This IBM Redbooks publication is a study guide for the IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center for Data V2.1, and it is meant for those who want to achieve an IBM Certification for this specific product. The IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center for Data V2.1 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 TotalStorage Productivity Center for Data V2.1 product. This book provides a combination of theory and practical experiences necessary 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 useful preparation guide for the exam.

Deploying a storage management solution for a small or medium-size business begins with a thorough analysis of the existing business and IT environment. The next step after fully understanding the organization is planning and sizing. This is the key stage, because deployment success depends on how well you plan and size. This IBM Redbooks publication takes a step-by-step approach to deploying a storage management solution based on IBM Tivoli Storage Manager. The first two chapters introduce overall planning and sizing issues. Then we focus on the detailed installation and configuration of Tivoli Storage Manager, and offer some deployment scenarios and troubleshooting of storage management implementation. Readers should be familiar with the following topics: This book does not cover whole IBM Tivoli Storage Manager components or other discussions for the planning and sizing experience.

This IBM Redbook is a study guide for IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Version 5.3 and is meant for those who want to achieve IBM Certifications for this specific product.

This IBM Redbooks publication provides advice for Business Partners or other technical people about how to plan, implement, and demonstrate IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Version 5.3 in a proof-of-concept simulated environment. This environment can be used to demonstrate the capabilities of the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager solutions using customer data, in order to gain customer acceptance for the next phase of the sell cycle to engage the Business Partner in a real proof-of-concept of IBM Tivoli Storage Manager. 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.

This IBM Redbooks publication will help you install, tailor, and configure the new IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Transaction Performance Version 5.2, which will assist you in determining the business performance of your e-business transactions in terms of responsiveness, performance, and availability. The major enhancement in Version 5.2 is the addition of state-of-the-art industry strength monitoring functions for J2EE applications hosted by WebSphere Application Server or BEA Weblogic. In addition, the architecture of Web Transaction Monitoring (WTP) has been redesigned to provide for even easier deployment, increased scalability, and better performance. Also, the reporting functions has been enhanced by the addition of ETL2s for the Tivoli Enterprise Date Warehouse. This new version of IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Transaction Performance provides all the capabilities of previous versions of IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Transaction Performance, including the Enterprise Transaction Performance (ETP) functions used to add transaction performance monitoring capabilities to the Tivoli Management Environment (with the exception of reporting through Tivoli Decision Support). The reporting functions have been migrated to the Tivoli Enterprise Date Warehouse environment. Please note that the additional material referenced in the text is not available from IBM.