Posts from — July 2007

• BMC and MQSoftware Merge Analytical Processing Tools
  BMC Software today announces integration with MQSoftware technology, enabling BMC customers to track, monitor and evaluate transactions in real-time across the IT environment, from back-end mainframe processing to front-end distributed systems.
  (tags: BMC MQsoftware transx-monitoring)

• iptivia
  Our Service Fidelity solutions provide the access, visibility, and tools to resolve network problems and failures. Designed for service providers and operators.
  (tags: iptivia serviceassurance sqm servicefidelity)
• InfoVista Announces Financial Results for Q4 and Fiscal Year 2006/2007
  In Q4, as we had anticipated, InfoVista continued to face challenging conditions in the US.
  (tags: InfoVista financials)

• Enterprise Systems | Dashboard Yea or Dashboard Nay?
  Haven’t we been here before (20 years ago), when executive information systems first came to the fore? Yes and no, experts say.
  (tags: dashboards bi bpm business-service-management dashboard2.0)
• BMCDN Home
  (tags: BMC developernetwork)
• IBM Techdocs White Paper: Options for sending z/OS Events to TBSM 4.1 and Netcool/OMNIbus
  This paper provides an overview of methods that can be used to send information from z/OS events (SYSLOG messages, SNA alerts, etc.) to Tivoli Business Service Manager (TBSM) Version 4.1 or Netcool/OMNIbus.
  (tags: tbsm4.1 tbsm41 netcool/omnibus z/os events business-service-management bsm integration)
• IBM: Techdocs - the Technical Sales Library
  (tags: ibm techdocs)
• Business Process & Applications Commentary: Analyst Notes from IBM’s Maximo World 2007
  Al Zollar noted in his presentations that convergence is all about breaking down silos and giving c-level executives a unified view into both IT and operational assets both from a financial and efficiency perspective. This sounds great but …
  (tags: IBM Tivoli Maximo MRO EAM asset-management)
• HP’s Opsware Acquisition - Key Gaps Addressed
  the Opsware acquisition fills two critical holes in the HP Software BTO portfolio - gap in policy-based date centre and network change, configuration, provisioning and compliance management automation and the most critical BTO gap of executive leadership
  (tags: HP Opsware M&A)
• Cisco Sets Sights on Server Management
  It takes a lot of moxie to jump into the server management side of the business - But that’s exactly what networking king Cisco Systems (Quote) plans to do, armed with a new product and new ideas.
  (tags: Cisco VFrameDataCenter Datacenter3.0 systemsmanagement provisioning)

Here’s a nice whitepaper on how to get events from z/OS into Tivoli Business Service Manager (TBSM) 4.1 and Netcool/OMNIbus in advance of any formal integrations with z/OS or Tivoli mainframe products.

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This paper provides an overview of methods that can be used to send information from z/OS events (SYSLOG messages, SNA alerts, etc.) to Tivoli Business Service Manager (TBSM) Version 4.1. Since TBSM 4.1 uses the NetCool/OMNIbus technology, these methods can also be used for sending z/OS information to Netcool/OMNIbus.

Available here.

• OnStrategies Perspectives » HP Buys Opsware – Or is it the other way around?
  HP’s announcement that it plans to buy Opsware represents something of a changing of the guard.
  (tags: HP Opsware M&A)

• HP to acquire Opsware in $1.6 billion deal
  will enable HP to offer its customers a “comprehensive and fully integrated solution for IT automation,
  (tags: HP opsware m&a ITPA NCCM CMDB provisioning automation)

• IBM Profit Surges on Software Strength
  The big standouts in the middleware family were the WebSphere lines, which rose by 28 percent, and Tivoli software, with a 33 percent uptick (Tivoli helps customers manage networks, security and storage).
  (tags: IBM Tivoli financials)
• BMC Software Acquires Run Book Automation Pioneer RealOps
  BMC Software (NYSE:BMC) announced today that it has completed the acquisition of RealOps, a leading provider of run book automation solutions.
  (tags: BMC Realops ITPA automation autonomiccomputing runbook)
• Supply Chain Kpi’s - Understanding Supply Chain Metrics And Choosing The Right Kpi’s To Measure — iSnare.com Articles
  The adage here is that less is more and following Pareto’s Principle, 20% of your metrics are going to give you 80% of the SCM information you really need to make effective management decisions.
  (tags: metrics kpi kpm supplychainmanagement scm business-service-management bsm dashboards)
• Zenoss introduces a new enterprise IT monitoring offering
  According to Zenoss CEO Bill Karpovich, this makes Zenoss Core the first open source IT monitoring to offer CMDB capabilities.
  (tags: zenoss oss monitoring cmdb itil itsm)
• BMC Gets Real … RealOps, That Is - Enterprise Applications
  With its acquisition of RealOps, announced today, BMC Software has become the first large enterprise management vendor to have a compelling story around IT process automation.
  (tags: BMC Realops ITPA automation autonomiccomputing runbook M&A)
• OpenNMS vs. Netcool
  While OpenNMS’s service monitoring capabilities have always been a better alternative to the poorly designed ISMs (Internet Service Monitors), it now has the capability to replace much of the functionality of Omnibus and Impact.
  (tags: opennms oss events eventmanagement IBM Tivoli netcool/omnibus netcool/impact)
• SolarWinds Broadens Federal Government Reach through New Alliance with DLT Solutions
  The collaboration between SolarWinds and DLT Solutions enables SolarWinds to offer its network management solutions, including Orion Network Performance Monitor and SolarWinds Tools to DLT Solutions’ federal, state and local government customers.
  (tags: solarwinds networkmanagement monitoring government GSA)

• BSM – ITSM Done Right?
  Business Service Management (BSM) is a term that is all the rage. I used to think ITSM meant BSM, but I have recently changed my mind.
  (tags: bsm itsm business-service-management governance itil cobit itprocess bsm-maturity)
• EsperTech’s open-source Esper software provides Complex Event Processing for BEA WebLogic(R) Event Server: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance
  EsperTech Inc. announced a technology agreement with BEA Systems, Inc., The Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) agreement enables BEA to incorporate EsperTech’s Esper product into BEA WebLogic® Event Server.
  (tags: espertech cep esp eda oss bea events eventmanagement)
• Leverage Nagios with plug-ins you write
  What makes Nagios plug-ins so exciting is the ease with which they’re written and shared.
  (tags: IBM developerworks nagios oss monitoring systemsmanagement networkmanagement)
• Tivoli CCMDB Integration with HP and BMC Service Desks
  Service Desk Integration (SDI) component of IBM Tivoli Change and Configuration Management Database (CCMDB) uses Tivoli Directory Integrator (TDI) to integrate with BMC® Remedy ARS®, or. HP® OpenView® ServiceCenter®.
  (tags: IBM Tivoli CCMDB CMDB service_desk integration BMC Remedy ARS HP ServiceCenter)
• IBM Tivoli CCMDB Query TDI Connector
  This connector facilitates the work of extracting data from CCMDB using the TDI tool.
  (tags: IBM Tivoli OPAL CCMDB TDI)
• TADDM TDI Connector
  Using IBM Tivoli Directory Integrator (TDI) is an easy way to integrate data into Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager (TADDM).
  (tags: IBM Tivoli OPAL TADDM appdisco TDI integration)