Posts from — September 2006

The Dashboard Spy has put together a sleek and sexy web 2.0′ish set of dashboard indicators that he/she is offering up to the community.

These are perfect for use in your dashboard storyboards and mockups created as you work through the iterative development of dashboards with each audience. You can use simple Powerpoint animations to show how the dashboard will work based on the rules you will agree upon with each audience as well. Very cool!

I will write a short post up on how to use these in Netcool/RAD 3.0 dashboard creation. They can virturally drop right into the tree view and custom canvas dashboards and be driven by your data and policies. Very cool and very nice complement to the widgets and indicators in Netcool/RAD 3.0 today.

Thanks again to the Dashboard Spy for yet another great resource!

• Open IT CIO Dashboard Project - Home Page
  Project Objective: Collaboratively develop a solution that provides an IT Resource Planning (ITRP) set of capabilities that delivers ERP like capabilities to Member’s IT Shops. Member companies will use ITRP to run their shop more effectively. Today impor
  (tags: OSS IT-management IT-value CIO IT Dashboards)

• CA :: New Release of CA’s Unicenter NSM Leverages SQL Server, Integrates With CA and Third-Party Solutions
  CA (NYSE: CA) today announced a new release of Unicenter Network and Systems Management (Unicenter NSM) that offers a management database (MDB) built on Microsoft SQL Server and eases integration with CA and third-party management solutions — enabling cu
  (tags: CA Unicenter)
• Business Activity Monitoring by Systar - Solutions - BusinessBridge BusinessVision
  BusinessBridge BusinessVision BusinessBridge BusinessVision is a real-time business activity monitoring solution that enables business operations staffs, business executives, application groups and business process owners to take proactive control of thei
  (tags: Systar BSM BAM BusinessBridge)
• Business Activity Monitoring by Systar - Solutions - BusinessBridge WideVision
  BusinessBridge WideVision BusinessBridge WideVision is a real-time monitoring solution that monitors all the alerts and transactions across all your business services and then links them to the business services concerned. WideVision brings the unique bus
  (tags: Systar BSM BAM BusinessBridge)
• Business Activity Monitoring by Systar - Solutions - BusinessBridge ServiceVision
  BusinessBridge ServiceVision BusinessBridge ServiceVision is a real-time monitoring solution that takes IT operations staff, application support staff, service delivery staff as well as the business beyond the traditional infrastructure monitoring tools.
  (tags: Systar BSM BAM BusinssBridge)

I’ve added a list of things that should be done in advance of opening a PMR for a suspected problem with Netcool/RAD 3.0. By doing these things, the speed of getting a meaningful response from IBM Support should be greatly increased.

See the list here. Let me know if you think of others.

• IBM prepares open-source systems management initiative for Eclipse | InfoWorld | News | 2006-09-08 | By Paul Krill
  IBM and other parties are set to propose an open source systems management initiative for consideration by the Eclipse Foundation, with managing SOA a goal of the plan, an IBM official said at the EclipseWorld 2006 conference on Friday.

  Tentatively re

  (tags: IBM OSS systemsmanagement)
• AlterPoint ‘Open Network Initiative’ to Advance Network Management Software; Key Step is Aligning with Open Management Consortium to Forward Open Standards for Network Management - Forbes.com
  AlterPoint, the leading provider of intelligent network change and configuration management (NCCM) solutions, announced today the Open Network Initiative, a strategy to bridge the gap between the network infrastructure and the network services that are cr
  (tags: AlterPoint NCCM)

• LXer: Solidcore Introduces Next-Generation Change Control Software for Improving IT Service Availability
  Solidcore Systems, Inc., the leading provider of real-time change control solutions, today introduced its next-generation change control software that now supports databases and network devices, in addition to existing support for servers and desktops. So
  (tags: Solidcore changemanagement itil itsm)

• EMC Unveils Two Advanced Correlation and Analysis Solutions Aimed at Service Providers
  EMC Corporation, the world leader in information management and storage, today unveiled two enhanced correlation and analysis software solutions – EMC Smarts MPLS Manager 1.3 and EMC Smarts Network Protocol Manager (NPM) 2.0. The software offerings help
  (tags: EMC SMARTS MPLS networkmanagement monitoring)

I’ll be in Amsterdam this week working with some of IBM’s global Business Service Management and Dashboarding subject matter experts as we collaborate on future offerings in these areas. I look forward to the discussions on strategy, consulting, services and products that will enable IBM’s future success. I’m especially interested in hearing from those who’ve been in front of our clients worldwide and the lessons learned from previous BSM and dashboard implementations.

Any recommendations for things to do or see in Amsterdam are appreciated!