Sterling Integrator Health Check

A B2B Integration Health Check provides you with a prioritized list of key performance issues so you can pinpoint and address them within your IBM Sterling Integrator environment.

The Health Check uses diagnostics to expose vulnerabilities in your infrastructure and operational processes. The Health Check report provides those responsible for supporting and managing your IBM Sterling Integrator architecture with an action plan for increasing operational efficiency and maximizing system uptime, thereby reducing costs.

Health Check Benefits

• Assess and accurately diagnose current system issues and concerns
• Identify security, performance and configuration problems before they can impact your critical operations
• Analyze critical processes to ensure minimum downtime
• Have a deeper understanding of, and visibility into, your integration architecture’s functionality and how to troubleshoot failures
• Identify warnings or red flags that adversely affect users
• Verify that your transactional data (in-bound and out-bound) is secure, insuring the integrity of all your trading partners’ information
• Receive a detailed analysis of, and solution for, any issues or concerns identified in the health check
• Receive recommendations for best practices for supportability, administrative activities, upgrades and maintaining general solution health

Health Check Steps

System Architecture Review

• Performance baseline–identification of possible bottlenecks
• General server and environment specific configuration and settings
• Process isolation mode–reliability versus performance
• Event logs
• Security–recommendation of specific tools as applicable

Operations Review

• Backup and restore, disaster recovery policies, and other protections
• Logging practices

Network Architecture Review

• Network performance analysis in relation to Sterling Integrator environment
• Communication between all servers within the integration architecture – performance, reliability, and security evaluation
• Communication with your trading partners–performance, reliability, and security evaluation

Application Review

• Evaluation of key architectural points: configuration, authentication, deployment, and other elements
• Sterling Integrator and database configuration settings
• Business process configuration and optimization review
• Sterling queuing analysis and optimization

Health Check Deliverables 

Upon completion of the Health Check, you will receive a report containing our findings, and recommendations to ensure the continued health of your organization’s integration architecture. The report will include clear, actionable information so your organization can take meaningful steps toward achieving optimal system efficiency.