Overview of the IBM i Administration Runtime Expert
The IBM i Administration Runtime Expert (ARE) helps ensure your environment and application attributes remain in a consistent and expected state
ARE has many use cases. Some examples include using ARE to ensure your system settings are unchanged, ensure multiple partitions have consistent configurations, track application and object attributes to determine if something has changed when application issues arise, verify settings for compliance requirements, and more.
ARE consists of two parts:
- The console, which provides the user interface to create templates, set up groups of systems, run or schedule verifications and review the resulting reports. The console is delivered in the 5733-ARE licensed program product and only needs to be installed on a partition where you will use the GUI. The LPP is available at no charge and can be downloaded from the ESS site. The IBMARE web server must be started to access the console.
- The core runtime, which is the code that runs the verifications. I often refer to this as the ARE runtime engine. This functionality is part of the base operating system, so no additional products are required to run verifications on endpoint systems.
- System values and network attributes
- Environment variables
- An extensive set of application and object attributes
- Configuration files
- IBM Products and PTFs
- Network configuration and ports
- User profile attributes
- CL Commands or QShell scripts to easily check on a variety of information
- SQL Query verifier, to verify attributes you can access via SQL (e.g., IBM i Services)
- And anything else you can imagine with custom plugins
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Dawn May is an IBM i consultant. She owns Dawn May Consulting, LLC in the Greater Boston area. Dawn is a former IBM senior technical staff member.
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