Features, advantages and benefits
| Features | Advantages | Benefits |
|---|---|---|
| Single point of control for managing heterogeneous cluster technologies | Ease management of cross-cluster and cross-platform resource dependencies | Improve IT operating efficiency by curtailing manual tasks and maximizing application availability across your enterprise |
| End-to-end recovery of applications spanning heterogeneous and virtual environments | Fast and consistent enterprise-wide restart in place or move capabilities for components or whole applications reducing system outages | Reduces down time of your critical business applications. Maintains system availability in business context. Improves reliability of the IT infrastructure. |
| Automatic start, stop and move of your tiered applications | Takes care of enterprise-wide relationships, start/stop order and required pre and post start/stop actions | Relieves operator from manual command entry. Improves efficiency by reducing operator errors. |
| Resources can be grouped into applications. Grouping can be enterprise-wide | Reduces complexity of operations by automating at the application level, reducing manual intervention and need to remember application components and dependencies | Improves efficiency, reliability and serviceability of the IT Infrastructure enabling a better integration of IT resources with business goals |
| Able to define interdependent resource relationships and associate conditions with resources | Frees operators from remembering application components and relationships. Can use sophisticated knowledge about application components and their relationships to decide corrective actions within the right context. | Reduces operations errors. Improves service levels and optimal IT resource utilization by enabling lower-priority business applications to be shut down while keeping higher-priority business applications running based on business priorities. |
| Policy-based automation | New resources or systems can be added without re-writing scripts | Reduces automation implementation time, and coding and support effort. Leverages manpower through reduced education requirements. No programming skills are required for policy definition. Eases application growth and scaling. |
| Graphical user interface policy editor | Create policies easier with no XML or command line scripting and allows you to quickly visualize dependencies | Lowers the learning curve and enables operators to identify application dependencies quickly |
Business benefits
IBM Tivoli System Automation Application Manager.
Leverage a single point of control to manage high-availability operations and cross-cluster resource dependencies across any combination of System z®, Linux, AIX®, Windows and Solaris platforms. Speed problem resolution and mitigate the impact of service disruptions by using centralized control for all clusters and sysplex environments to help make time-critical decisions that prevent unplanned outages and to better prepare for planned outages, such as routine maintenance.
Page last updated on June 20, 2008.
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