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Wiki terms of use
The wiki terms of use page describes the terms and conditions applicable
to all Tivoli wikis.
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26 Jan 2009 |
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Training
Start here to find the tutorials, courses, and certification guides you need to stay up-to-date with Tivoli technology and to keep your skills top notch.
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24 Jun 2005 |
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Tutorials
Start here to find the tutorials, courses, and certification guides you need to stay up-to-date with Tivoli technology and to keep your skills top notch.
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24 Jun 2005 |
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Tivoli support
Search Tivoli self-help resources, submit or track a technical problem, or access documentation to help you learn and troubleshoot.
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28 Jul 2005 |
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Storage management
Tivoli Storage Management solutions enable companies to ensure that they are prepared for unforeseen disasters, maximize the utilization of storage assets, and proactively anticipate and manage the growth of company data.
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30 May 2005 |
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Security
Protect your organization's data from hardware failures and other errors by storing backup and archive copies of data on offline storage.
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30 May 2005 |
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Storage and Optimization
IBM storage management software and IBM storage virtualization software are now combined as a single family - IBM TotalStorage Open Software - providing interoperabily, automation, and flexibility.
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30 May 2005 |
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Provisioning & Orchestration
The IBM Tivoli Provisioning and Orchestration portfolio of applications distributes software reliably and securely and manages the configuration of physical and virtual servers, desktops and notebooks, storage and network devices. It supports the creation and operation of automated workflows to perform these functions on systems and applicatons in a repeatable and dependable manner.
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11 Jun 2007 |
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Products
Find information on specific Tivoli software products, including product-related articles, news, downloads, and forums.
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05 Nov 2004 |
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Orchestration
IBM on demand orchestration and provisioning technology can help you continually evaluate real-time IT resource status, anticipate trends and dynamically deploy or repurpose IT resources based on your business priorities. The results are powerful.
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30 May 2005 |
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New to Tivoli
This area is designed for people new to Tivoli.
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08 Mar 2005 |
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Configuration and Operations Solutions
The IBM Tivoli Configuration and Operations solution is a suite of applications that distributes software reliably and securely, manages the change and control of IT assets, automates workflow through the enterprise and remotely controls systems and applications.
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14 Dec 2005 |
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Business Service Management
IBM Tivoli monitoring solutions collect operational data across the entire organization, enabling companies to monitor system performance, across heterogeneous environments, from a single console."
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30 May 2005 |
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Composite Application Management
This page contains information about Tivoli Application Management solutions.
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30 May 2005 |
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Availability
IBM Tivoli monitoring solutions collect operational data across the entire organization, enabling companies to monitor system performance, across heterogeneous environments, from a single console.
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30 May 2005 |
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dW Download, try, or buy
Curious about which product trials have been most popular during recent years?
Check out the list of top ten downloads available from developerWorks.
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23 Jul 2009 |
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Tivoli downloads
Access Tivoli downloads, including product trials, emerging technologies, updates, fixes, utilities and drivers.
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22 Jul 2005 |
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dW Download, try, or buy
Evaluate key IBM software products in the way that is most convenient for you.
Consider downloading a trial version, registering for a 3-hour test drive, or
playing with a beta version -- the choice is yours. Product evaluations are
available for many products across all the major IBM software brands, including
Rational Application Developer, Lotus Domino, Lotus
Notes, DB2, and WebSphere Application Server. Got questions? Here are a few tips to get
you started.
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23 Jul 2009 |
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Never worry about backup again
Tivoli Continuous Data Protection backs up your files the moment you change them. At only US$35, this low-cost product may be right for you.
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31 Jan 2007 |
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Information roadmaps
This page contains a listing of Tivoli related information roadmaps.
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03 Dec 2007 |
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IBM Tivoli Monitoring
Got questions? Start here, where you will find answers to some common
questions related to IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.2.1 Amazon Machine Image (AMI) on Amazon Web Services (AWS).
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21 Sep 2009 |
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Using ITCAM for SOA to monitor BPM Systems: Part 2: How ITCAM for SOA monitors service-oriented architectures
The metrics collected by ITCAM for SOA are gathered from SCA messages, in this
article, we will analyze the metrics, compare and map metrics to the WebSphere
Dynamic Process Edition (WDPE) and
runtime behaviors. We also explain how to read, understand and analysis the metrics, and how to aware the WDPE applications from the metrics.
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28 Aug 2009 |
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Improve the run-time performance of the Generic Log Adapter, Part 1: A guide to writing efficient rule sets
Data collection is an important aspect of autonomic computing problem determination and self-healing systems. Consequently, a performance bottleneck in data collection slows down the entire operation of the autonomic computing system. It also can be difficult to re-engineer because the data collection components are often built first. This article describes different techniques for writing efficient regular expressions that form the basis for rules in the Generic Log Adapter and discusses various issues with building custom plug-in components. By reducing the performance bottleneck at the lowest levels of granularity, it is possible to improve the run-time performance of the adapter over multiple operational cycles. This article also discusses other factors that might affect adapter performance and provides a guide for when you're designing rule sets and custom components for the Generic Log Adapter.
