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Appendix A. Planning for a client engagement 369

򐂰 IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Databases for DB2, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server,

and Sybase helps simplify the management of your back-end database

infrastructure by monitoring multiple types of database software.

򐂰 IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Applications monitors and manages SAP application

performance and availability. It includes best practice situations and expert

advice for quick problem identification, notification, and correction.

򐂰 IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Cluster Managers monitors cluster manager

resource performance and availability and extends the monitoring and

management capabilities of Tivoli Monitoring to include Microsoft Cluster

Server.

򐂰 IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Virtual Servers centrally monitors server

virtualization, consolidation, resource performance, and availability for Citrix

Access Suite, VMware ESX, and Microsoft Virtual Server for efficient and

cost-effective IT operations.

Analyze solution tasks

After the client agrees to use the solution in their environment, decide on what

effort that you must perform to implement it. These estimates would then be

collected and implemented into a contract or Statement of Work.

We discuss these tasks in detail in “Estimating timings and activities of the

engagement” on page 372. The tasks are our suggested tasks and order; you

may complete the tasks in a different order or may be omitting or adding tasks

depending on the environment to which you implement the solution. The overall

solution timing may be influenced by the amount of skill and experience that you

or your team have on the solution, and also the access to resources facilitated by

your client. The assumption of the estimated timings that we present is typically

based on the following:

򐂰 Knowledge of the operating systems

򐂰 Knowledge of RDBMS and database configuration and management

򐂰 Knowledge of IBM Tivoli Monitoring