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Tivoli Integration Scenarios

Name: Tivoli Integration Scenarios
ISBN: 0738435139

by Redbooks Tivoli Integration Scenarios Team IBM, Andre Ricardo Cavalcanti de Araujo, Antonio Orlando Neto, Ayron Dal Pont, Bill J Layne, Bruno Caiado Paranhos Carneiro, Bruno Nogueira Costa, Carlos Alexandre Salgado Penante, Carlos Felipe Franca da Fonseca, Carolina Escribano Sanchez, Datta S Khot, David Kwock, David Stephenson, Diogo Tadeu Silva de Araujo, Douglas Barranqueiros Gomes, Eravimangalath P Naveen, Krishnan Venkitasubramanian, Leucir Marin Junior, Harshini Mariswamy, Johan Raeymaeckers, Marcel Dubiella Ferreira de Oliveira, Marcel Laurenz, Marianne Hardh, Mario Schuerewegen, Miguel Sanders, Murat Kipel, Rishikesh Kumar, Neetha Mangalore, Ozgun Odabasi, Pankaj Pandey, Rafael Risso Moleiro, Sabri Kizanlik, Sandy Cash, Soumyadeep Paul, Tomasz Sekman, Vasfi Gucer, Yatresh K Agarwal

January 2011

Intermediate to advanced

876 pages

20h 21m

English

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Summary of changes
January 2011, Second Edition
Part 1 Introduction
Chapter 1. Integration overview
1.1 Integration overview1.2 Aspects of integration1.3 Product coverage
Chapter 2. Integration scenarios
2.1 Overview of the scenarios2.2 Common elements2.3 Lab configuration

