by doug
on June 28, 2007
in
Best Practices,
Business Service Management,
dashboard,
E2E Service Management,
IBM,
Implementation,
OPAL,
Service Management,
Service Modeling,
TBSM,
Tivoli,
Usability,
Visualization
A new Tivoli OPAL submission today for Tivoli Business Service Manager (TBSM) 4.1. This package introduces a method for leveraging the legacy Tivoli Business Systems Manager (TBSM) 3.1 backend with the new TBSM 4.1 front end to make use of the more advanced visualization and management capabilities within TBSM 4.1.
You should review this even if you do not have the legacy TBSM 3.1 as there are some really good things in here related to TBSM 4.1 ESDAs, custom scorecards and even incorporating custom icons into the TBSM 4.1 system.
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The IBM Tivoli Business Systems Manager (TBSM 3.1) ESDA feature is designed as an aid for representing TBSM 3.1 Business System folders in an IBM Tivoli Business Service Manager (TBSM 4.1) system. The feature utilizes the External Service Dependency Adapter (ESDA) capabilities of TBSM 4.1 to accomplish this task. This feature of TBSM 4.1 incorporates knowledge of the TBSM 3.1 database schema that would not generally be known to a customer trying to develop this capability on their own.
The TBSM 3.1 ESDA feature provides rules that will retrieve high level TBSM 3.1 business system folders and create service instances in TBSM 4.1. This helps preserve the customer investment in building the TBSM 3.1 business systems tree by reflecting at least the executive level business systems in a TBSM 4.1 service model. In addition, the TBSM 3.1 status can be reflected on the 4.1 services. Thus, TBSM 3.1 and TBSM 4.1 can be run in parallel and will stay consistent with regards to the high level service content and status.
Beyond simply reproducing the TBSM 3.1 high level service model, this feature exposes the model to all the many capabilities that TBSM 4.1 has to offer. By exploiting the SLA, data integration, and visualization capabilities of 4.1, TBSM 3.1 executive users can be provided with a greatly enriched Executive Dashboard.
http://www.ibm.com/software/tivoli/opal?NavCode=1TW10BM02
by doug
on June 28, 2007
in
Best Practices,
Business Service Management,
dashboard,
E2E Service Management,
Events,
IBM,
Implementation,
ITCAMforSOA,
Service Management,
Service Modeling,
SOA,
TBSM,
Tivoli,
Value,
Visualization
New Tivoli OPAL submission for Tivoli Business Service Manager (TBSM) 4.1 out today. Check this out if you’ve got both TBSM 4.1 and ITCAM for SOA. This integration will allow ITCAM for SOA “services” to be consumed within TBSM 4.1 and SOA oriented service models to be built automatically. Events will then be mapped to bring the service model and dashboards to life.
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TBSM V4.1 integrates with various Tivoli products including ITCAM for SOA using Discovery Library Technology. This white paper describes the customization required to have the flow of status events from ITCAM for SOA to TBSM.
http://www.ibm.com/software/tivoli/opal?NavCode=1TW10BM03
Some videos on EMC’s AppDisco stuff – former nLayers products. You have to register first to see this stuff – they should be using YouTube these days and stop collecting info on folks!
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Learn how to get the most from EMC Smarts Application Discovery Manager. Through this series of videos, EMC’s Glenn O’Donnell, principal product marketing manager, discusses the benefits of automated change, configuration, and incident management. See what Application Discovery Manager can do for you.
EMC on Smarts Application Discovery Manager
Review the basics of EMC’s Smarts Application Discovery Manager (ADM) and learn how you can benefit from automatic, real-time discovery of applications and their distributed components. http://www.accelacomm.com/jlp/eTEXTCHALK1062707/7/80060916/
EMC on Defining a Configuration Management Database Strategy
Discover how you can easily automate data collection, relationship mapping, and object-oriented federation—all with EMC’s Smarts Application Discovery Manager. http://www.accelacomm.com/jlp/eTEXTCHALK2062707/7/80060916/
EMC on Automating Data Center and Server Consolidation
If you’re looking to remove the risk from your data center and server consolidation efforts, watch this video.
http://www.accelacomm.com/jlp/eTEXTCHALK3062707/7/80060916/