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22 Jun 2004 |
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IBM WebSphere Developer Technical Journal: Monitoring an IBM WebSphere Extended Deployment environment
The Java Management Extension (JMX) capabilities of IBM WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment and IBM WebSphere Extended Deployment provide the insight required to properly monitor an autonomic environment, to which traditional operational monitoring methods do not apply. This article discusses some interesting operating conditions that are possible in a WebSphere Extended Deployment environment and techniques for obtaining notification of various states.
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19 Apr 2006 |
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Embed the Integrated Solutions Console installation
The Integrated Solutions Console administers different
products using a single Web-based console. This article
focuses on how to use and embed the Integrated Solutions
Console installer. It discusses how to generate a response
file (which provides input parameters to the install
program), how to validate your response file, how to invoke
the installer, and finally how to fix or overcome common
install problems encountered.
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23 Mar 2005 |
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Common Base Event best practices: Getting it right the first time
Take a look at how IBM is getting the basics to autonomic computing technology right the first time as developerWorks highlights the recently released manual, "Best Practices for the Common Base Event and Common Event Infrastructure," taking you through the interesting and the cool.
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11 Apr 2006 |
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Adding rules to applications
Write and run simple business rules or complex inferencing rules using the Agent Building and Learning Environment (ABLE) and its ABLE Rule Language (ARL). Example rulesets show ARL's syntax and capabilities, how to work with Java objects from ARL, how to write and debug rules in Eclipse, how to run rulesets from Java applications, demonstrate procedural and inferencing rule engines, and see the benefits of using rules written for inferencing rule engines.
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15 Feb 2005 |
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Software security for developers: One-time pads
In this installment, Gary and John examine the one-time pad, which, if used properly, is an unbreakable encryption algorithm. The one-time pad has proven popular with spies, and its history predates World War II -- but does it actually make sense for real software applications?
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01 Oct 2000 |
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WSDM for J2EE provides next-generation management
Can the standards for Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) management (JSR 077) and general IT management (WS-Distributed Management) work together to create robust manageability interfaces? In this article, you'll learn how the IBM Autonomic Integrated Development Environment (AIDE) component, the IBM Manageability Endpoint Builder, and the JSR 077 API can be used to build a Web Services Distributed Management (WSDM)-compliant manageability endpoint for Java application servers. The final product is a Web application that you can deploy on any J2EE-compliant application server.
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28 Mar 2006 |
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Performance analysis report on Remote Management Agent and Tivoli Enterprise Console
This article is a performance analysis report for IBM Remote Management Agent Version 1.0, Build 543 (provided with IBM WebSphere Remote Server 5.1.2.1) and IBM Tivoli Enterprise Console Version 3.9 with Fixpak 3.
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15 Mar 2006 |
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Use Ruby on Rails to create an LDAP directory service in Tivoli Directory Server V6.0
In this article, learn
how to use the Net::LDAP library to create an LDAP directory service in the Tivoli
Directory Server V6.0 directory server. Walk through examples to add, modify, search,
and delete a directory entry with the Net::LDAP Ruby library. Create a Ruby on Rails application using Tivoli Directory Server V6.0 as a back-end database.
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28 Apr 2009 |
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Optimize resource usage and reduce costs, Part 3: Use resilient design patterns to reduce total cost of ownership
This is the third article in our series about why and how the IBM intranet portal team implemented WebSphere Extended Deployment to upgrade the IBM internal enterprise application infrastructure. This article discusses design patterns that can help an application achieve autonomic resiliency to protect, optimize, and reconfigure itself, and heal from outages. The authors also discuss a short-circuit pattern to circumvent a deadlock situation, a service availability pattern, and show how to apply a service availability pattern to a sample application.
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14 Feb 2006 |
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Optimize resource usage and reduce costs, Part 2: Migrate your applications to a WebSphere Extended Deployment environment
This article, the second in a series, continues to follow the IBM intranet portal team as they upgrade the IBM internal enterprise applications infrastructure. Migrating WebSphere applications into a WebSphere Extended Deployment environment has several major steps involving server layout, infrastructure building, and capacity and performance testing. This article explains key aspects of moving IBM's internal hosted applications to a WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere Extended Deployment infrastructure.
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31 Jan 2006 |
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Machine learning in network systems
Machine learning is key to building autonomic systems. In this article, the authors present a new network simulator that captures real-world complexities, then introduce learning-based methods for efficient job routing and CPU scheduling in the networks they simulate. Their experimental results show that machine-learning methods outperform heuristic and hand-coded approaches, and that adaptive system components can work better together than they do individually.
