I started optimizing my installations of these products today to “take back control” of all the browsers I have open on my desktop.
Netcool/RAD 3.0 was the first product to ship with our Netcool GUI Foundation (NGF) solution for establishing a common GUI framework/portal for all of our products. One of the features of this is the ability to create portlets of other content, applications, web pages, etc. to create all-in-one pages for the various audiences within any given environment. Since I’ve been working with Netcool/RAD 3.0 and the new ITCCMDB CDTS/CMDB (fka ITADDM) solution, I thought this would be a good starting point.
This picture is showing the embedding of the main CDTS/CMDB GUI into a new “page” I’ve called ITSM. Within the ITSM “page” I’ve created multiple “tabs” to represent the various GUIs I want to embed. Each tab has a “viewpoint” which is the actual content being embedded.
This tab is showing the CDTS/CMDB Domain Manager GUI after logging in.
This tab is showing the CDTS/CMDB Domain Manager Application Summary display. These are many of the discovered and modeled applications running on my laptop that I created after installing the ITCCMDB CDTS/CMDB product a few weeks back.
The “tab” approach for every piece of content or GUI probably won’t scale due to the horizontal real estate available. NGF offers the ability to embed “menu panes” within a “tab” so that may be best for consolidating similar solution GUIs. Each of these would be a “tab” across the top with a focused “menu pane” on each “tab”. I’ll probably end up with something like this.
CDTS/CMDB
– CDTS Main GUI (Web)
– CDTS Domain Manager GUI (Web)
– CDTS Product Console (Java Client)
PMIP
– PMIP Main GUI
– ITPM – Change Management
– ITPM – Release Management
– ITPM – Availability Management
– ITPM – Storage Management
CDTS/CMDB – Netcool/RAD 3.0 Integration
– Integration Status
– Integration Schedule
– Integration Artifacts
There’s nothing too difficult about this if you’re working with Netcool/RAD 3.0 and the NGF framework. I’ll talk more about the details of how to do it later after I figure out some of the quirkiness that I experienced as I worked on this today.