Part 2 Green IT and Energy Management integration scenarios
Chapter 3. Collect, visualize, report on energy and thermal metrics for IT, facilities, property, enterprise assets
3.1 Terminology3.2 Scenario overview3.3 Products involved3.3.1 IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager3.3.2 IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Energy Management3.4 Benefits3.5 Architectural diagram of integration3.6 Implementation steps3.6.1 Installing and configuring the Tivoli Monitoring for Energy Management Active Energy Manager (AEM) agent3.6.2 Installing and configuring Tivoli Monitoring for Energy Management Reporting and Optimization3.6.3 Configuring Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager for collecting Active Energy Manager information3.7 Scenario walk-through3.7.1 Data Center environment3.7.2 Visualizing and reporting energy and thermal metrics3.7.3 Visualizing and reporting energy and thermal metrics using Tivoli Monitoring for Energy Management Reporting and Optimization3.7.4 Visualizing Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager reports based on IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Energy Management3.8 Summary
Chapter 4. Managing business service with energy and environment
4.1 Scenario overview4.2 Products involved4.3 Benefits4.4 Architectural diagram of integration4.5 Implementation steps4.5.1 Prerequisites4.5.2 Discovering IBM Tivoli Energy Management devices in Tivoli Applications Dependency Discovery Manager and creating IdML book4.5.3 Configuring Energy Dashboard at Tivoli Business Manager4.5.4 Importing discovered resources into Tivoli Business Service Manager4.5.5 Integrating Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager BIRT Reports into Tivoli Common Reporting engine of Tivoli Business Manager4.6 Scenario walk-through4.6.1 Visualizing aggregated power and thermal metrics, and launching to reports4.6.2 Viewing energy metrics and health status of resources4.6.3 Launching to additional managed resource information4.6.4 Launching to Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager reports from Tivoli Common Reporting4.7 Summary
Chapter 5. Green IT scenario for Asset Management
5.1 Scenario overview5.2 Products involved5.3 Benefits5.4 High-level implementation steps5.5 Implementing Tivoli Monitoring for Energy Management into Maximo Asset Management for Energy Optimization5.5.1 Configuring IBM Tivoli Integration Composer for data connection5.5.2 Configuring the mapping in Tivoli Monitoring for Energy5.5.3 Configuring Tivoli Maximo Asset Management for Energy Optimization5.5.4 Loading meter information from Tivoli Monitoring for Energy Management into Maximo Asset Management for Energy Optimization5.5.5 Loading temperature metrics data from Tivoli Monitoring for Energy Management into Maximo Asset Management for Energy Optimization5.5.6 Configuring data centers5.5.7 Using data center graphical views5.6 Architectural diagram of integration5.7 Scenario walk-through5.7.1 New assets from strategy to ready5.7.2 Event Management based on Energy Management5.8 Summary
Chapter 6. Tivoli integration scenario for Virtual Infrastructure
6.1 Scenario overview6.2 Products involved6.3 Benefits6.4 Integration architecture6.5 Implementation steps6.5.1 IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Virtual Servers6.5.2 IBM Tivoli Monitoring security integration6.5.3 Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus6.6 Scenario walk-through6.6.1 Creating a service in TADDM that contains a Virtual Center application6.6.2 Checking for existence of service in Tivoli Business Service Manager6.6.3 Showing launch to IBM Tivoli Monitoring and Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager (preconfigured functionality)6.6.4 Creating new virtual machine on the Virtual Center6.6.5 Auto-discovering the virtual machine by using TADDM rediscovery6.6.6 Accepting (adding) virtual machine to existing Virtual Center Application6.6.7 Verifying that virtual machine connects to IBM Tivoli Monitoring server6.6.8 Verifying this virtual machine appears in Tivoli Business Service Manager6.7 Summary
Part 3 Tivoli Integrated Portal integration scenarios
Chapter 7. Operational drill down
