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What Business Service Management means to IBM Tivoli

by doug on June 2, 2008

This is Dan Tabor’s Business Service Management (BSM) presentation and audio from the IBM Tivoli Pulse user conference held last month in Orlando. Dan is the Senior Product Manager for BSM and a few of the enabling BSM products and acronyms (TBSM, Impact, TADDM, TIP, TCR) at IBM Tivoli. Listening to this presentation, you’ll hear Dan share what BSM is and how he’s driving IBM Tivoli’s BSM direction in current and future releases of the BSM portfolio from IBM Tivoli.

While Dan and I agree on many things related to BSM and the direction IBM Tivoli should be taking or where investments should be made, we agree to disagree in many areas. Dan has the very difficult job of balancing customer wants and needs with the difficult IBM politics, process and bigger picture.

If you’d like to hear more about IBM Tivoli’s Business Service Management story and solutions, feel free to contact myself or your local IBM Tivoli (or Business Partner) representatives.

See the screencast presentation here.

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My IBM Tivoli Pulse 2008 Session on TBSM: Planning for the Next Generation of TBSM – Distributed, Mainframe and Beyond

by doug on May 29, 2008

I’m making my IBM Tivoli Pulse 2008 session on TBSM available for those who were unable to attend the user conference this year or missed my session. The links below will allow you to download the session slides and an mp3 audio recording.

The session agenda was:

  • Overall Migration and Upgrade Planning
  • Architectural and Functional Planning
  • TIP Planning
  • Event Source Planning
  • LoB, Service and Application Decomposition
  • Service Model Design Planning
  • TBSM v3 to TBSM v4 Planning
  • TBSM v4.2 Migration, Upgrade and Architecture Options

Please feel free to contact me or your local IBM Tivoli teams if you’d like help in preparing for your next generation deployment of TBSM. I hope that through this session you understand how critically important planning, design and architecture is for your success with Business Service Management, the TBSM solution and enabling products.

Doug McClure’s IBM Tivoli Pulse 2008 Session Presentation : Preparing for the Next Generation of TBSM: Distributed, Mainframe and Beyond

Doug McClure’s IBM Tivoli Pulse 2008 Session Audio

All IBM Tivoli 2008 session presentations are available here. I will be adding the session audio for a few others related to BSM and TBSM soon.

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My IBM Tivoli Pulse Recap and Pulse Presentations Archive

As a long time attendee and speaker as a customer at vendor user conferences, IBM Tivoli Pulse 2008 was a massive event. The location was hot and humid Orlando, FL., a short, yet painfully packed with tourist flight took me safely to MCO late Saturday night. I’d spent nearly six months of my life attending [...]

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IBM Tivoli Pulse Next Week

I will be at Pulse all next week and eager to meet many of you that may follow my blog. I’d be very interested in talking shop with you and hearing about your own individual journey towards Business Service Management. If you’re interested in doing a podcast, I’ll have a new gadget with me to [...]

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In Search of a BSM Situation and BSM Event from ITM 6.x

In this series of thought provoking posts I’ve asked for the ability to instrument for Business Service Management (BSM) at the managed system source and introduced a concept for an ITM 6.x BSM Profile and BSM Descriptor File. I’ve also proposed new organizational concepts that would establish end-to-end ownership for BSM within the typical monitoring [...]

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Is your Tivoli Monitoring, Netcool/OMNIbus or TBSM Organization Structure a Barrier to BSM Success?

Many of the clients I work with have dedicated groups within the IT organization, operations or monitoring group based on common monitoring or product areas. For example, many larger Tivoli clients have a dedicated distributed systems monitoring group that is responsible for all ITM based monitoring, another group responsible for event collection and management with [...]

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My ITM 6.x BSM Profile should include a BSM Descriptor File

Our TADDM product has a pretty nifty capability to help it along in its discovery process. You have an option to create files called Application Descriptors that are simple XML files that describe what business applications are deployed onto the server, what components make up the application and how these various components are organized, grouped [...]

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All I want for the new year is a BSM Profile for ITM 6.x

One of the foundations of Business Service Management (BSM) is to see things from the business perspective. To get there, one of the best ways to do that is to instrument for BSM at the source. The majority of all server agent deployments for HW/OS monitoring and COTS application agents (DB, AppServer, etc.) are deployed [...]

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