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24 Jan 2006 |
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The autonomic computing edge: Autonomic computing: The state of the union
Autonomic computing embodies a progression toward self-managing IT systems. The concept has now been around for a few years, and self-managing autonomic systems are becoming part of the mainstream of the IT industry. This seems like a good time for an autonomic computing "state of the union" address, and it also seems like a good time for The autonomic computing edge to offer up the lighter side of autonomic computing technology. This question and answer article features Otto Nomic, a fictional expert and founder of autonomic computing. Brent Miller (Edge columnist) talks with Otto about how the idea got started.
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17 Jan 2006 |
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Optimize resource usage and reduce costs, Part 1: Strengthen an enterprise intranet using WebSphere
Extended Deployment
Learn how one team, the IBM intranet portal team,
upgraded the IBM internal enterprise applications
infrastructure. This article, the first in a series,
explains the problems to be solved, the proposed solutions,
and how the team uses the features of WebSphere Extended
Deployment to achieve their goals.
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10 Jan 2006 |
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On demand provisioning of portal servers in a clustered environment, Part 3: Deploy lots of portal servers in a snap
This series focuses on how the Advanced Design and Technology team uses IBM Tivoli automation products for rapid deployment of replicated and clustered portal servers. This article explains how to use localization to configure your portal server installation just once, how to create an image of the portal server, and how to install a clone of it on your remaining machines. The authors include scenarios for creating an on demand portal server cluster and rapid deployment of numerous stand-alone portal servers.
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20 Dec 2005 |
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The Autonomic computing edge: The "Standard" way of autonomic computing
Autonomic computing technology is gaining momentum throughout the information technology industry. This article discusses why the standardization of key areas of autonomic computing technology is important, surveys the standards landscape, describes some recent activities and examines standards, both existing and newly developed, that support autonomic computing architecture.
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29 Mar 2005 |
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Craft custom query dialects with Apache Muse
The Apache Muse project provides an implementation of WS-ResourceProperties
(WSRP) that includes support for QueryResourceProperties and XPath queries. The
project also has an API that allows you to add support for your own query languages.
Learn how to add this support using just a little Java code. In addition, review all
of the different filtering options available with the project and see how you can
leverage them in your Muse-based Web-service endpoints.
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26 Jun 2007 |
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Intermediate scalability with the IBM Tivoli Directory Proxy Server
The IBM Tivoli Directory Proxy Server acts as a layer of abstraction over data distributed across multiple directory servers. There are several ways of distributing data across a set of back-end directory servers. This article is intended to highlight the pros and cons of the subtree based distribution of data.
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23 Jul 2007 |
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Extending IBM Tivoli Intelligent Orchestrator with WebSphere Process Choreographer
This article will discuss Business Process Integration, the specific workflow functionality of IBM Tivoli Intelligent ThinkDynamics Orchestrator (ITITO), and how to extend this functionality leveraging the Web Services SOAP interface. The article shall then discuss ITITO workflow invocation using WebSphere Process Choreographer. We will share diagrams and code used to implement a simple process integration exercise between WebSphere Process Choreographer and IBM Tivoli Intelligent ThinkDynamics Orchestrator.
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20 Jun 2004 |
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Installation of IBM Directory Server Web Administration tool into existing WebSphere Application Server V5.0.x
If you have existing WAS 5.0.x on your system and you don't want to install WAS Express which comes with Tivoli Directory Server 5.x, this paper explains how to install webadmin tool in to existing WAS and use webadmin tool instead of having another instance of WAS on your system.
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15 Mar 2004 |
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Setting up Replication in IBM Directory Server 5.1
This article provides step by step instructions on how to set up replication for IBM Directory Server 5.1. After setup, server replication improves the availability of the directory service. The combination of a master and multiple replicated servers ensures that directory data is always available when needed. If any server fails, the directory server continues to be available from another replicated server.
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03 Sep 2004 |
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Intranet Single Sign-On for Windows and Tivoli Access Manager
Microsoft Windows based intranets provide the ability to use desktop credentials to sign-on to intranet infrastructure based on Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS). This is implemented using Microsoft’s SPNEGO HTTP authentication protocol to sign-on using NTLM or Kerberos credentials. Until IBM Tivoli Access Manager for e-business (TAM) 4.1 was released there was no way to achieve the same sign-on to TAM’s WebSEAL web resource authorization engine. With TAM 4.1 this sign-on can be achieved by combining the SPNEGO sign-on capability of TAM Plugin for IIS with e-Community single sign-on capabilities of WebSEAL. This article describes in detail the configuration steps required to make this work.
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01 May 2003 |
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Common Base Event best practices: Properties and elements at a glance
More on the "Best Practices for the Common Base Event and Common Event Infrastructure" guide -- this time, an interactive, at-a-glance properties and elements datasheet that links you to the appropriate section in the guide for more information.