7.1 Scenario overview7.2 Products involved7.3 Benefits7.4 Scenario setup7.4.1 Installing products into a single Tivoli Integrated Portal environment7.4.2 Creating a custom dashboard view for network management7.4.3 Integrating products to receive transactions data7.4.4 Creating a custom dashboard view for transaction management7.5 Sample walk-through7.5.1 Scenario for transaction management7.5.2 Scenario for network management7.6 Summary
Chapter 8. Tivoli reporting integration: IBM Tivoli Monitoring and TADDM
8.1 Scenario overview8.2 Products involved8.3 Benefits8.4 Architecture of the integration8.5 Implementation steps8.5.1 Database native client8.5.2 Configuration of the products8.5.3 Databases setup8.5.4 Data sources definition in IBM Tivoli Common Reporting8.5.5 Cross-product model update8.5.6 Package import8.6 Scenario walk-through8.6.1 Integration test8.6.2 Aggregating resources utilization per machine model and manufacturer8.6.3 Aggregating resources utilization per operating system8.7 Online resources8.8 Summary
Chapter 9. Tivoli reporting integration: IBM Tivoli Monitoring and IBM Tivoli Service Request Manager
9.1 Scenario overview9.1.1 Locate and prepare data sources9.1.2 Build the framework model9.1.3 Build and publish the content9.1.4 Other ways of creating reports9.2 Products involved9.3 Benefits9.4 Creating a framework model9.4.1 Creating a Database View9.4.2 Creating a Consolidation View9.4.3 Integrating Tivoli Service Request Manager9.4.4 Publishing the framework model package9.5 Creating reports9.5.1 Server Statistics Chart report9.5.2 Server Incident List report9.5.3 Top Servers with Incident List report9.6 Summary
Chapter 10. Protecting Tivoli Integrated Portal with Tivoli Access Manager for e-business
10.1 Scenario overview and products involved10.2 Benefits10.2.1 Value of Tivoli Access Manager WebSEAL10.2.2 Value of Tivoli Integrated Portal10.2.3 Value to Tivoli Integrated Portal and WebSEAL Integrated Solution10.3 Integrating a Tivoli Integrated Portal environment with IBM Tivoli Access Manager WebSEAL10.3.1 Configuring for integration: Tivoli Integrated Portal10.3.2 Configuring for integration: Tivoli Access Manager WebSEAL10.4 Summary
Chapter 11. WebGUI launch to IBM Tivoli Monitoring
11.1 Scenario description11.2 Products involved11.3 Benefits11.4 Architectural diagram of the integration11.5 Implementation steps11.5.1 Product installations11.5.2 Event integration11.5.3 Event flow check11.5.4 Implementing launch-in-context integration between user consoles11.5.5 Single sign-on option for the products11.6 Scenario walk-through11.7 Summary
Part 4 Cloud computing and Provisioning integration scenarios
Chapter 12. Tivoli Service Automation Manager and Cloud Computing
12.1 Cloud Computing overview12.2 Products involved12.3 Benefits12.4 Scenario overview12.5 Creating the service definition12.5.1 Using the Tivoli Service Automation Manager REST interface12.5.2 Understanding the request creation object12.5.3 Obtaining the resource pool name12.5.4 Obtaining the images list12.5.5 Creating a new catalog request12.5.6 Updating the request with the required information12.6 Monitoring the business service12.6.1 Selecting monitoring agents12.6.2 Configuring Internet Service Monitoring12.6.3 Configuring Transaction Tracking12.7 Triggering automated service delivery12.7.1 Detecting a service event12.7.2 Triggering the service instance request12.8 Summary
Chapter 13. Automated Storage Provisioning
13.1 Scenario overview13.2 Products involved13.3 Benefits13.3.1 Benefits of Automated Provisioning13.3.2 Benefits of Storage Management13.3.3 Benefits of an integrated end-to-end strategy13.4 Integration configuration steps13.4.1 Useful resources13.4.2 Integration prerequisites and roles13.4.3 Configuring Tivoli Storage Productivity Center13.4.4 Configuring Tivoli Provisioning Manager security13.4.5 Defining the server in Tivoli Provisioning Manager13.5 Scenario walk-through13.5.1 Solution architecture13.5.2 Environment prior to end-to-end provisioning workflow13.5.3 Triggering the end-to-end provisioning workflow13.5.4 Viewing the environment after the workflow has completed13.6 Summary
Chapter 14. Tivoli Provisioning Manager discovery of TADDM discovered CIs
14.1 Scenario description14.2 Products involved14.3 Benefits14.4 Implementation steps14.5 Summary
Chapter 15. Tivoli Provisioning Manager and Tivoli Identity Manager integration
