IBM Tivoli Business Service Manager

The target system needs to fulfill the following before installing IBM Tivoli Business Service Manager for the Enterprise

Platform requirements

IBM Tivoli Business Service Manager for the Enterprise is supported on the following platforms:

• Sun Microsystems Solaris 9 and 10 (SPARC)
• Red Hat Linux Enterprise Server V4.0, and V5.0
• SLES 9, 10, 11 Intel
• IBM AIX 5.3 and 6.1 POWER System
• Microsoft Windows 2003, 2008 Server
• Microsoft Windows XP Professional (client only)
• Java support
  • IBM Tivoli Business Service Manager for the Enterprise uses version 1.50_06 of the Java plug-in. The plug-in is installed automatically when you install IBM Tivoli Business Service Manager. You do not need to install the Java plug-in separately or configure IBM Tivoli Business Service Manager for the Enterprise to use the appropriate plug-in.
• Web browser support
  IBM Tivoli Business Service Manager for the Enterprise supports these Web browsers:
  • Mozilla Firefox 3.0
  • Internet Explorer V6.0 and V7.0

IBM Tivoli Business Service Manager for the Enterprise will provide support for the following distributed data sources:

• OMNIbus V3.6 and V7.1, and later Probes
  • OMNIbus Probe status event integration will be supported
• IBM Tivoli Monitorng V6.2.1 Distributed Agents
  • IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.2.1 Distributed Agents and monitored re- sources will be discovered by the Tivoli Monitoring Services Discovery Library Adapter
• IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.2.1 status event integration will be supported by the OMNIbus EIF Probe. This support is not agent specific.
• IBM Tivoli Business Service Manager out-of-box configuration provided for discovery and status event flows
• IBM Tivoli Enterprise Console V3.9
  • IBM Tivoli Enterprise Console V3.9 status event integration will be supported by the OMNIbus EIF Probe.
  • This integration will support any source using EIF to forward events to IBM Tivoli Business Service Manager.
  • IBM Tivoli Business Service Manager for the Enterprise out-of-box configuration provided for status event flow
• IBM Tivoli Business Service Manager for the Enterprise will provide support for the following z/OS data sources:
  • OMEGAMON XE V4.1 agents:
    • OMEGAMON XE Distributed Agents and monitored resources will be discovered by the Tivoli Monitoring Services Discovery Library Adapter
    • OMEGAMON XE status event integration will be supported by the OMNIbus EIF Probe. This support is not agent specific.
    • IBM Tivoli Business Service Manager for the Enterprise out-of-box configuration provided for discovery and status event flows

General z/OS Resources

The z/OS Discovery Library Adapter will discover the following z/OS resources and relationships:

• zSeries hardware and z/OS details
• Address Space details and relationships
• DB2 Subsystem details and relationships
• IMS Subsystem details and relationships
• MQ Subsystem details and relationships
• CICS Region details and relationships
• WebSphere Application Server details and relationships

Status event integration for z/OS discovered resources will be supported by the OMNIbus EIF Probe.
Customers may send their own EIF status events to discovered resources.