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09 May 2006 |
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Two-Factor Authentication using Tivoli Access Manager WebSEAL
This paper focuses on the implementation of two-factor authentication methods using the Tivoli Access Manager (TAM) WebSEAL product. It aims to provide the reader with an overview of two-factor authentication systems supported within TAM WebSEAL, and presents options for extending the capabilities to include other two-factor authentication systems. It documents the method of implementation of a WebSEAL cross-domain-authentication-service (CDAS) and presents a practical example of implementation using mobile phone Short Message Service (SMS). Within this example, two different configuration options are presented for WebSEAL to support the service, one that implements a token CDAS and another that uses the simple username/password CDAS. In each of these implementations, the advantages and disadvantages of each are presented.
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06 Oct 2005 |
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Access Manager Policy Server Clusters
This paper describes how to use load balancing and clustering to ensure high availability and scalability for the Access Manager Policy Server. This paper includes configuration and coding examples to assist administrators in creating this environment.
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01 Dec 2002 |
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Symptomatic event visualizer, Part 1: Challenges in data collection
This four-part series is a comprehensive usage guide that gives you an
overview of the Log and Trace Analyzer for Java Desktop, instructs you in the
installation process and teaches you to configure the tool correctly. The series
includes performance-enhancing tips, integration and hands-on scenarios, as well as
data on the IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.1 Events Tool. Discover how your data can be more consumable from start to finish and learn how to
reduce your problem determination and maintenance costs. In part one, identify the challenges in data
collection and see how a common event format and a symptom repository help address
those challenges.
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19 Jun 2007 |
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Session management server: Session transitions and state
The session management server (SMS) is a new component of Tivoli® Access Manager for e-business (TAMeb), version 6.0. The SMS provides a broad range of capabilities that change the way Tivoli Access Manager Web security servers (WebSEAL or Web server plug-ins) handle Web-based browser sessions. This paper is to educate you about a session's lifecycle within the SMS by using real-life use cases. You will gain an understanding of what communication takes place between the different products in relation to SMS. This knowledge will give you the confidence to troubleshoot an environment that contains SMS, if problem determination is required.
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25 Jun 2007 |
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Step by step how-to on integrating your application with IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.1
As a customer or business partner looking to hook an application to IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.1, it may seem like a daunting task. But follow our step by step guide, and you'll find that integrating your application to IBM Tivoli Monitoring can be the easiest IBM integration you've done. We will describe scenarios in the Retail industry and steps on how to get the "Ready for IBM Tivoli software" validation.
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28 Jun 2007 |
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Enabling WSDM Advertisement with Apache Muse
One of the most powerful features of the WS-DistributedManagement (WSDM) standard is the Advertisement capability -- it defines a standard for notifications describing the life cycle of a manageable resource. When combined with WS-Notification (WSN), WSDM Advertisement can help solve one of the trickiest problems in a self-managing IT system -- how to "bootstrap" the system by alerting management clients to the manageable resources they should be monitoring. Today this configuration can be done with manual intervention and the hardcoding of resource information, but this does not make for a very adaptable system. In this article, the author will show how manageable resources that are implemented with Apache Muse can take advantage of its WSDM Advertisement features to make startup and discovery a more dynamic and flexible process.
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12 Jun 2007 |
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Three keys to enable a WSDM/Apache Muse metrics reporting system
WS-DistributedManagement (WSDM) is an OASIS standard that defines Web service
interfaces for the most fundamental parts of a manageable resource. Part of the WSDM specification is about metrics, or resource properties whose values are collected over a period of time; examples of Web service metrics might be the number of requests handled per minute, the amount of disk space consumed per day, or the percentage of transactions that failed due to server timeouts. This article explains three important tasks associated with using WSDM metrics -- deciding which of your resource properties should be metrics, leveraging Apache Muse to create metrics, and evaluating metric values from a Web service client.
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05 Jun 2007 |
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Define, configure, and process topics for notification producers
WS-Notification (WSN) is an OASIS standard that describes, among other things, a
system for categorizing the types of notifications that are emitted from a manageable
resource. By grouping notifications into categories, the designer of a resource's Web
service interface makes it much easier for clients to find the data they need while
ignoring data that is irrelevant. The Apache Muse project contains an implementation of
WS-Notification, including all of the topic data structures and processing logic described
in the specification. This article reviews how to define and configure topics for your notification producers, as well as how to process topic-based notifications in your notification consumers.
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29 May 2007 |
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Creating a new portal: Part 6. Administering and maintaining the portal
This last part in the series "Creating a new portal" describes the ongoing support and administration of a portal, including the need for specific team members and their roles. It discusses the skills and training that should be developed before your portal goes live, how to harden the performance of your portal, and issues you might face with the deployment and governance of your production system.
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23 May 2007 |
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Report Data Analyzer: Interpret EWLM performance data
As a workload manager (and not a capacity planning tool), the IBM Enterprise
Workload Manager focuses on real-time data and, thus, only retains performance data
covering the past 24 hours. There was a customer requirement, however, to have this data
available for later analysis. And so, the Data Hardening plug-in was added. This plug-in
allows on-the-fly dumping of performance data onto the file system. But, the
dumped data can't be directly exploited: Enter EWLM Report Data Analyzer.