15.1 Scenario introduction15.2 Benefits15.3 Products involved15.4 Architecture of the scenario15.5 Implementation of the scenario15.5.1 Tivoli Provisioning Manager automation package15.5.2 Tivoli Identity Manager solution15.5.3 Installing and configuring the Tivoli Identity Manager solution15.5.4 Considerations15.6 Scenario walk-through15.7 Summary
Part 5 IBM Service Management integration scenarios
Chapter 16. Taking automatic actions based on predefined policies
16.1 Scenario overview16.2 Products involved16.3 Benefits16.4 Architectural diagram of the integration16.5 Implementation steps16.5.1 Probe for Tivoli EIF16.5.2 Tivoli Event Synchronization16.5.3 Event forwarding to Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus16.5.4 Creating the mapping table and populating the data in CCMDB16.5.5 Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus additional fields16.5.6 Configuring Tivoli Service Request Manager to initialize application server16.5.7 Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus Gateway for Tivoli Service Request Manager16.5.8 Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus Process Agent control16.5.9 The Tivoli Netcool/Impact project16.5.10 Tivoli Netcool/Impact Enrichment Policy for Incident Ticket16.5.11 CCMDB Web Services16.5.12 Tivoli Netcool/Impact Web Services DSA Policy for RFC16.5.13 Tivoli Netcool/Impact policy for Tivoli Provisioning Manager workflow16.5.14 Tivoli Netcool/Impact event mapping16.5.15 Edit Netcool/OMNIbus event list view16.6 Scenario walk-through16.7 Summary
Chapter 17. Asset and CI integration
17.1 Differences between assets and CIs17.2 Scenario overview and products involved17.3 Benefits17.3.1 The challenge of controlling assets and CIs17.3.2 Integration advantages17.4 Case study: Fictional IBM RedBooks Company A17.4.1 Linking assets to CIs using GUID17.4.2 Importing CIs to the CCMDB using Tivoli Integration Composer17.4.3 Activating the CI types17.4.4 Setting up the actual CI adapter17.4.5 Verifying that the data has been imported into CCMDB17.5 Adding a Configuration Item field in the Asset application17.6 Using a link rule to link assets to CIs17.6.1 Specifying top-level classes for CIs and for IT assets17.6.2 Specifying reconciliation properties17.6.3 Configuring the reconciliation for linking CIs to assets with a link rule17.6.4 Specifying the CI to reconciliation link relationship17.6.5 Creating the action for the escalation for CI-to-asset link17.6.6 Configuring the escalation to link CIs with IT assets17.7 Summary
Chapter 18. Rational Asset Manager and Tivoli Change and Configuration Management Database integration
18.1 Rational Asset Manager18.2 Definitive Media Library18.3 Scenario overview18.4 Products involved18.5 Benefits18.6 Implementation18.6.1 Downloading and installing the integration module18.6.2 Creating a discovery library adapter (DLA) to import in the TADDM18.6.3 Loading the DLA output file into the TADDM18.6.4 Mapping actual CIs from TADDM to CCMDB18.6.5 Activating the CI types18.6.6 Setting up the actual CI adapter18.6.7 Verifying that the data has been imported into CCMDB18.6.8 Creating and configuring the integration module in the CCMDB18.6.9 Creating the Definitive Media Library (DML)18.6.10 Synchronizing the asset from CCMDB with Rational Asset Manager18.7 Summary
Chapter 19. User and password management with Tivoli Identity Manager and Tivoli Service Request Manager
19.1 Scenario overview19.2 Products involved19.3 Benefits19.3.1 Manage Tivoli Service Request Manager users19.3.2 Create Tivoli Service Request Manager service requests19.4 Installation roadmap19.4.1 Installing the integration package19.4.2 Configuring the Tivoli Service Request Manager server19.5 Password change scenario19.6 User management scenario19.7 Summary
Chapter 20. Employee onboarding
20.1 Scenario overview20.2 Products involved20.3 Benefits20.3.1 Paperless activities20.3.2 Speed up productivity20.3.3 Pattern for new hires20.3.4 Increased sense of competence20.3.5 Integrated platform20.4 Roles20.5 Architectural diagram of integration20.6 Implementation steps20.6.1 Human Resource (HR) Manager20.6.2 People Manager20.6.3 Service Desk Analyst20.6.4 IT Asset Manager20.6.5 Additional integration: Enterprise Asset Manager20.6.6 Additional integration: Security Manager20.6.7 Additional integration: Self-service20.6.8 Additional integration: HR informed that employee onboarding is complete20.7 Scenario walk-through20.8 Summary
