system management solution for managing file transfer activity across multiple instances of IBM® Sterling Connect:Direct®, IBM Sterling Connect:Enterprise®, and/or IBM Sterling B2B Integrator.

Sterling Control Center can monitor several servers running different products and platforms. You can also monitor Sterling B2B Integrator using Sterling Control Center.

Sterling Control Center provides centralized monitoring, management for improved quality of service, and better compliance with service level agreements (SLAs).

Sterling Control Center provides enterprise-wide monitoring and management of IBM solutions, including:
  • Monitoring of data transfer activities, adapter status, and perimeter server status
  • Environment information such as operating system, database type, JDK, and license information
  • Alert and event notification, including business process or file transfer failure
  • Centralized auditing and reporting
  • Centralized administration and configuration
  • Monitoring quality of service using service level criteria (SLC)
  • License management
The benefits of using Sterling Control Center include:
  • Lower operating costs by preventing downstream process interruptions and SLA penalties
  • Detection of minor processing exceptions to prevent business problems
  • Improved service levels and business relationships by ensuring critical processing windows are met
  • Elevation of alerts to ESM tools such as Tivoli, HP OpenView, and BMC Patrol
  • Optimized processing across the network
  • Reports generated from consolidated log data