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IBM® created the Smart Bank showcase to demonstrate to retail banking clients the benefits of IBM products, services, and solutions in addressing their key business issues. The Smart Bank showcase covers different solutions areas such as IT service management, service-oriented architecture, optimization of IT resources, information lifecycle management, information warehouse, and business continuity. The Smart Bank showcase is an implementation of these solutions in a real environment. This IBM Redbooks® publication looks at the infrastructure monitoring and infrastructure management provided by IBM Tivoli® Monitoring V6 and IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager V6.

The IBM Tivoli Monitoring solution is the next generation of the IBM Tivoli family of products that help monitor and manage critical hardware and software in distributed environments. This IBM Redbooks publication provides a practical guide to implementing, using and optimizing IBM Tivoli Monitoring, including best practices for performance tuning, sizing, high availability, scalability, reporting, IBM Change and Configuration Management Database integration and firewall considerations. You will find a great deal of information about IBM Tivoli Universal Agents, including versioning, remote deployment and management, and meta servers. We also delve into details of IBM Tivoli Monitoring of the components, such as how these components interact, what is the underlying technology, details of configuration files, and where to check in case of problems. This book is a reference for IT professionals who implement and use the IBM Tivoli Monitoring solution in large scale environments.

This IBM Redbook is a study guide for IBM Tivoli Monitoring Version 6.1 and is aimed at the people who want to get an IBM Professional Certification for this product. The IBM Tivoli Monitoring Version 6.1 Certification, offered through the Professional Certification Program from IBM, is designed to validate the skills required of technical professionals who work in the implementation of the IBM Tivoli Monitoring Version 6.1 product. This book provides a combination of theory and practical experience needed for a general understanding of the subject matter. It also provides sample questions that will help in the evaluation of personal progress and provide familiarity with the types of questions that will be encountered in the exam. This publication does not replace practical experience, nor is it designed to be a stand-alone guide for any subject. Instead, it is an effective tool that, when combined with education activities and experience, can be a very useful preparation guide for the exam. For your convenience, we structure the chapters based on the sections of the IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.1 Implementation Certification test, such as Planning, Prerequisites, Installation, and so on, so studying each chapter will help you prepare for one section of the exam.

The IBM Tivoli Monitoring Version 6.1 solution is the next generation of the IBM Tivoli family of products that help monitor and manage critical hardware and software in distributed environments. IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.1 has emerged from the best of the IBM Tivoli Monitoring Version 5 and OMEGAMON technologies. Integration of these products creates a unique and comprehensive solution to monitor and manage both z/OS and distributed environments. IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.1 is easily customizable and provides real-time and historical data that enables you to quickly diagnose and solve issues with the new GUI via the IBM Tivoli Enterprise Portal component. This common, flexible, and easy-to-use browser interface helps users to quickly isolate and resolve potential performance problems. This IBM Redbook covers planning, architecture, tuning, implementation, and troubleshooting of IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.1. In addition, we offer scenarios for migration from Distributed Monitoring 3.7, and IBM Tivoli Monitoring 5.X coexistence with IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.1. This book is targeted for IT specialists who will be working on new IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.1 installations on distributed environments or implementing migration from Distributed Monitoring 3.7 or IBM Tivoli Monitoring 5.X coexistence.

IBM Tivoli Monitoring Express Version 6.1 is a powerful, affordable, and easy-to-use availability management solution designed to help small to mid-sized companies manage IT infrastructures. It offers the ability to manage bottlenecks, performance impacts, and outages across heterogeneous environments from a single, centralized portal. IBM Tivoli Monitoring Express V6.1 is easy to install, easy to deploy, and easy to use, providing rapid time to value. It provides real-time and historical data that enables you to quickly diagnose and solve issues with the new GUI through the IBM Tivoli Enterprise Portal component. This IBM Redbook presents a deployment guide for IBM Tivoli Monitoring Express V6.1. We describe planning, installing, and troubleshooting IBM Tivoli Monitoring Express V6.1. In addition, we provide some case studies that you can use as part of a proof of concept or a customer demonstration. The target audience for this book is IT specialists working on new IBM Tivoli Monitoring Express V6.1 installations.

