We're pleased to make available as a beta Service Health for IBM SmartCloud Provisioning.  As this is a beta we welcome any and all feedback.    Service Health (Beta) for  IBM® SmartCloud Provisioning  provides prebuilt integrations between  IBM SmartCloud Provisioning  and IBM SmartCloud Monitoring.  This solution allows you to easily monitor your IBM SmartCloud Provisioning infrastructure to identify and react to issues in your environment.   This solution is available via the IBM Integrated Service Management Library( ISML ).  You can find... [More]

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In February, the IT industry analyst firm Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) released its first Radar™ for Application Performance Management (APM) for Cloud Services report.    On the heels of our Fall SmartCloud launch, and a highly successful week at Pulse promoting the SmartCloud vision and roadmap,  EMA awarded the IBM Tivoli Application Performance Management solution with its "Best Cloud Vision and Design" award.   IBM scored above the norm on all five axes measured – Architecture & Integration, Functionality,... [More]

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Please join the Tivoli User Community for a live Webcast, Best Practices in Data Center Infrastructure Management with the new IBM and Emerson Network Power Solution ,  on Tuesday, May 21, 2013 at 11:00 AM ET USA. Click Here to Register Now! OVERVIEW: IBM and Emerson Network Power have recently partnered to provide an end-to-end Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) solution. This solution combines Tivoli's IT Service Management expertise with Emerson's real-time infrastructure optimization capabilities, enabling holistic... [More]

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IBM® Tivoli® Service Automation Manager (TSAM) 7.2.2 introduces the concept of extension, a set of TSAM software components that can implement a new IT service automation solution (known as a service definition) or add capabilities to existing service definitions. This article ( Deploy a J2EE app with TSAM extensions ) defines a scenario in which the desired result is to securely deploy a three-tiered enterprise application (a J2EE app) to the cloud. It demonstrates how to set up and provision extensions in TSAM as the first step to... [More]

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Widgets interact with each other using events which is enabled through a publication and subscription mechanism in the dashboard. . To achieve interaction, an event information is passed using a publication and subscription model. A widget is capable to publish (or broadcast) certain events that other interested widgets can subscribe to, and widgets that can subscribe to a particular event knows how to react to it. A widget can both publish and subscribe to events supported by it at the same time.This blog covers the details of all the events... [More]

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 The 2011 IBM Cloud Computing Technical Symposium will take place November 28-30, 2011, at Darmstadt, Germany. Attending this event is a smart and efficient way to catch up on key messages and up to date technical content in just 3 compact days. The symposium agenda offers a choice of more than 150 knowledge-packed technical sessions and hands-on training.  

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Have you ever wanted access to what the development team is planning for the future, along with the ability to provide direct feedback on each item within a planned release? With Tivoli's shift towards transparent development, now you can. Transparent Development is the ongoing, open engagement between IBM development and our users on the development of our products. The emphasis is on being open and transparent about our direction and providing you with open access to key release content, including: Release plans and details... [More]

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Join us on the Tivoli User Community webcast and opportunity for questions, Tuesday, September 25th at 11:00 AM, ET, USA R eserve Your Webcast Seat Now Overview:   While virtualization can produce significant cost savings as a result of reducing infrastructure overhead, it does not address the single-largest cost element for most data centers—the labor to manage this environment—which can be as high as 40 percent of the overall cost. If not controlled, management costs can negate the cost savings realized through virtualization.... [More]

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Are your queries taking an unusually long time to run for the amount of data that you've in your Tivoli Data Warehouse? Do your Cognos based reports take forever to render the screen with some results? There are several tweaks that can be made to the data model and the reports to get optimum performance while running your reports. Some of the best practices to be followed while developing your custom reports and data models are discussed here. Editing the data model using Framework Manager to optimize performance of queries: [Continue... [More]

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There is a new white paper available on the IBM Integrated Service Management Library ( ISML ) that explains how to use Tivoli Storage Manager to back up a VMware virtual machine that was deployed by the Workload Deployer in IBM SmartCloud Provisioning version 2.1.   The white paper explains how to locate, and back up the virtual machine in VMware using IBM Tivoli Storage Manager, and how to restore the virtual machine to the Workload Deployer environment.   The white paper can be downloaded from the  IBM Integrated Service Management Library... [More]

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Determine the right cloud orchestration strategy to address the unique needs and pain points of your organization while increasing productivity and spurring innovation. And learn more about the recently announced orchestration capabilities from IBM that leverage OpenStack to manage heterogeneous hybrid environments. Sign up today!

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The solution Endpoint security for SmartCloud Provisioning v2.1 has been published on IBM Integrated Service Management Library (ISML).   The purpose of Endpoint security for SmartCloud Provisioning v2.1 is to demonstrate how IBM Tivoli Endpoint Manager can be integrated with the IBM SmartCloud Provisioning Infrastructure. Endpoint security for SmartCloud Provisioning will generate the components required by IBM SmartCloud Provisioning 2.1 to automatically install IBM Tivoli Endpoint Manager agents when deploying virtual systems. This will... [More]

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New extensions released for TSAM 7.2.2 extend core capabilities and offer customers •           More secure customer networks •           Faster response, effectiveness and adaptation to Cloud users •           Lower storage costs managing shared virtual file systems Network Extension for Juniper Extends TSAM Network device support with Juniper firewall and F5 Big-IP Load balancer Increases security by creating firewall configuration rules within TSAM Increases resource utilization by setting Load balancer policies... [More]

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How do I find out if my warehouse has all the tables/views needed to run a report or create a custom report? A new set of reports have been added under the folder "Prerequisites Checking" in ITMfVE 7.1 for the VMware VI agent which provide you with a prerequisite scanner that checks if the list of all tables/views needed to run the predefined reports and the ones needed to support custom reporting are available in the Tivoli Data Warehouse. It also checks the VMware VI agent version and lets you know if the available version... [More]

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