Business benefits
| Features | Advantages | Benefits |
|---|---|---|
| Customizable out of the box resource monitoring | Out of the box outage detection | Fast outage detection reducing operator requirements for manual monitoring |
| Automatic start, stop and move of your applications | Takes care of cluster-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 cluster-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 |
| Reliable and Scalable | Cluster-wide heart-beating and reliable messaging service | Helps faster cluster implementation to enable a more reliable, dynamic automation |
IBM Tivoli System Automation for Multiplatforms
Helps you meet high levels of availability and prevent service disruptions for critical applications and middleware running on heterogeneous platforms and virtualization technologies.
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