This IBM Redbook focuses on the planning and deployment of IBM Tivoli Monitoring Version 6.1 in small to medium and large environments. The IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.1 solution is the next generation of the IBM Tivoli family of products that help monitor and manage critical hardware and software in distributed environments. IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.1 has emerged from the best of the IBM Tivoli Monitoring V5 and OMEGAMON technologies. Integration of these products makes a unique and comprehensive solution to monitor and manage both z/OS and distributed environments. IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.1 is easily customizable and provides real-time and historical data that enables you to quickly diagnose and solve issues with the new GUI via the IBM Tivoli Enterprise Portal component. This common, flexible, and easy-to-use browser interface helps users to quickly isolate and resolve potential performance problems. The target audience for this book is IT Specialists who will be working on new IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.1 installations.

This IBM Redbook (along with its companion volume, On Demand Operating Environment: Creating Business Flexibility, SG24-6633), provides an insight into the kind of operating environment required to support an On Demand Business. It provides an overview of the architecture of an On Demand Operating Environment and describes in more detail the components that are required to manage the infrastructure. To meet the business needs of being responsive, variable, focused, and resilient, an On Demand Operating Environment must be integrated, autonomic, virtualized, and open. Though these attributes are all interrelated, this redbook focuses on the automation and virtualization components as they enable efficient infrastructure management. This redbook provides descriptions of several approaches that one can choose to start implementing pieces of an On Demand Operating Environment today. Which approach is right for the reader will depend on their specific business environment and their immediate needs.

This IBM Redbook prepares you with the necessary knowledge to help you complete Certification Test 593: IBM Tivoli Monitoring V5.1.1 Implementation . This test leads to certification for Tivoli Certified Deployment Professional for IBM Tivoli Monitoring. The scope of the certification tests your ability to demonstrate the following areas of expertise required for IBM Tivoli Monitoring V5.1.1: Prerequisite knowledge for IBM Tivoli Monitoring Planning the implementation Installation prerequisites The installation process Configuration of the IBM Tivoli Monitoring server Problem determination General operations IBM Tivoli Monitoring Workbench You can find the information that you need about these topics all in this IBM Redbook. Plus, you have a chance to test your knowledge using the sample questions at the back of the book.

This IBM Redbook provides the foundation for establishing an automatic provisioning environment of Web server solutions. The material discussed in this redbook provides detailed information on using the IBM BladeCenter platform as a building block for hosting a highly available, multi-tier application. The redbook also shows how the IBM Director and Remote Deployment Manager software products can be used to automate the deployment of WebSphere software, and demonstrates how these products can be scripted to provide hot-standby and hot-addition of blade servers to running WebSphere clusters.. The additional software components of IBM Web Infrastructure Orchestration are designed to respond dynamically to Web capacity needs and utilization issues. This product bundle, based on the IBM eServer BladeCenter, consists of pre-integrated versions of WebSphere Application Server, DB2, Tivoli Storage Manager, Tivoli Monitoring, and TotalStorage hardware, coordinated by defined business policies and managed by IBM Tivoli Intelligent ThinkDynamic Orchestrator. This redbook is intended for an audience of experienced developers, designers, planners, network specialists, and testers of the software and hardware components listed above.

This IBM Redbook focuses on using the IBM Tivoli Monitoring Workbench to build resource models (RMs) that use existing ILT providers and custom ILT Java providers. You will learn how to create a custom ILT provider using the supplied Java templates to examine and provide data to ITM for analysis within the resource model that you created through the ITM Workbench. The ITM Workbench is used for developing, debugging, and packaging resource models for IBM Tivoli Monitoring. You will learn how to use the step-by-step wizards provided by the ITM Workbench to create RMs to monitor any number of your IT resources, including operating systems, databases, hardware, and networking resources and applications. In addition, you will learn about the Common Information Model (CIM) used to store metrics and how to collect data stored in a CIM format. Upon completion, you will be able to create, test, and deploy monitoring solutions quickly and efficiently in order to create an autonomic environment.