Chapter 21. TADDM L2 discovery using IBM Tivoli Monitoring agents
21.1 Scenario description21.2 Products involved21.3 Architecture21.4 Benefits21.5 Implementation steps21.6 Scenario walk-through21.6.1 Deploy the TADDM discovery bundle using Tivoli Enterprise Portal21.6.2 View TADDM L2 Discovery data21.7 Summary
Chapter 22. Managing business services in an integrated environment
22.1 Definitions22.1.1 What is a service22.1.2 The service hierarchy22.2 Scenario overview and products involved22.3 Benefits22.4 The Common Data Model22.5 Integration and data transfer methods22.6 Configuring the environment for integration22.6.1 Exporting CIs from TADDM to CCMDB22.6.2 Exporting the service definition from TADDM22.6.3 Launch-in-context integration22.7 Additional integration: Integrating Tivoli System Automation Application Manager with Tivoli Business Service Manager22.8 Summary
Chapter 23. CCMDB V7.2.1: New launch-in-context technology
23.1 Scenario overview and benefits23.2 Components of the new LIC technology23.3 Naming and Reconciliation Service23.4 Context Menu Services23.5 Deployment and configuration of DIS/CMS23.5.1 Deployment components23.5.2 Options for creating the CMS and DIS tables23.5.3 Deployment scenarios23.6 CMS Registry Loader externals23.6.1 Reasons to use CMS Registry Loader23.6.2 Syntax23.6.3 LIC using TADDM23.7 Summary
Part 6 Client integration scenarios
Chapter 24. Tivoli Workload Scheduler: Architecture and concepts
24.1 Components24.1.1 Engine24.1.2 Database24.1.3 The embedded WebSphere Application Server24.1.4 Event Processor24.1.5 Tivoli Dynamic Workload Console24.1.6 Dynamic Workload Broker Component24.2 Network communication24.2.1 Engine initialization24.2.2 Workstation interprocess communication24.2.3 Job execution24.2.4 Event driven workload automation24.2.5 Dynamic scheduling24.2.6 Store-and-forward24.3 High availability24.3.1 DB2: ACR and HADR24.3.2 Fault tolerance24.3.3 Switch Fault Tolerance24.3.4 Switch Manager24.3.5 Switch Event Processor24.4 Virtualization24.4.1 The $MASTER keyword and unixlocl method24.4.2 The mm resolve master24.4.3 FINAL stream
Chapter 25. Tivoli System Automation for Multiplatforms: Concepts
25.1 Overview25.2 Resources25.2.1 Persistent resource attributes25.2.2 Dynamic resource attributes25.3 Resource managers25.4 Resource groups25.4.1 Persistent resource group attributes25.4.2 Dynamic resource group attributes25.4.3 Managed resources25.5 Managed relations25.5.1 Start and stop dependencies25.5.2 Location dependencies25.6 Equivalencies25.6.1 Example25.6.2 Shadow resources and shadow equivalencies25.7 Quorum25.7.1 Tie breaker25.7.2 Critical resource protection25.8 Behavior patterns25.8.1 MonitorCommand25.8.2 StartCommand25.8.3 StopCommand
Chapter 26. Implementing high availability for the Tivoli Workload Scheduler master domain manager
26.1 Overview of the setup26.2 Benefits26.3 Installing DB226.3.1 Creating DB2 instance owner and file systems26.3.2 Installing and upgrading DB226.3.3 Creating DB2 instances26.3.4 Enabling TCP/IP communication26.4 Installing Tivoli Workload Scheduler26.4.1 Creating Tivoli Workload Scheduler user and file systems26.4.2 Installing the Master Domain Manager26.4.3 Configuring HADR and ACR26.4.4 Installing the Backup Master Domain Manager26.5 Installing and configuring Tivoli System Automation for Multiplatforms26.6 Integrating DB2 HADR and Tivoli System Automation for Multiplatforms26.7 Integrating Tivoli Workload Scheduler and Tivoli System Automation for Multiplatforms for high availability26.7.1 The embedded WebSphere Application Server26.7.2 Engine26.7.3 Event Processor26.7.4 Tivoli Dynamic Workload Console26.7.5 Dynamic Workload Broker Component26.8 Testing the policies26.8.1 Plan extension26.8.2 Corrupt Symphony / message files26.8.3 The embedded WebSphere Application Server crash situation26.8.4 Node failure
Chapter 27. Implementing high availability for Tivoli Workload Scheduler dynamic workload
27.1 Overview27.2 Setup27.3 Benefits27.4 Installing Tivoli Workload Scheduler27.5 Installing and configuring Tivoli System Automation for Multiplatforms27.6 Virtualizing dynamic workload27.7 Testing the policies
Appendix A. Additional material
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