Registration is still open for the Tivoli North Central User Group meeting on Sept 14/15 in Chicago. You can register for one or both days at www.tivoli-ug.org
Date: Sep 14th, 2006
Meeting time: 8:30 – 4:30
Meeting location: IBM Technical Exploration Center – Chicago – Hyatt Center 71 South Wacker Drive (Corner of Wacker & Monroe) – 6th Floor Chicago, IL 60606 USA
Meeting topic: Micromuse Netcool/Omnibus/Precision/TEC Updates
Agenda:
8:30 – 9:00 – Meet/Greet
9:00 – 9:30 – Tivoli User Presentation: Hewitt Associates – Overview of TEC and Tivoli Monitoring/Administration for MQ at Hewitt – Kelly Root, Hewitt Associates
9:30 – 9:45 – Break
9:45 – 11:30 – Netcool/Omnibus – Technical product overview/dicussion of Netcool Omnibus. Learn the product capabilities, components, and architecture. – Laura Knapp, IBM
11:30 – 12:30 – Lunch / Networking opportunity
12:30 – 2:00 – Netcool/Precision – Technical product overview/discussion of Netcool/Precision IP. Learn the product capabilities, component, and architecture of PrecisionIP – Laura Knapp, IBM
2;00 – 2:15 – Break
2:15 – 3:30 – TEC/Netview/Micromuse Roadmap/Futures – Understand the product roadmap for TEC, Netview and Micromuse (Omnibus and Netcool) products – Divyesh Viadya, IBM
3:30 – 4:30 – TEC technical update – Technical update on the latest with Tivoli Enterprise Console. – Divyesh Viadya, IBM
Date: Sep 15th, 2006
Meeting time: 8:30 – 4:30
Meeting location: IBM Technical Exploration Center – Chicago – Hyatt Center 71 South Wacker Drive (Corner of Wacker & Monroe) – 6th Floor Chicago, IL 60606 USA
Meeting topic: ITM/TCM
Agenda:
8:30 – 9:00 – Meet/Greet
9:00 – 9:30 – RMI Monitoring for Clusters © provides real-time status on the performance and availibility of Windows and HACMP server clusters. RMI will present this application which renders actual cluster information, automatic correlation, and automatic closure of events that easily integrates into your existing Tivoli environment, including framework, TEC and ITM 5.1 & 5.2 (and support for ITM 6.1 in 3Q06 release) – Tim Reid, QA Director, RMI
9:30 – 9:40 – Break
9:40 – 10:10- ITM 6.1 Update and 5.x migration information – Technical update on the latest with ITM 6.1 FP2/FP3 and an update on the migration on strategy from ITM v5.X and DM to ITM 6.1. – IBM
10:10- 10:20 – Break
10:20 – 11:45 – ITM 6.1 Problem determination/Debugging. A technical session on common problems in ITM 6.1, techniques to analyze problems, such as logfiles to check and other things to check when problems are encountered with ITM 6.1. – Jason Shamroski, Gulf Breeze Software
11:45- 12:45- Lunch (working) – ITM 6.1 Reporting – demonstrate QuickReporter (from IBM’s OPAL website) and discuss reporting in general using open source and other tools. – Jason Shamroski, Gulf Breeze Software
12:45- 12:55 – Break
12:55 – 1:40 – Gulf Breeze Patch Management will demonstrate a hybrid patch management solution using CM 4.2.3 and Shavlik’s HFNETCHECK to patch Windows OS and applications. – Jason Shamroski, Gulf Breeze
1:40 – 1:50- Break
1:50 – 4:30 – TCM update including information on new non-Framework version .Understand what’s coming with the Configuration and Provisioning management. Learn the new SOA based framework of TCM v5.1 (a.k.a. Tivoli Provisioning Manager for Software v.5.1) and the migration path from the old Tivoli Management Framework – IBM