IBM Build to Manage Toolkits

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	Build manageability into your solutions Seamlessly enable your solutions with manageability. The IBM® Build to Manage™ Toolkits enable developers, ISVs, and solution providers to apply management standards rapidly, from within existing development platforms, without having to become experts in operations [PDF].  More

The IBM Build to Manage family of toolkits enables you to:

• Make high availability a standard feature. Easily instrument your composite applications with manageability features. The toolkits help your operational management tools consistently deploy, configure, and monitor the health of your application, resulting in minimal interruption.
• Reduce troubleshooting time later -- for your customer and your support staff. Building manageability into your solutions on the front end cuts support needs.
• Build and test your solutions. The toolkits are packaged with a variety of documentation, tutorials, technology, and examples.

• Applies standardized instrumentation to assist with problem isolation and resolution
• Standards-based: Application Response Measurement (ARM), Java Management Extensions (JMX), and Common Base Events (CBE)
• Integrates with the IBM Tivoli® Composite Application Manager family, IBM Tivoli Monitoring, IBM Tivoli Event Console, and the Tivoli OMEGAMON® family

• Helps developers, testers, and support personnel capture knowledge on problems and their root causes while applications are being built, tested and supported
• Standards based: WSDM Event Format (WEF)
• Integrates with Tivoli Monitoring and Service Management products, IBM Rational® Development Platform products, and IBM WebSphere® Application Server-based products

• Assists with implementation of Web services for system management using the Web Services Distributed Management (WSDM) standard
• Offers the potential for heterogeneous resources in widely different IT environments to be managed in a consistent, standards-based manner
• Helps developers and ISVs use and apply the SOA architecture by using Web services for system management
• Standards based: WSDM is a set of specifications defined by an OASIS technical committee that defines standards for Web service-based management of IT resources
• Integrates with Tivoli Monitoring, configuration management database (CMDB), and WebSphere Application Server

• Applies standardized instrumentation to assist with problem isolation and resolution
• Standards-based: Application Response Measurement (ARM) and Common Base Events (CBE)
• Integrates with the Tivoli Composite Application Manager family, Tivoli Monitoring, Tivoli Event Console, and the Tivoli OMEGAMON family

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