Are you still finding answers to questions like:   "I have a product to administer on a server. I want to monitor its health, schedule health checks at a particular interval, receive alerts of the various configuration health on my dashboard, perform configuration on the product. However, I do not have sufficient knowledge to perform long steps of configuration. How do I get started to administer?" The answer to above questions is Administration Services. All you need to do is install Jazz for Service Management on the server you... [More]

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If you're in Vegas this week - Be sure to check out the Pulse Integration Center If not, don't worry - we have some great videos of the Jazz for Service Management demonstrations. The integration center has demonstrations that make use of linked data across a variety of use cases                                                     Dashboarding Service Business Partners ESM Technology & Accuoss built sample dashboards using the JazzSM Dashboarding Service.  We will also show the following dashboard demos: Tivoli IT Ticket Summary Smart... [More]

In this post, I want to cover two topics: the dashboard builder secondary widget menu, and how to adjust the snap to grid feature of the dashboard builder. Have you ever used the "Transparent no title" skin on one of your widgets in the dashboard, then get frustrated because you need to edit that widget again and cannot find the the little triangle for the the widget in the upper right corner of the widget?               The image above shows two widgets.  The widget on the left has the... [More]

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There are several aspects of Jazz for Service Management (i.e. JazzSM) which users need to understand in order to utilize the full potential of this product offering. Here we are going to address the main questions new users come across while working with JazzSM. Also see the index of all the other JazzSM blogs posted under the ITM Agent Insights series at the bottom of the page.   1) What is JazzSM? JazzSM is a bundle of 5 core services: Administration Services Registry Services Reporting Services (Tivoli Common Reporting) Security... [More]

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JazzSM can be installed  using Launchpad as well as using IBM Installation Manger . Given such multiple options, do you have challenges in choosing the right one?   Following table should assist you to the choose right mechanism.   Capabilities Launchpad Full install Launchpad custom install Installation manager UI Installation Manager Silent Target machine has GUI capabilities?     Target machine has doesn’t have UI Capability? Can install DB2 install ? Want to install all JazzSM services?(including Db2) Want to... [More]

Adding your custom content to DASH got even simpler. DASH 3.1.0.3 (JAZZ SM 1.1.0.3) added a feature called myBox. This allows you to add any custom  content like images for background or logo, JSPs, static HTML to your dashboard. Feature myBox is a pre-installed custom space for your web content. After adding your custom content to this space, you can use a well defined URL to add the content on your  dashboard Follow simple steps below 1. Add your custom content to mtBox:  Add your files to <DASH-HOME>\myBox\web_files... [More]

I want to share with the DASH community on how we can approach building some unique custom dashboards in DASH leveraging Netcool/Impact. With the intuitiveness of DASH, combined with the simple out of box integration for Impact we can put together a custom dashboard relatively quick.  One of the challenges that we see across numerous clients is the ability to customize a list of resources. In a typical environment, a user would have a combination of Windows, Linux, and UNIX servers. Within the Tivoli Enterprise Portal we have limited... [More]

What is Dynamic Query Mode? Dynamic Query Mode (DQM) is a new reporting engine in Tivoli Common Reporting 3.1.  It does not replace the ' compatible' reporting engine that's in TCR 2.x, but does offer many benefits over the compatible reporting engine. DQM is a 64-bit reporting engine, so it better utilizes available hardware, resulting in performance improvement with large volumes of data.  DQM also offers key query optimizations to address query complexity and data volumes with improved query execution. It also provides advanced query... [More]

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If I have multiple products deployed in an IT environment, I can use each of them individually. However, solving a problem often requires access to information from multiple products . For example, if I have a problem with a business application, I might need information about which servers and associated hardware and software support that application. I might then want to know details about how those servers are configured, which of them are overloaded, which ones have had recent configuration changes, and if there are error events being... [More]

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The DASH (Dashboard Application Services Hub) component in the UI Services of IBM JazzSM product supports custom dashboarding via drag and drop. This enables customers and business partners to easily create tailored dashboards at their end easily, without any programming and minimal technical knowledge. But many times you may want the widgets to interact each other too, either to other widgets in same page or even another page. In this blog we will see how to do that and a quick peek into how it works.   DASH supports many events for... [More]

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Quite often we get asked from the field on different ways to easily launch external URLs from DASH. In this blog we will discuss about some of the options and look at one particular implementation in detail.   In this particular scenario, a dashboard administrator/page designer wants to launch an external URL (outside DASH, pointing to another IBM or non-IBM product) in response to the user clicking on a row in the list, table or a gauge widget. We will get the context from the widget and pass on to the external URL as query parameters.... [More]

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The next DASH version, scheduled for May 2015 (in JazzSM 1.1.2), includes an enhancement to the Table and Tree Table widgets that allows the page author to format the content of numeric data columns. The following use case scenarios will now be possible : Simple Formatting Format numbers to have 2 decimal places and be right aligned.  Eg: |     20.45| Format numbers to display as an integer, be centered, and include units text.  Eg: |   20 m   | Advanced Conditional Formatting Format numbers to... [More]

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Dashboard Application Service Hub (DASH) is a fascinating advancement we have for our Cloud & Smarter Infrastructure platform. Management and operational users are in dire need of understanding the health and current state of their environment.   Since out-of-the-box dashboards never fully provide everything an organization requires, implementing customization is a priority. Users need to be able to create their dashboards on the fly for pertinent information. To have the capability to pull in data from various sources and... [More]

标签：  dashboarding netcool itm omnibus dash

Jazz for Service Management Administration Services has been creating a buzz these days around easy integration and administration of the IT products and solutions in distributed and remove environments. Administration Services enables you to manage various aspects of these products and solutions in your environment, such as health, configuration, availability, lifecycle, and serviceability. Administration Services has a common and consistent administrative interface that simplifies a wide range of administrative tasks to manage the products... [More]