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Welcome to the today ’ s virtual Communications Service Providers user group meeting. We will be starting at 3 minutes past the hour. Thank you for your patience. Global Tivoli Community Announcements. Upcoming CSP Meeting Dates: Oct 18th, 2011.
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Welcome to the today’s virtual Communications Service Providers user group meeting We will be starting at 3 minutes past the hour. Thank you for your patience. Global Tivoli Community Announcements Upcoming CSP Meeting Dates: Oct 18th, 2011 IBM Tivoli Monitoring Fundamentals for Tivoli User Groups User Group: http://www.tivoli-ug.org/groups?groupid=295 Voice Conference: 888-426-6840 Participant code 5209633 Register here: http://bit.ly/n6Qjna WEBCASTS: Visit the TUC Webcast Page at http://www.tivoli-ug.org/webcast and register for some great and upcoming webcasts!
Contacts • Eric Young – IBM • younge@us.ibm.com • Chris Smith – Consolidated Communications • chris.smith@consolidated.com • Rodney Rindels – Viasat/Cricket • rrindels@accuoss .com
Resources • Lotus Live – Thanks IBM! • Portal – http://www.tivoli-ug.org/groups?groupid=295 • Forum – Online Forum and Polls
Meeting Logistics / Format • Introduction to Accelerated Value Program - Sanjay Sekharan • Application Discovery Discussion - TADDM • Network Discovery Overview - what's new in ITNM - AmitRele @ IBM • What tools are others using for these functions? - Group Discussion • How CCI uses them both, how are we integrating them - Chris Smith @ Consolidated • Q/A Roundtable - Group Discussion • Ideas for next presentation
Introduction to Accelerated Value Program • Sanjay Sekharan
TADDM • Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager • http://www-01.ibm.com/software/tivoli/products/taddm/ • Application Dependencies – Discovers applications running on a system and what other systems it connects to locally or over the network • Configuration Management of Applications – monitors changes in application configuration
TADDM • Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager • Some Network Dependencies – will discover some network devices and integrate that into the dependency diagrams • Can be used to generate the model information for TBSM
TADDM • Works by SSH into a system and discovering network based applications using ‘lsof’ • Then builds a diagram based on that information! • You then take applications it discovers and group them into Business Applications – App / DB / Servers – all the components that make up an application. • Then group Applications into a Service
TADDM Business Application – VOD Ingestion
TADDM Business Application – VOD Distribution
TADDM Business Service – Video - includes these Applications and more
TADDM • Are others doing similar functions? • What other products are in use?
ITNM • Amit Rene @ IBM – ITNM Product Manager
ITNM • Are others using other Network Management Applications? • What other applications are in use? • What other applications are interesting in this area?
Consolidated Integrating ITNM and TADDM using DLA Before DLA
Meeting Logistics / Occurrence • Next meeting – Oct 18th, 2011 • Topic: To Be Determined
Got Meeting Topics?Send me an email at chris.smith@consolidated.com or rrindels@accuoss.comon topics you may be interested in learning about. Topics Participate in Members Talk Tivoli at our next meeting! • We are looking for a few members like YOU to share you product experiences, techniques, hints/tips and best practices at an upcoming meeting. • There are 3 ways to participate in Members Talk Tivoli; • You can give a traditional presentation • Be part of a panel discussion • Be interviewed by the user group leader • For additional information and if you are interested in participating, please send me an email at chris.smith@consolidated.com or rrindels@accuoss.com