Operations Management capabilities

Operations Management is made up of the following products and components:

• IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus
• Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus Web GUI
• IBM Tivoli Netcool/Impact
• IBM Operations Analytics - Log Analysis
• Event Analytics
• Event Search
• IBM Connections Integration

Operations Management leverages real-time alarm and alert analytics, combined with broader historic data analytics. Netcool Operations Insight is powered by the fault management capabilities of IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus and IBM's leading big data technologies within IBM Operations Analytics - Log Analysis, providing powerful event search and historical analysis in a single solution. Operations Management integrates infrastructure and operations management into a single coherent structure across business applications, virtualized servers, network devices and protocols, internet protocols, and security and storage devices, and includes the following capabilities:

The components and capabilities of Operations Management are described below:

Event Analytics

Event Analytics performs statistical analysis of Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus historical event data. You can use the results of seasonal analysis to create network, device, or suppression rules to reduce the number of events, or use the results of related event analysis to deploy Netcool/Impact correlation rules to group events together under a single parent, thereby reducing the number of events that are presented to operators.

Event Search

Event search applies the search and analysis capabilities of Operations Analytics - Log Analysis to events that are monitored and managed by Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus.

IBM Connections Integration

Netcool/Impact enables social collaboration through IBM Connections by automatically providing updates to key stake holders.