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15 May 2007 |
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Effective policy design for large deployments of IBM Tivoli Access Manager for Operating System
Effective policy design is critical for large deployments of IBM Tivoli Access Manager for Operating Systems. A large deployment can involve hundreds or thousands of UNIX and Linux systems, each with many resources to secure. This can result in a large and complex set of policy definitions in the IBM Tivoli Access Manager policy database, which has implications on network load, maintenance overhead, and the IBM Tivoli Access Manager for Operating Systems performance. This document looks at the issues and identifies approaches to improve the policy.
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13 Jun 2007 |
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High-availability middleware on Linux, Part 5: High availability of Policy Server using High Availability Cluster Multi-Processing v5.3
The purpose of this article is to summarize the concept and importance of the high availability of Tivoli Access Manager (TAM) policy server. The article also explains the different possible scenarios of configuration using IBM AIX High Availability Cluster Multi-Processing (HACMP) v5.3, the comparison of different choices and step-by-step description of one such scenario , namely IP-address takeover via IP-replacement methodology. The article assumes preliminary knowledge of Tivoli Access Manager for e-business.
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12 Jun 2007 |
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Optimal message processing with WS-Notification filters
WS-Notification (WSN) is an OASIS standard that describes a system for subscribing to and receiving notifications from a manageable resource; these notifications may reference changes in state, fatal errors, status updates, and more. The standard also describes a way of filtering notifications so that clients can specify a subset of a resource's notifications that they are truly interested in. The Apache Muse project contains an implementation of WS-Notification that includes all of the filtering options. This article reviews all of the different filtering options, the positives and negatives of each, and shows you how you can leverage them in your Muse-based Web service endpoints.
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08 May 2007 |
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SSL on ISC, Part 2: Configuring and enabling SSL on the Integrated Solutions Console 5.1/6.0.1
Achieve data security over open communications channels with Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), which provides encryption, certificate-based authentication, and security negotiations. In part one of this three-part series, you learned what SSL is and why you should implement it on your Integrated Solutions Console. In this article, learn step-by-step how to implement SSL on version 5.1 and 6.0.1 of the Integrated Solutions Console.
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01 May 2007 |
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Configuring single sign-on for SAP NetWeaver Application Server Java™ with Tivoli Federated Identity Manager
This article describes how to configure single sign-on (SSO) for SAP NetWeaver Application Server Java with IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager using Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) 1.0.
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21 Mar 2006 |
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IBM Tivoli Access Manager Tracing
Successful problem determination of IBM Tivoli Access Manager for e-business (TAMeb) incidents requires an ability to exploit a number of key tools. IBM Tivoli Software Support usually provides leadership to our customers on which tools to use to further analyse such incidents. This article provides information on one of these tools, TAMeb component tracing, and aims to give the reader some guidance on choosing an appropriate tracing component for problem determination of a specific incident.
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27 Apr 2007 |
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Build a framework for problem determination triage, Part 2
So how do you set up "triage" problem determination? This article describes aspects of event visualization for triage problem determination that use concepts of autonomic computing -- such as Log and Trace Analyzer for Java Desktop (LTA-JD) -- and symptoms to represent, detect, evaluate, and resolve incidents and problems related to business mission-critical infrastructure management and operations. This two-part article also covers event and symptom visualization and processing methods of LTA-JD to enable efficient proactive avoidance of these incidents and problems. In this second part, you'll take a more detailed tour of the framework in action.
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10 Apr 2007 |
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Log files in action: Convert z/OS logs in a snap
Discover how to find z/OS log files and how to convert them to a format useful for autonomic computing components. Before log files can be used for such autonomic computing purposes as problem determination, they must be in a common language (such as the Common Base Event format). Not only can binary-format z/OS logs not be used by autonomic computing systems in their native state, they are often difficult to locate. This article explains how to find and convert z/OS logs to a text format, rendering them useful for autonomic computing components.
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17 Apr 2007 |
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Muse and WEF eases event reporting
The Web Services Distributed Management (WSDM) Event Format (WEF) is an OASIS standard that describes how to serialize events related to systems management in XML. The standard goes into detail about required values, optional values, and the semantics of both, but it offers no instruction for actually implementing the system. Fortunately, the Apache Muse project has an implementation of WEF that lets you create, send, and receive WEF events using a simple Java API. This article shows you how to handle these tasks from within an Apache Muse application.
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03 Apr 2007 |
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Introducing Adapters with Tivoli Directory Integrator 6.1
The Adapter concept is introduced with the IBM Tivoli Directory Integrator (TDI) 6.1 release. This concept provides an alternative way to develop custom connectors for TDI. This article introduces the Adapter concept and illustrates how to develop, distribute and utilize a TDI-based Adapter using the comprehensive steps.
