IBM Endpoint Manager and MaaS360 have recently been named as leaders in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Client Management Tools and Enterprise Mobility Management respectively for the 3 rd year in a row. This recognition comes at a critical time as the mobile workforce grows exponentially and initiatives like BYOD continue to become embedded in the workplace. IBM Endpoint Manager provides real time visibility and control over all endpoints - from servers to laptops - enabling organizations to find and fix problems in minutes. This... [More]

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Hello World! :) I have had an issue the other days about using the new ILMT 9.x (IBM License Metric Tool) in parallel with IEM for SUA 9.x (IBM Endpoint Manager for Software Use Analysis). Even raised an APAR for it, APAR IV59595, raised to clarify this and add the details in the IEM for SUA's InfoCenter.   Speaking of InfoCenter, I have found this link: http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/tivihelp/v26r1/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.lmt.doc_9.0%2Fcom.ibm.license.mgmt.doc%2Fplaninconf%2Fc_poc_recommendation.html So this states that: "... [More]

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New flash training released for Tivoli Endpoint Manager v 8.2 This module is titled: Manually adding new software titles to the software usage analysis catalog http://ibm.co/12LLWrZ   See all Tivoli IEA content here: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/ieduasst/tivv1r0/index.jsp

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Preparing your Tivoli Endpoint Manager Server for Tivoli Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment installation   To install Tivoli Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment using Tivoli Endpoint Manager you need to prepare a target endpoint to install Tivoli Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment. Tivoli Endpoint Manager takes care of the installation perquisites to be performed on this endpoint as required by Tivoli Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment. This includes database installation. Tivoli Endpoint Manager 8.2 provides two dashboards... [More]

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Recently I needed to pull specific analysis results from my deployment via the REST API.  The only way to do this is using the /api/query ( http://bigfix.me/restapi/?id=306 ).  This meant that I needed to figure out a session relevance statement to do this and quickly.  Since I’m not a native “session relevance speaker”, I looked at my options.  One was to research, research, and more research using very valuable public resources like the Inspectors Guide ( http://support.bigfix.com/inspectors/Fixlet%20Objects_Any.html ),... [More]

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Congratulations to the Endpoint Manager Development and Product Management teams for advancing even further in the leader’s quadrant of the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Client Management Tools.  This year IBM advanced in both the ability to execute and completeness of vision metrics and is now one of only three companies remaining in the leader’s quadrant.  This is a tremendous recognition of the new offerings introduced last year including Endpoint Manager for Mobile Devices and Endpoint Manager for Server Automation,... [More]

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IBM Endpoint Manager V9.0 announced today (March 5 th) at the IBM Pulse conference in Las Vegas.   This version delivers expanded platform coverage, new core capabilities that improve security and simplify programming interfaces, and product enhancements across the Endpoint Manager family. The electronic general availability (eGA) date is March 8 th .   The announcement letter provides complete details on the announcement and a set of PowerPoint charts are also available. IBM Endpoint Manager V9.0 adds new core capabilities and extends its... [More]

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This article will provide helpful direction when you want to distribute software within your organization. I have recently wrote a c# application and want to have it automatically installed across my infrastructure.  When new systems come on-line, I want my application to automatically be installed once it is properly linked into my BigFix infrastructure.  One note to be made when writing your own applications… be sure to properly register your application so you can easily detect that software on your endpoints.  I wrote an... [More]

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When you first setup your Tivoli Endpoint Manager (BigFix) deployment, you will want to enable a few analyses.  These analyses will collect data that can be very helpful when managing your infrastructure as well as troubleshooting and adding customizations. First up is to activate the BES Component Versions analysis…  You can find a shortcut to this under BigFix Management->Deployment Overview Simply Activate this analysis… And the data will start pouring in.  This information will then be read by various dashboards within the... [More]

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Have you ever wanted to measure the quality of your infrastructure?  Perhaps you'd like to know the time it takes for your endpoints to respond to questions and for the data to make it into the database?  Well, now you can.  One of our engineers, Aram, has come up with a simple SQL statement to provide what we are calling "Travel Time".   Travel Time is the average time it takes for all of your endpoints to answer a question, in this case "Last Report Time", and  insert that answer into the database.  Using this value can... [More]

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