The IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.1 Solution Is the Next Generation of IBM Tivoli′S Monitoring Family of Products
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Software Announcement September 27, 2005 The IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.1 solution is the next generation of IBM Tivoli′s Monitoring Family of products Overview • Automated programmatic upgrade of Distributed At a glance The IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.1 Monitoring V3.7 solution is the next generation of IBM IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.1 can help • Integration of products and Tivoli′s family of products that help you: workflows — The Tivoli monitor and manage critical Enterprise Portal bringing • hardware and software in distributed Boost your value to the together monitoring and — environments. business Effectively link management of both mainframe together IT Ops services, Products included in the IBM Tivoli and distributed platforms to a processes, skills, and tools single console, including, tighter Monitoring V6.1 solutions include: • integration with Tivoli Event Consolidate management under • IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.1 Console, and extensions to IBM a revolutionary, easy-to-use portal • Tivoli Monitoring V5 monitoring IBM Tivoli Monitoring for infrastructures Databases V6.1 • Customize the rich visualization of availability information • IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Key prerequisites Messaging and Collaboration V6.1 • Benefit from hundreds of Refer to the Hardware requirements out-of-the box best practices • IBM Tivoli Monitoring Active section. Directory Option V6.1 • Develop your own customizable work flows via an intuitive, GUI Planned availability dates The major enhancements of this • release include: • Access an easy-to-use November 8, 2005 (electronic warehouse with advanced software delivery) • Ease of use — The new operator reporting capability user interface to help users to • November 18, 2005 (media and • Experience a quick, quickly isolate and resolve documentation) straightforward deployment that potential performance problems is easy to manage • Visualization of information — • Provide a clear path for existing Visibility into the monitoring IBM Tivoli distributed infrastructure focusing on both monitoring customers to performance and availability leverage the new capabilities management • Enhance globalization • Increased breadth of monitoring — More critical resources and For ordering, contact: performance metrics across Your IBM representative or the disparate platforms throughout Americas Call Centers at the enterprise 800-IBM-CALL Reference: YE001 • Reduced total cost of ownership and improved time to value — Simplified installation, configuration, and lightweight agent rule deployment, with self-monitoring capabilities to help you reduce total IT operational costs This announcement is provided for your information only. For additional information, contact your IBM representative, call 800-IBM-4YOU, or visit the IBM home page at: http://www.ibm.com. IBM United States IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation. 205-240 • View problems from multiple perspectives including Description enterprise, platform, and resource views-charts, graphics and dynamic tables enable substantial insight Tivoli software from IBM raises the bar for monitoring many of the leading operating systems, databases, and • Intuitively drill down to the source of contention and applications with our next generation of IBM Tivoli other problems Monitoring solutions. Products included in the IBM Tivoli • identify trends and develop capacity plans by Monitoring V6.1 solutions include: leveraging views of historical data and statistics IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.1 This helps optimize staff productivity and application • UNIX availability by minimizing the time spent hunting down the • Microsoft Windows causes of slow performance. • i5/OS Situations: IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.1 features supplied • Linux • and customizable situations that you can use to detect Linux on z and repair problems as they happen. Alerts can be IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Databases V6.1 tailored easily to help your environment and facilitate automatic resolution of recurring problems. Features that • DB2 help you proactively manage your environment include: • Oracle • • Microsoft SQL Out-of-the box supplied situations include a • Sybase combination of metrics and thresholds to trigger, identify, notify, and cure problem prevention IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Messaging and mechanism. Based on industry best practices, they Collaboration V6.1 allow for a superior and robust management system. • Microsoft Exchange • Situation Editor is included to setup your own intelligent alerts and thresholds based on detailed IBM Tivoli Monitoring Active Directory Option V6.1 and/or/logic that gives you the power to create granular notification and eliminate false alarms. IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.1: IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.1 is • built on a new lightweight, highly scalable architecture Take Action resolves recurring problems by running that is comprised of various components including the built-in scripts, or new scripts which can be easily Tivoli Enterprise Portal, the Tivoli Enterprise Portal created. Server, the Tivoli Enterprise Management Server, and • Expert Advice — When you receive an alert of a monitoring agents. The Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server detailed explanation of the problem and potential fixes, manages the contents and GUI presentation of the use knowledge our of-the-box or edit the feature to browser and desktop clients. preserve solutions specific to your environment. Monitoring data from applications and resources from Reporting: Advanced integrated reporting capabilities for systems and subsystems is collected by the monitoring both real-time and historical data collection through the agents and are passed on to the Tivoli Enterprise Tivoli Data Warehouse component. Reports can be Management Server for data collection, filtering, customized for user preferences so you see only the data correlation, and root cause analysis. that is important to you. With IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.1 comes a new Tivoli Data Workflow Automation: Enables you to solve complex Warehouse component based on a simplified database system problems automatically using automated system structure. The new data warehouse provides processes called policies. Policies can be designed using configuration and collection improvements. It delivers the Workflow Editor, perform actions, schedule work to be data for analysis and reporting through the IBM Tivoli performed by users or automate manual tasks. Enterprise Portal. Administrative tasks for data aggregation, summarization, and pruning of historical c) The new smaller footprint does not require Tivoli data ease the management of long term data. Management Enterprise Framework to reduce total cost of ownership. More efficient data collection results in Enhancements include: lower memory usage and CPU Utilization on managed systems. It does not require the Tivoli Framework for a) Simplified installation, intuitive interface, and simplified operation and deployment, reducing operational monitoring and management capabilities using simple complexity. point-and-click functions significantly improving time to value d) Automatic IBM Tivoli Monitoring agent and patch deployment throughout your distributed enterprise. b) Delivers new GUI via the IBM Tivoli Enterprise Portal component. This common, flexible and easy-to-use e) Command line interface for improved management of browser interface helps users to quickly isolate and your monitoring environment, including the ability to resolve potential performance problems, across host and configure individual agents. distributed platforms. Features of the Tivoli Enterprise Portal include: f) Programmable upgrade for existing Distributed Monitoring users to the IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.1 Portal workspaces: Helps to quickly pull together metrics, solutions to simplify and ease administration of upgrading dynamic charts, tables, and graphics while investigating the monitoring infrastructure. specific performance problems and availability issues from multiple vantage points across heterogeneous g) Extends the IBM Tivoli Monitoring V 5.x environments. platforms within the enterprise. Workspaces can be The resource model health and resource model metrics customized and stored to contain views of critical events available from IBM Tivoli Monitoring 5.x environments are and conditions with user-selectable charts and graphs. visualized into the Tivoli Enterprise Portal, and integrated Personalized workspaces help users to: into the new Tivoli Data Warehouse, along with the other capabilities of IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.1. 205-240 -2- h) Enhanced platform support for including infrastructure IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Messaging and components including, Linux, z/Series support, and Linux Collaboration V6.1 on z/Series support. IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Messaging and Collaboration Note: z/Series platform support is separately provided builds upon the new IBM Tivoli performance and by the IBM Tivoli Monitoring Services on z/OS V6.1 availability monitoring architecture, and provides the program, and is also available for use with the mainframe monitoring and management tools to help improve OMEGAMON suite of offerings. performance, availability, and administration for Microsoft Exchange Servers. It includes support for the new IBM i) Integration of the Tivoli Event Console into the Tivoli Tivoli Data Warehouse component providing Enterprise Portal. Situations can send events directly to enterprise-wide access to data for historical and trending the Tivoli Enterprise Console . analysis, reporting,