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1.5 Managing e-business applications
As we have seen, managing e-business applications requires that basic services
such as communications, messaging, database, and application hosting are
functional and well-behaved. This should be ensured by careful management of
the infrastructural components using Tivoli tools to facilitate monitoring, event
forwarding, automation, console services, and business impact visualization.
However, ensuring the availability and performance of the application
infrastructure is not always enough. Web-based applications are implemented in
order to attract business from customers and business partners who we may or
may not know. Depending on the nature of the ...