This IBM Redbooks publication 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.

IBM Tivoli Configuration Manager controls software distribution and asset management inventory in a multiplatform environment. It is designed for configuration, distribution, change, version, and asset management in a distributed computing environment. Working on top of IBM Tivoli Management Framework, IBM Tivoli Configuration Manager provides an integrated solution for managing complex, distributed enterprise environments. This IBM Redbooks publication introduces the IBM Tivoli Configuration Manager logical and physical components and covers detailed planning and implementation steps to deploy IBM Tivoli Configuration Manager in small-to-medium and large-sized environments, including IBM AIX 5L, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and IBM OS/400 systems. In addition, we talk about best practices, advanced customization, and tuning topics for IBM Tivoli Configuration Manager. This book will be useful for IT specialists responsible for implementing IBM Tivoli Configuration Manager V4.2.x in customer environments. Please note that the additional material referenced in the text is not available from IBM.

IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler is a strategic, multiplatform distributed scheduling product that provides high-volume, complex scheduling capability. Although Tivoli Workload Scheduler provides native support for many platforms and applications, its robust scheduling capabilities can be extended to cover additional platforms and applications by writing an extended agent. This IBM Redbooks publication shows how to write a Tivoli Workload Scheduler Version 8.2 extended agent to schedule jobs on IBM Tivoli Storage Manager. With the extended agent, you can schedule on platforms and applications for which Tivoli Workload Scheduler has no native agent, as well as integrate IBM Tivoli Storage Manager with Tivoli Workload Scheduler. The Tivoli Workload Scheduler scheduling facility enables you to assign dependencies among tasks scheduled through Tivoli Storage Manager or to assign limits or priorities. By extending Tivoli Storage Manager to schedule these Tivoli Storage Manager tasks, you can take advantage of its advanced scheduling capabilities. This book will be essential for those who write a Tivoli Workload Scheduler extended agent for any platform in general, or use the extended agent provided in this book (TSM Extended Agent) to schedule Tivoli Storage Manager tasks. Please note that the additional material referenced in the text is not available from IBM.

This IBM Redbooks publication explains the benefits and technical merits of integrating IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler Distributed and IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler for z/OS with other IBM products. Scheduling is a mission critical process for any company. However, when you talk about scheduling, you are really talking about an ecosystem. In this ecosystem, each solution is a building block that adds value to the overall solution. With IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler, you can collect and add data to and from each component. In addition, expanding the scheduling ecosystem to include monitoring, management, help desk, storage, and business systems management provides greater value. Please note that the additional material referenced in the text is not available from IBM.

This IBM Redbooks publication is a study guide for IBM Tivoli Configuration Manager Version 4.2.2 and is aimed at the people who want to get IBM Certifications in this specific product. The IBM Tivoli Configuration Manager 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 Configuration Manager Version 4.2.2 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. Please note that the additional material referenced in the text is not available from IBM.

Scheduling is generally considered as the nucleus of the data center, because the orderly, reliable sequencing and management of process execution is an essential part of IT management. IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler for z/OS is the IBM strategic product used in many large-to-midsized customer environments, responsible for scheduling critical batch applications. Therefore, the performance of Tivoli Workload Scheduler for z/OS is one of the important factors that affect the overall satisfaction from the IT services for these companies. This IBM Redbooks publication covers the techniques that can be used to improve performance of Tivoli Workload Scheduler for z/OS (including end-to-end scheduling). There are many factors that might affect the performance of any subsystem. In this book, we confine ourselves to those things that are internal to Tivoli Workload Scheduler, or can be easily verified and modified, and are likely to apply to the majority of Tivoli Workload Scheduler customer sites. Although this book is aimed at those very large installations with a batch load of 100,000 or more jobs per day, it will also be relevant to installations with a smaller batch workload who are suffering from a shrinking batch window, or those who are trying to maximize the throughput on their existing hardware, or both. Please note that the additional material referenced in the text is not available from IBM.

The beginning of the new century sees the data center with a mix of work, hardware, and operating systems previously undreamed of. Today’s challenge is to manage disparate systems with minimal effort and maximum reliability. People experienced in scheduling traditional host-based batch work must now manage distributed systems, and those working in the distributed environment must take responsibility for work running on the corporate OS/390 system. This IBM Redbooks publication considers how best to provide end-to-end scheduling using IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler Version 8.2, both distributed (previously known as Maestro) and mainframe (previously known as OPC) components. In this book, we provide the information for installing the necessary Tivoli Workload Scheduler 8.2 software components and configuring them to communicate with each other. In addition to technical information, we consider various scenarios that may be encountered in the enterprise and suggest practical solutions. We describe how to manage work and dependencies across both environments using a single point of control. We believe that this book will be a valuable reference for IT specialists who implement end-to-end scheduling with Tivoli Workload Scheduler 8.2.

This IBM Redbooks publication implements a solution that integrates IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler and IBM DB2 Content Manager OnDemand products to provide centralized output processing for job logs (job outputs, message files, and audit files) from IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler and IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler for z/OS. The solution provides immediate benefit by integrating the job logs into an online, electronic information archive and retrieval system, which is used for quick search and problem resolution purposes. We include all scripts that make up this solution so that you will be able customize the solution according to your needs. We anticipate that the solution covered in this book will provide great value for IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler and IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler for z/OS customers who are planning to deploy a centralized job logging and browsing system. Please note that the additional material referenced in the text is not available from IBM.