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26 Apr 2007 |
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IBM Tivoli Access Manager for Business Integration and IBM WebSphere MQ Internet pass-thru
The IBM WebSphere MQ Internet pass-thru product is a means for customers to federate their WebSphere MQ infrastructure with partners. The IBM Tivoli Access Manager for Business Integration product provides role-based access control to the WebSphere MQ environment. Whilst there is much documentation on each product, there is no documentation that describes how both products work in the same environment. This article introduces both products and then looks at how they can be used together to provide role-based access control in a federated WebSphere MQ environment. A number of theoretical integration options are presented.
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09 Apr 2007 |
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A practical guide to configuring DB2 UDB Databases for Data Protection with IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Advanced Copy Services
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Advanced Copy Services Version 5.3.3 allows you to protect DB2 UDB multi partition databases distributed across one or more hosts, with the data configured on centralized storage systems in a storage area network. This article helps you configure your multi partition databases and storage subsystems for data protection using Tivoli Storage Manager Advanced Copy Services for DB2.
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26 Apr 2007 |
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Build a framework for problem determination triage
So how do you set up "triage" problem determination? This article describes aspects of event visualization for triage problem determination that use concepts of autonomic computing -- such as Log and Trace Analyzer for Java Desktop (LTA-JD) -- and symptoms to represent, detect, evaluate, and resolve incidents and problems related to business mission-critical infrastructure management and operations. This two-part article also covers event and symptom visualization and processing methods of LTA-JD to enable efficient proactive avoidance of these incidents and problems. In this first part, you'll take a tour of the underlying concepts.
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27 Mar 2007 |
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SSL on ISC, Part 1: What is SSL and why should I care?
Achieve data security over open communications channels with Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), which provides encryption, certificate-based authentication, and security negotiations. This article, part one of a three-part series, describes SSL and explains why you should implement it on your Integrated Solutions Console. In parts two and three, follow a step-by-step guide to learn how to implement SSL on the Integrated Solutions Console versions 5.1 and 6.0.1, respectively.
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20 Mar 2007 |
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Autonomic computing tip: So you are building a WSDM interface
When you're building a Web Services Distributed Management (WSDM)-compliant interface for a manageable resource with Apache Muse, these four simple steps will guide you in designing the necessary Web Services Description Language (WSDL).
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20 Mar 2007 |
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Discover ITDS extended operations with JNDI
This article introduces readers to the world of extended operations in IBM Tivoli Directory Server (ITDS). The article makes users aware of extended operations using examples in the Java Naming and Directory Interface (JNDI).
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26 Apr 2007 |
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Meet the specs: WS-RT 1.0 operations, Part 3
Meet the WS-ResourceTransfer 1.0 initial draft specification, a proposed
open standard that extends certain operations by allowing fragments of XML code in a
single resource to be addressed instead of having to affect the entire resource. This
article provides a closer look at how the WS-ResourceTransfer 1.0 specification handles faults.
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06 Mar 2007 |
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LTA for multievent software problem analysis
Explore a sample symptom catalog and related events that illustrate how the IBM Log and Trace Analyzer (LTA) can help you diagnose software problems when they span multiple systems. This article introduces the LTA and illuminates its problem determination features; discusses symptoms, symptom definitions, events, and the event-symptom relationship; and explains the complexities of multievent symptom management.
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20 Feb 2007 |
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Why open source for the WSDM open standard?
Get an overview of the run time and tooling for Web Services Distributed Management (WSDM) available in the Apache Muse and Eclipse TPTP (Test and Performance Tools Platform) projects. This article is a companion to the tutorial on creating a WSDM interface and also describes the motivation of building this in open source. Learn how you can influence both the development of the run time and the tooling. In this article, I share with you my personal views on why open source is the best avenue to develop implementations of the WSDM open standard.
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13 Feb 2007 |
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Meet the specs: WS-RT 1.0 operations, Part 2
Meet the WS-ResourceTransfer 1.0 initial draft specification, a proposed open standard that extends certain operations by allowing fragments of XML code in a single resource to be addressed instead of having to affect the entire resource. This article provides a closer look at how the WS-ResourceTransfer 1.0 specification extends the Create operation.
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06 Feb 2007 |
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Informix back up with Tivoli Storage Manager: Using OnBar and ontape utility
OnBar and ontape utilities are features and effective tools for back-up and restore operations on Informix databases. TivoliStorage Manager (TSM) is also considered an effective storage management application. Proper combination of these facilities will lead to an optimal strategy and a trusted back-up andrestore framework for Informix database administration. The main motivation of this article is to educate and encourage Informix and TSM users to use the combination and enjoy the features. This document has been prepared in assumption that the readers have basic knowledge of Informix and its underlying operating system. Preferably this document can be used as a pocket handbook for Informix database administrators and system administrators.
