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Managing your distributed business applications is essential to leveraging
your IT investment and requires a complete life-cycle approach.
Tivoli's approach focuses on both application development and
administration by providing improved deployment, availability
and management control of your applications.
With Tivoli
Connection, VisualAge developers can easily create management-ready,
distributed applications. An application is said to be management-ready
when there are sufficient information, procedures and tools packaged
with the application to support management activities such as
distribution and installation to target systems, status monitoring,
and software upgrades.
Tivoli Connection enables the development of Tivoli-manageable VisualAge applications
in two ways:
- By instrumenting
your application with Tivoli events, you can communicate
status information to the Tivoli Enterprise Console (TEC).
- With Tivoli
Module Designer (TMD) you can describe the management characteristics
of your application so that Tivoli has the knowledge to manage
it throughout its life cycle.
Tivoli event components
are available with
VisualAge for Java, Enterprise Edition, Version 2.0, VisualAge
C++, VisualAge COBOL, VisualAge Generator, and VisualAge Smalltalk.
These components allow you to easily incorporate event generation
into your application by using the visual programming capabilities
of the VisualAge products. When you run your application, generated
events appear on the Tivoli Enterprise Console (TEC), shown below.
TEC collects, processes and correlates events that are sent from
network, system, database, and application resources.
Tivoli
Enterprise Console
Tivoli
Module Designer
simplifies the task of deploying and maintaining an application
by breaking the application down into components such as client
executables, server executables, and database drivers.Using this
tool, you can describe the management characteristics of each
application component. The Tivoli Module Designer generates Application
Description Files (ADFs) that define a set of management objects
in accordance with the Application Management Specification (AMS).
Application
Management Specification (AMS)
The AMS has
been developed in open collaboration with partners and customers
to address the unique challenges of distributed applications.
The AMS provides a comprehensive applications management definition
that addresses such critical application requirements as component
definition, dependencies, deployment, event monitoring, and applications
maintenance. With the AMS application developers can transfer
vital management information to an operations or systems management
organization.
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