IBM WebSphere Business Monitor V6.0.2 adds productivity enhancements
IBM United States Software Announcement 206-254October 10, 2006
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At a glance
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| At a glance |
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IBM WebSphere Business Monitor V6.0.2 delivers:
- Customizable dashboard, implemented as WebSphere Portal pages, that are visually intuitive
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Multidimensional analysis and reports supported through the dashboards, with embedded business
intelligence
- Creates customized analytic components that monitors existing business processes
- Allows user to do multidimensional analysis
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Capability to monitor specified by the business user
- Adaptive Action Manager invokes selected real-time action or set of actions based upon predefined rules and policies
- User controlled filtering of the reports
- Sophisticated business analysis integrated with business processes
- Innovation and optimization enhanced in key business processes
- Capability to understand and transform your business through insightful business modeling, simulation, and analysis — enabled with WebSphere Business Modeler Advanced
- A collection of business events in a Common Base Event (CBE) format you can correlate into meaningful key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics
For ordering, contact:
Your IBM representative, an IBM Business Partner, or IBM Americas Call Centers at
800-IBM-CALL
(Reference: YE001).
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| Overview |
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IBM WebSphere® Business Monitor lets you monitor business events in real-time by providing key users with a visual display of business process status together with alerts and notifications. WebSphere Business Monitor is tightly integrated with both WebSphere Business Modeler and WebSphere Process Server.
What's new in V6.0.2
- Enhanced Business Activity Monitoring (BAM): Users have the ability to monitor events beyond WebSphere Process Server. By creating an event emitter, any application that is identified as business critical can now be monitored.
- Improved dashboards: The monitor dashboard supports updates to and personalization of key performance indicators (KPI) thresholds.
- WebSphere Business Monitor Development Toolkit: A graphical editor, which allows users to develop and test a monitoring model within the WebSphere Integration Developer environment. Included is one restricted use license of WebSphere Integration Developer. If you require additional development environments for the WebSphere Business Monitor, then you will need to purchase new or use existing licenses of WebSphere Integration Developer.
- Business monitor programming model: A monitoring model can be expressed in XML format.
- Improved administration: Users have a step-by-step guide for deploying a monitoring model.
- Improved versioning support: Users have better control of change management of a monitoring model.
- WebSphere network deployment: Users can install WebSphere Business Monitor in a WebSphere network deployment topology enabling high availability of monitoring models.
- Improved installation: The installation process is simplified and reduces the complexity, size, and duration of the installation.
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| Key prerequisites |
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- Microsoft™ Windows™ 2000 or Windows 2003
- AIX® V5.2 or AIX V5.3
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| Planned availability dates |
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V6.0.2 (English)
- December 22, 2006 — Electronic delivery
- January 26, 2007 — Media delivery
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V6.0.2.1 (National language)
- March 30, 2007 — Electronic delivery
- April 20, 2007 — Media delivery
Note:
WebSphere Business Monitor includes prerequisite and complementary
products. For all availability dates specified in this announcement, the
bundled prerequisite and complementary products will include translations
for the following languages (if available): French, Italian, German,
Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, and
Traditional Chinese.
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| Description |
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New features and enhancements in WebSphere Business Monitor V6.0.2
Enhanced Business Activity Monitoring (BAM)
Prior releases limited users to monitoring Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) applications running in WebSphere Process Server. Users now have the ability to monitor events emitted by additional event sources.
Improved dashboards
The monitor dashboard interface has been extended to support updates to and personalization of key performance indicators (KPI) thresholds as expectations and the business environment changes. In addition, KPIs can now be defined with respect to business dimensions such as time period, location, and organization.
WebSphere Business Monitor Development Toolkit
The monitoring model editor lets you use a graphical editor to create and develop a monitoring model in XML. The editor uses monitoring models from the WebSphere Business Modeler as input as well as BPEL events from the WebSphere Integration Developer. In addition, this new editor will allow for users to import Common Base Event (CBE) definitions from any source in order to do a level of business activity monitoring on that source. This tool is targeted for a technical user who is familiar with the events being emitted by the source applications and who can define business requirements for business measures, alerts, and dimensional analysis.
Monitor programming model
The business monitor programming model now allows for a monitoring model to be expressed in an XML format. This provides a well-defined format for describing the processing of events, calculation of business measures, and detection of business situations.
WebSphere Business Monitor now provides a lightweight monitor installation option to accelerate the development and validation of monitoring models. Technical users can quickly make changes to monitoring models, send events to the monitor, and then view the results of processing through a simple user interface.
Improved administration
The administration capabilities now provide users with a step-by-step guide for deploying a monitoring model. In addition to an administration console view, a non-GUI interface allows users the ability to script administration capabilities.