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15 Mar 2007 |
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Solutions in action: The installation blues
Get concise tips for solving challenges to using autonomic computing technologies. This installment focuses on installation challenges, including installation problems with the Generic Log Adapter and the Tivoli Change and Configuration Database on Windows servers and a problem getting the remote agent controller to run on z/OS.
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30 Jan 2007 |
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High-availability configurations for local SASP-oriented load balancing
Learn how to enable the Server/Application State Protocol (SASP) protocol to be used in local high-availability load-balancing environments that contain multiple load balancers and a single workload manager. This article explains local high-availability load-balancing environments and describes how existing SASP implementations can be applied. The article also provides an example of this environment using the IBM Enterprise Workload Manager (EWLM) and two Cisco Content Switching Modules (CSM).
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23 Jan 2007 |
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Solutions in action: Answers to four Integrated Solutions Console problems
Get concise tips for solving challenges to using autonomic computing technologies. This installment focuses on the Integrated Solutions Console, including installation and implementation problems on Windows servers, when you experience difficulty setting up the Integrated Solutions Console to manage different machines (with a workaround), and if you have trouble achieving a clean uninstall of the console.
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16 Jan 2007 |
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Meet the experts: Cecilia Ekelin on developing an autonomic automotive architecture
Volvo's Dr. Cecilia Ekelin discusses the DySCAS consortium project and its quest to construct an architecture dedicated to enabling automotive electronics to form autonomous, ad hoc networks.
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03 Jan 2007 |
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Keep your WSDM endpoints trim with Apache Muse
Learn how to use Apache Muse 2.0 to create WS-DistributedManagement (WSDM) interfaces for resource types that have hundreds or thousands of instances. First, this article shows how to create a WSDM interface to represent Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) application resources (which can be quite numerous in any given application server). Second, it shows how to create a "factory" resource that in turn creates the Web application resources as they are installed on the server. Finally, you'll see how to minimize the footprint needed to support a large number of resources so the WSDM endpoint doesn't burden its host.
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12 Dec 2006 |
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Ajax in a network: Security and topology challenges of aggregating content from multiple sites
in an Ajax architecture
There can be challenges when introducing Asynchronous JavaScript and XML
(Ajax) programming techniques into a network environment. This article looks
at security and topology scenarios that you might be trying to solve when
creating Ajax style architectures that aggregate content from multiple sites.
This article explores these scenarios using the IBM Tivoli Access Manager
WebSEAL product in conjunction with the IBM WebSphere Application Server
Feature Pack for Web 2.0 for developing Ajax style architectures for WebSphere
Application Server.
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30 Sep 2009 |
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Solutions in action: Problems installing ISC 6.0
Get concise tips for solving challenges to using autonomic computing technologies. See how version control can cause problems with installing the Integrated Solutions Console and how error log files can be your best friend.
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12 Dec 2006 |
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Tivoli Federated Identity Manager Business Gateway and ASP.NET authentication
In this article we show you how to enable your ASP.NET applications for federated single sign-on utilizing the Tivoli Federated Identity Manager Business Gateway (FIM-BG) and the plug-in it provides for Microsoft® Internet Information Server Version 6 (IIS). Your existing forms-based authentication mechanism can be expanded to include support for participating in a federated single sign-on using the SAML 1.0, 1.1 or 2.0 protocols. Here, we take a sample ASP.NET application through the process of federated single sign-on enablement using FIM-BG and the plug-in for IIS.
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12 Sep 2008 |
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Toward autonomous automotives
Take a detailed look at the Dynamically Self-Configuring Automotive Systems project's plans for a specification to make automobile systems more autonomous and its first product, the whitepaper entitled "A Future Dynamically Reconfigurable Automotive Software System." In this paper, the author outlines some of the project members' objectives to advance the technologies required to build self-configuration aspects into automotive middleware layers and run-time environments.
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05 Dec 2006 |
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Solutions in action: RAC and out-of-box adapters
Get concise tips for solving challenges to using autonomic computing technologies. In this article, uncover a reason why it may be difficult to use out-of-the-box adapters with the Remote Agent Controller. Also, discover what to look for if you have to reinstall an autonomic computing component.
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05 Dec 2006 |
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Meet the specs: WS-RT 1.0 operations, Part One
Meet the WS-ResourceTransfer 1.0 initial draft specification, a proposed open standard that extends certain operations by allowing fragments of XML code in a single resource to be addressed instead of having to affect the entire resource. This article provides a closer look at how the WS-ResourceTransfer 1.0 specification extends the Get operation.
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29 Nov 2006 |
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Enforce resource property semantics with metadata
The WS-ResourceProperties specification defines a standard for declaring strongly-typed properties as part of a Web service interface, but it does not say anything about permissions, validation, and other important topics. Fortunately, the WS-ResourceFramework authors have provided a new specification, WS-ResourceMetadata, that can help you deal with these issues in a standard way. The Apache Muse project provides implementations of both of these specs and lets you associate metadata with your resource properties with just a small XML file. This article describes how to use metadata to secure and validate your properties and how to test different metadata settings.
