Autonomic Computing

Introduction

To gain a better understanding of the autonomic features of the Tivoli Management Suite, you'll need some background information. IBM's Tivoli software suite consists of an underlying infrastructure containing a growing set of Tivoli and third-party management software applications that can utilize this framework to manage heterogeneous systems and applications in a consistent manner. Tivoli provides a standardized management interface to different operating systems and services. This allows administrators to manage users, systems, databases, networks, and applications from one interface and provides a streamlined way to automate and delegate routine time-consuming tasks.

A corporate IT infrastructure contains a large number of resources ...