Improved versioning support
Versioning has been enhanced to allow users a better level of change management. When a user makes changes to a monitoring model, they now have the ability to have active instances continue using the old version and new instances using the new version.
WebSphere network deployment
Support for installing WebSphere Business Monitor in a WebSphere network deployment topology is now available. Individual monitoring models can run on separate servers and monitoring servers can be federated into a WebSphere Application Server network deployment cell. New support for clustering of monitoring models provides failover functionality, eliminating single point of failure and ensuring high availability.
Improved installation
The WebSphere Business Monitor V6.0.2 installation process has been simplified to reduce complexity, size, and duration of install. Users have the flexibility to choose existing installations of the prerequisite software, foregoing the installation of the prerequisites from the launchpad. In addition, the installation footprint of prerequisite software and the overall installation time has been significantly reduced.
Availability of national languages
General
Product description Language availability date
WebSphere Business English U.S. January 26, 2007
Monitor V6.0.2
WebSphere Business Multilingual (French, April 20, 2007
Monitor V6.0.2.1 Russian, Hebrew,
Arabic, Korean,
Chinese --
Simplified, Spanish,
Portuguese-Brazilian,
German, Japanese,
Chinese --
Traditional,
Hungarian, English
U.S., Greek,
Turkish, Czech,
Italian, Polish)
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| Education support |
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IBM training provides education to support many IBM offerings. Descriptions of courses for IT professionals and managers are on the IBM training Web site
Refer to the IBM training Web site for information on course locations and availability dates.
Call IBM training at 800-IBM-TEACH (426-8322) for catalogs, schedules,
and enrollments.
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| Offering Information |
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Product information is available via the Offering Information Web site
Also, visit the Passport Advantage® Web site
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| Publications |
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No publications are shipped with WebSphere® Business Monitor V6.0.2.
WebSphere Business Monitor publications will be available December 22, 2006, in .pdf format at
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| Technical information |
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Specified operating environment
Hardware requirements
For information on the hardware requirements for WebSphere Business Monitor, visit
Software requirements
For information on the software requirements for WebSphere Business Monitor, visit
Planning information
Extended entitlement: IBM plans to protect customer investments and does not expect current customers to migrate immediately from currently entitled products to WebSphere Business Monitor V6. In order to facilitate the extended migration periods that some customers may require, IBM is offering extended entitlement.
Effective upon the date of electronic software delivery, customers with active subscription to eligible products can activate extended entitlement to WebSphere Business Monitor. For information on extended entitlement activation, eligible products and their equivalent extended entitlement products, and general information about extended entitlement, visit the Entitlement section at
Customers should contact their IBM representative for questions and additional assistance.
Software Maintenance, previously referred to as Software Subscription and Technical Support, is included in the Passport Advantage Agreement. Installation and technical support is provided by the Software Maintenance offering of the IBM International Passport Advantage Agreement. This fee service enhances customer productivity, with voice and electronic access into IBM support organizations.
Packaging: WebSphere Business Monitor is distributed via electronic download and a single physical media pack with multiple CD-ROMs.
Security, auditability, and control
WebSphere Business Monitor uses the security and auditability features of the host hardware or software.
The customer is responsible for evaluation, selection, and implementation of security features,
administrative procedures, and appropriate controls in application systems and communication
facilities.
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| Software Services |
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IBM Software Services for WebSphere (ISSW) is adept at putting the right team together whether it be with customer personnel, with IBM Global Business Services, or with the global systems integrator of the client's choice to support the successful deployment of WebSphere Business Monitor in the client's environment. ISSW brings product, technology, and best-practices expertise that can make any implementation team more effective. As specialists in WebSphere products, we have the collective experience of hundreds of live customer implementations and hundreds of consultants globally to help ensure our success.
ISSW professionals complement the project delivery team by providing deep insight into product technology and architecture, as well as linkages back to the software development organization. ISSW services offerings are tailored to each individual client's needs, and the services range from a full outsourced deployment to focused specialist services packages that enable a project team or client to address specific challenges.
ISSW can also assist clients with upgrading from earlier versions of WebSphere products. Any migration of applications involves proper planning, estimation, and timed execution. ISSW can assist by precisely assessing and evaluating the client's existing infrastructure and support system. IBM Software Services for WebSphere has extensive, proven experience in successful product migrations.
Our ISSW consultants:
- Are missioned with helping make "WebSphere products successful".
- Minimize our clients' migration risks. We've harnessed years of field experiences into a migration services program to help customers successfully migrate.
- Provide deep technical skills on WebSphere and WebSphere process integration products.
