IBM Tivoli Monitoring Version 6.2 is a powerful monitoring product from IBM, that is easily customizable and provides real-time and historical data that enables you to quickly diagnose and solve issues through 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 Redbooks publication presents a deployment guide for IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.2. We cover planning, installing, and configuration of IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.2 for small, medium, and large environments. In addition, we provide some case studies, such as IBM Tivoli Monitoring V5.x migration, event management integration, and Agent Builder. Agent Builder is a very powerful tool that you can use to develop your own monitoring agents. In order to show you how this tool can be used in a real life scenario, we have created a 30 minute video that you can launch from the ITSO Web site. We have also added an appendix that discusses IBM Tivoli Monitoring sales engagement planning for Business Partners and Solution Developers. The target audience for this documentation is IT Specialists and Business Partners who will be working on IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.2 implementations and proof of concepts. Please note that the additional material referenced in the text is not available from IBM.

This IBM® Redbooks® publication focuses on migration of a data center from a Tivoli® Framework environment and a Tivoli Configuration Manager-based management model to the new Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), provided by Tivoli Provisioning Manager for Software V 5.1. In addition to migration, we also discuss the coexistence environment, where Tivoli Provisioning Manager for Software drives the Tivoli Management Framework environment. Because Tivoli Provisioning Manager for Software shares its roots with Tivoli Provisioning Manager 5.1, all of the migration scenarios we describe in this book apply to Tivoli Provisioning Manager 5.1, as well. To give you ideas for various migration possibilities, we describe several customer environments and then describe the suggested approach for moving to a Tivoli Provisioning Manager environment. We also tell you how the two environments can coexist during the migration process. We provide a feature-by-feature comparison between common Frameworks, Tivoli Configuration Manager operations, and their equivalent in Tivoli Provisioning Manager. This book is a reference for IT Specialists who implement data center migration from a Tivoli Management Framework and Tivoli Configuration Manager-based management model to Tivoli Provisioning Manager for Software V 5.1 or Tivoli Provisioning Manager V 5.1.

IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager, built on a Service Oriented Architecture, enhances usability for executing changes while keeping server and desktop software compliant. It helps organizations with provisioning, configuration and maintenance of servers and virtual servers, operating systems, middleware, applications, storage and network devices acting as routers, switches, firewalls, and load balancers. This IBM Redbooks publication is a study guide for IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager V5.1 for people who want to get an IBM Professional Certification for this product. The IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager V5.1 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 Provisioning Manager V5.1 product.This book provides a combination of theory and practical experience needed for a general understanding of the subject matter and sample questions that will help in the evaluation of personal progress and provide familiarity with the types of questions in the exam. The chapters are based on the sections of the Tivoli Provisioning Manager V5.1 Implementation Certification test. Studying each chapter will help you prepare for one section of the exam.

Deploying and managing distributed systems in hundreds or thousands of branch banks and retail stores, called outlets, requires careful planning of the automation to cope with the sheer numbers of systems involved. This IBM Redbooks publication demonstrates how to architect, establish, and configure a Tivoli systems management environment that supports the central management of thousands of outlet systems based on the open United Linux platform. The main focus of this book is to provide step-by-step instructions, sample scripts, and code to install and deploy the core Tivoli products that enable the organization to: - Deploy and maintain distributed application solutions This book is intended for IT professionals with a basic understanding of the core Tivoli product set and who are responsible for deploying a Tivoli management infrastructure. Please note that the additional material referenced in the text is not available from IBM.