Links that I have found interesting for June 9th:
- Best practice to instrument transactions with Transaction Tracking API (TTAPI) – Applications with high availability and good performance are very important to enterprise businesses. However, the architecture of the application system is very complex at the present time, and can involve many components or servers in a production environment. Providing a high quality of service and improving the service level across an enterprise is a challenge for any IT management team.
IBM® Tivoli® Composite Application Manager for Transactions 7.1 Transaction Tracking (ITCAM for Transaction Tracking), is a tool that can help with these challenges. ITCAM for Transaction Tracking offers an API called TTAPI, which is a key component of ITCAM for Transaction Tracking that enables the on demand, end to end transaction tracking capability. This paper introduces a best practice for using the TTAPI. - Novell® SalesTalk™ » Overview of Business Service Management – Ross Brunson give an overview of Business Service Management.
Novell Business Service Management solutions let you excel at your business by providing you with solutions to more effectively monitor and manage your IT infrastructure.
- Compuware launches new evolution of Vantage – Specifically, Vantage 11 unifies the performance management and business service management sides, so that the IT department not only checks that the applications are performing, but also ensures that this performance is aligned with the business goals.
"It is a monitoring solution, and our monitoring software watches the entry and exit points of the data centre, to measure real users and all transactions, all the time," he said. "The other approach is that we can stimulate end user actions, so called dummy or synthetic users."
"The Vantage 11 release combines end user experience (eue), with Proxima's business service management product, combining it all into one cohesive suite," he said.
"It is a large step forward and it is what makes us unique, by combining comprehensive eue (both real and synthetic) monitoring and business service management, as a single solution,"
- Compuware sees business in end-to-end service monitoring – He explained the toolset unifies what where previously the separate product lines of Vantage Service Manager, Server Vantage, Network Vantage and Client Vantage Active and Agentless, with Compuware’s Changepoint application portfolio management (APM) line.