- Bring "tried-and-true" best practices expertise to every engagement.
Packaged and custom service offerings are available, including specific pre-defined services offerings, to get clients off to a running start with WebSphere process integration products.
ISSW offers technical, product-specific services for WebSphere software products in each of these four categories:
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Assess, for example
- Technical architecture sizing and planning
- Enterprise process integration strategy
- Mentoring and team augmentation
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Design, for example
- Design Workshop
- Design Review
- Mentoring and team augmentation
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Develop and deploy, for example
- External code reviews
- Go-Live Support
- Off-site development
- Mentoring and team augmentation
- Performance Tuning
- Quality Assurance Reviews
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Maintain, for example
- Maintenance, enhancement and operation support of the production environment Go-Live Support
- Migration service
- Full operational review
Visit the Web sites below to learn more about ISSW's capabilities, and contact your ISSW Services sales specialist for specific information about services offerings for WebSphere process integration products.
For more information, visit
Your ISSW Services sales specialist's name may be found at
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This product is only available via Passport Advantage. It is not available as shrinkwrap.
Product information
Licensed Product Product
function title group category
IBM WebSphere App App
Business Monitor Integration Integration
Middleware Middleware
Other Other
PID Charge unit
Program name number description
IBM WebSphere Business Monitor 5724-M24 Value Unit
Charge metrics definitions
Value Unit
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With full capacity licensing, a PoE must be acquired for the appropriate number of value units based on all activated processors on the server available to the program or a component of the program.
Passport Advantage program licenses
WebSphere Business Monitor
Part
Part description number
IBM WebSphere Business Monitor
IBM WebSphere Business Integration E029TLL
Monitor VU Annual SW Maint Rnwl
IBM WebSphere Business Integration D56KQLL
Monitor VU Lic+SW Maint 12 Mo
IBM WebSphere Business Integration D56KULL
Monitor VU SW Maint Reinstate 12 Mo
Passport Advantage supply
Part
Program name/description number
WebSphere Business Monitor V6.0.2
Media Pack English U.S. AIX(R) V3.x, Windows(TM) AF0BCEN
2000, Windows Server 2003 CD-ROM Digital Disk --
ISO 9660 Standard V6.0.2
WebSphere Business Monitor V6.0.2.1
Media Pack Multilingual (French, Russian, Hebrew, AF0BDML
Arabic, Korean, Chinese -- Simplified, Spanish,
Portuguese-Brazilian, German, Japanese, Chinese --
Traditional, Hungarian, English U.S., Greek,
Turkish, Czech, Italian, Polish) Windows 2000,
Windows Server 2003, AIX 5L(TM), V5 CD-ROM Digital
Disk -- ISO 9660 Standard V6.0.2.1
Passport Advantage customer: Media pack entitlement details
Customers with active maintenance or subscription for the products listed are entitled to receive the corresponding media pack.
WebSphere Business Monitor V6.0.2
Entitled maintenance Media packs Part
offerings description description number
WebSphere Business WebSphere Business AF0BCEN
Monitor Value Unit Monitor English U.S.,
Multiplatforms,
CD-ROM Digital Disk --
ISO 9660 Standard
Withdrawal of previous Passport Advantage part numbers: Effective May 18, 2007, IBM will withdraw from marketing the following products licensed under the IBM International Program License Agreement. A replacement product and availability date is listed if one is available.
Withdrawn products Replacement products
Part Part Avail.
number Product name number Product name date
5724-I74 IBM WebSphere
Business
Monitor V6.0.1
AF0AQML WebSphere Business AF0BDML WebSphere Business 4/20/07
Monitor AIX, Monitor AIX,
Windows 2000, Windows 2000,
Windows Server Windows Server
2003, V6.0.1 2003, V6.0.2.1
Non-Cryptograph Non-Cryptograph
Orders for these part numbers will not be accepted after the stated effective date of withdrawal,
nor will normal marketing activities or educational support be available unless previous agreement
exists between the customer and IBM.
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This product is only available via Passport Advantage. It is not available as shrinkwrap.
Licensing: IBM International Program License Agreement and License Information document. Proofs of Entitlement (PoE) are required for all authorized use.
Part number products only, offered outside of Passport Advantage, where applicable, are license only and do not include Software Maintenance.
This software license includes Software Maintenance, previously referred to as Software Subscription and Technical Support.
License Information form number
Program
Program name number Form number
WebSphere Business Monitor 5724-M24 L-DJEN-6NBL73
On or near the planned availability date, the LI will be available for review on the IBM Software License Agreement Web site
Limited warranty applies: Yes
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iSeries™ Software Maintenance applies: No
Educational allowance available:
Not applicable
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