Deployment Guide Series: IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.2

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򐂰 IBM Tivoli Configuration Process Manager (included in Tivoli CCMDB)

automatically manages the configuration of your IT infrastructure.

Figure 1-1 shows the Process Oriented Solutions from IBM.

Figure 1-1 Process Oriented Solutions from IBM

1.2.2 IBM Operational Management products

IBM Operational Management products help users to ensure the availability,

reliability, and performance of business-critical software and hardware, aid in

optimizing storage requirements, and help meet ongoing needs for data security.

򐂰 Business Application Management helps maintain availability and optimal

performance of business-critical software applications spanning multiple

servers, operating systems, and databases:

– IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for WebSphere®

• Helps increase the performance and availability of business-critical

applications through real-time problem determination across

subsystems: WebSphere, CICS®, and IMS™.

– IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for Response Time Tracking

• An end-to-end transaction management solution that can proactively

recognize, isolate, and resolve user response time performance

problems.

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– IBM Tivoli Business Service Manager

• IBM Tivoli Business Service Manager V4.1 provides operational and

business audiences with the service visibility and intelligence needed

to effectively manage real-time service health and business activity,

including automated service modeling, service impact analysis, root

cause analysis, and tracking of key performance indicators and SLAs in

targeted dashboards.

– IBM Tivoli Change and Configuration Management Database (CCMDB)

• Discovers and federates IT information spread across the enterprise,

including details about servers, storage devices, networks, middleware,

applications, and data.

– IBM Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager (TADDM)

• Provides complete and detailed application maps of business

applications and its supporting infrastructure, including cross-tier

dependencies, runtime configuration values, and complete change

history.

• The IBM Tivoli Monitoring integration with TADDM provides

comprehensive monitoring of application resources, automatically

identifies all resources that are unmonitored, and automatically

provisions agents.

• The benefits of using TADDM with IBM Tivoli Monitoring is faster

closed loop troubleshooting, identification of infrastructure changes,

and the reduction of Mean-Time-To-Resolution (MTTR) by the

correlation of infrastructure health to changes.

򐂰 Server, Network, and Device Management helps users to optimize availability

and performance of underlying IT architecture, including networks, operating

systems, databases, and servers.

– IBM Tivoli Monitoring

• Proactively manages the health and availability of your IT

infrastructure, end-to-end, including operating systems, databases,

and servers, across distributed and host environments.

– IBM Tivoli Network Manager IP Edition

• Real-time network discovery, topology, and root cause analysis for

layer 2 and 3 networks.

– IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager

• Provisions and configures servers, operating systems, middleware,

applications, storage, and network devices.