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24 Apr 2007 |
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Solutions in action: To slash or double backslash
Get concise tips for solving challenges to using autonomic computing technologies. In this article, take a look at how the direction of a simple slash can slow down your work.
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14 Nov 2006 |
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Setting up Tivoli Directory Server replication using the command line
The Web Administration tool that ships with the directory server is the easiest way to setup and manage your replication topology. In some situations administrators might need to set up replication using the command line Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) tools. This article is intended to help administrators to understand the basics of setting up Tivoli Directory Server (TDS) replication using the command line.
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04 Dec 2006 |
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Automate data collection for problem determination, Part 5: Incremental analysis in the AutoPD Tool
In this article, Part 5 of this series on using the Automated Problem Determination (AutoPD) tool, discover a new Incremental Analysis function that replaces the tool's original <infocollect> task. With this new function, the results of several independently specified analysis activities can be combined into a single analysis report, creating an additional flexibility that makes it possible for a script writer to reuse previous analysis targets as is, even if those targets were developed in isolation from each other.
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07 Nov 2006 |
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Build a HAL 9000 with IBM autonomic computing technology
In this article (which could have been titled "2006: An Autonomic Odyssey"), see how HAL 9000, the computer in the "2001: A Space Odyssey" movie, the smartest believable artificial intelligence so far in fiction, could predict equipment failure, answer personal questions, learn to sing "Bicycle built for Two," and go insane, based on IBM Build to Manage Toolkit components. By the end of this article, you'll see how autonomic computing can be implemented today; determine if there is such a thing as a Hofstadter-Moebius loop in programming; and discover if HAL stands for Heuristic ALgorithmic computer, Heuristic Autonomic Learner, or is simply the first three letters of a prankster holiday that occurs about this time of the year.
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31 Oct 2006 |
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Single Sign-On for SAP NetWeaver Application Server ABAP with Tivoli Access Manager
This article describes how to configure single sign-on (SSO) for SAP NetWeaver Application Server ABAP (AS-ABAP) applications by leveraging the SSO solution for IBM Tivoli Access Manager WebSEAL and SAP NetWeaver Application Server Java (AS-Java) in conjunction with the SAP logon ticket. This is achieved without the requirement of visible redirections and the TAM Global Sign-On (GSO) Lockbox.
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12 Jul 2007 |
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Automating WebSEAL junction management
WebSEAL junctions are the configuration construct for specifying the web servers that will be protected in a IBM Tivoli Access Manager for e-Business environment where a reverse-proxy architecture is used. Managing junction definitions is complicated by requirements such as high availability, disaster recovery and configuration migration. This paper introduces a method that simplifies WebSEAL junction management through the use of a central configuration repository and a tool for distributing that configuration.
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09 Nov 2006 |
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Solutions in action: Problem Determination condition errors
Get concise tips for solving challenges to using autonomic computing technologies. In this article, take a look at two ideas to help you overcome common problems with the Problem Determination scenario -- fixing the error condition and when the scenario stops at Inducing Condition.
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24 Oct 2006 |
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The autonomic computing edge: Common Base Event Best Practices
Event-driven systems are an important part of enterprise IT management. The autonomic computing architecture defines an event representation called the Common Base Event that is the basis for the Web Services Distributed Management (WSDM) Event Format (or WEF). As the adoption rate of this event format races forward, IBM found it prudent to generate some best practices for its use; these best practices were published earlier this year. This article offers a perspective on those best practices and discusses their application in IT management systems.
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17 Oct 2006 |
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Solutions in action: GLA mismatching
Get concise tips for solving challenges when using autonomic computing technologies. This week, discover why a user's Generic Log Adapter records don't match up between his development and his run-time environments.
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10 Oct 2006 |
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Doing away with manual, real-time management
Manual real-time management of dense services is both uneconomic and difficult -- there is a critical need for automated end-to-end IT management. In this article, learn those needs, discover IBM's place in the on-demand service culture, and see how automated management forms an important part of an on-demand world and why autonomic computing is a key element to achieve it.
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10 Oct 2006 |
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Configure Tivoli Dynamic Workload Broker and EWLM to produce efficient job dispatching and scheduling
Configure Tivoli Dynamic Workload Broker and Enterprise Workload Manager (EWLM) so they can be used together to provide dynamic job dispatching and scheduling by reviewing general configurations, Tivoli Dynamic Workload Broker/EWLM interactions, and classification methods.
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03 Oct 2006 |
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How to configure the TAMeb 6.0 EAI to implement complex authentication requirements
Tivoli Access Manager for e-business (TAMeb) version 6.0 introduced the external authentication interface (EAI). This TAMeb interface provides another method for providing solutions for complex authentication requirements. This paper discusses how the EAI operates and through an example describes the details of how to configure TAMeb for an EAI application. The source code of the EAI application is available for download.
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16 Oct 2006 |
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