A&BSM Enablement Best Practices

A&BSM Enablement Best Practices

Welcome to the A&BSM (Availability & Business Systems Management) Enablement Best Practices Web site. The new release of IBM Tivoli Monitoring Version 6.1 is the foundation for integrating mainframe systems, distributed systems, applications, and the Tivoli Enterprise Console by using the Tivoli Enterprise Portal. The Tivoli Enterprise Portal provides a single user interface and single point of control for enterprise-wide performance monitoring and management:

Tivoli Enterprise Portal (TEP)

A key component of this integration is the ability to quickly and efficiently extend your monitoring support to cover all of your IT infrastructure needs. That is the purpose of the A&BSM Enablement Best Practices Web site and team. The A&BSM Enablement Best Practices Web site and team helps with accelerating the adoption of IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.1 by assisting with the development of custom monitoring solutions.

In this Web site you can find the following information:

• White papers that provide information on how to configure and leverage your IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.1 infrastructure
• Published monitoring solutions for common applications
• Example Universal Agent solutions for each Universal Agent data provider
• Complex situations to tie together key components of your IT Infrastructure
• Custom workspaces to display your monitoring data in new ways
• Command-line interface (CLI) and Web services scripts to configure your IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.1 environment
• Web forum for answering customer and partner questions

Interested in talking to IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.1 customers and business partners? Check out the discussion forum under the Resources section of this site.

If you are interested in talking to IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.1 customers and business partners, click the Resources tab at the top of this Web site and then click IBM Tivoli Monitoring Best Practice Discussion Forum.

If you are a business partner who has developed a new monitoring solution and want to add it to the IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.1 catalog OR if you are a business partner who wants to be matched with IBM sales opportunities and develop custom end-to-end monitoring solutions, click the Resources tab at the top of this Web site and then click Business Partners, register and submit IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.1 solutions under Business Partners Access.