Comments for dougmcclure.net http://dougmcclure.net/blog thoughts on business, service and technology operations and management Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:13:52 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 Comment on Bookmarks for July 7th through July 9th by Charley Rich http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CommentsForDougmcclurenet/~3/8nLluW6KV-8/ Charley Rich Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:13:52 +0000 http://dougmcclure.net/blog/?p=2085#comment-71795 I like the statement from the first bookmark above, "The guiding principle is to track all business transactions across all tiers all of the time providing customers with complete visibility and definitive data." We should not turn BTM into yet another silo. I believe that it is the "logical view" that should ultimately cut across or encompass all silos: operational and transactional, distributed and mainframe, and both IT and non-IT. --Charley Rich I like the statement from the first bookmark above, “The guiding principle is to track all business transactions across all tiers all of the time providing customers with complete visibility and definitive data.” We should not turn BTM into yet another silo. I believe that it is the “logical view” that should ultimately cut across or encompass all silos: operational and transactional, distributed and mainframe, and both IT and non-IT.

–Charley Rich

]]> http://dougmcclure.net/blog/2009/07/bookmarks-for-july-7th-through-july-9th/comment-page-1/#comment-71795 Comment on A Couple of TADDM OPAL Gems by Andy Barclay http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CommentsForDougmcclurenet/~3/TJfIkDnehH8/ Andy Barclay Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:16:34 +0000 http://dougmcclure.net/blog/2007/08/a-couple-of-taddm-opal-gems/#comment-71750 TADDM leverages WMI for windows discovery. The DLLs are WMI extensions. I suppose you could call this an "agent", just like you could say that using SNMP to discover a device requires the SNMP "agent" to be available there. Also, you can manually control it. In the collation.properties file, you can set autodeploy=false and then do it yourself. TADDM leverages WMI for windows discovery. The DLLs are WMI extensions.
I suppose you could call this an “agent”, just like you could say that using SNMP to discover a device requires the SNMP “agent” to be available there.

Also, you can manually control it. In the collation.properties file, you can set autodeploy=false and then do it yourself.

]]> http://dougmcclure.net/blog/2007/08/a-couple-of-taddm-opal-gems/comment-page-1/#comment-71750 Comment on Netcool & BMC Remedy/Atrium CMDB Integration by Eddie Hartman http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CommentsForDougmcclurenet/~3/L2DOhpVsD90/ Eddie Hartman Tue, 07 Jul 2009 23:42:48 +0000 http://dougmcclure.net/blog/netcool-bmc-remedy-bmc-atrium-cmdb-integration-references/#comment-71684 You can also use Tivoli Directory Integrator. Forget the name -- TDI can integrate practically anything, and it is IBM's official ISM glue. TDI is bundled with TADDM, TSRM and CCMDB, and is used for integration with 3rd party systems like Remedy and Peregrine, as well as Netcool/Omnibus, ITM, TCM, TBSM, ... And you can roll your own Connector in a matter of minutes if you understand the Java api you will be using, or the commandline calls needed, or SOAP/REST/web service interface. You can also use Tivoli Directory Integrator. Forget the name — TDI can integrate practically anything, and it is IBM’s official ISM glue. TDI is bundled with TADDM, TSRM and CCMDB, and is used for integration with 3rd party systems like Remedy and Peregrine, as well as Netcool/Omnibus, ITM, TCM, TBSM, … And you can roll your own Connector in a matter of minutes if you understand the Java api you will be using, or the commandline calls needed, or SOAP/REST/web service interface.

]]> http://dougmcclure.net/blog/tivoli-references/netcool-bmc-remedy-bmc-atrium-cmdb-integration-references/comment-page-1/#comment-71684 Comment on Integrating Business Transaction Management (BTM) into Business Service Management (BSM) by doug http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CommentsForDougmcclurenet/~3/id1V4CHKGwQ/ doug Tue, 07 Jul 2009 21:19:06 +0000 http://dougmcclure.net/blog/?p=2068#comment-71680 @Charley Rich - absolutely, I've spoken on that topic many times on my blog. The entire B-I-N-G-O alphabet soup of B** acronyms need to converge, integrate, consolidate, etc. This is key to the next generation operations center - the Business Operations Center if you will where we'll see Service Management for IT, Service Management for Facilities/Infrastructure and Service Management for Business Process/Performance all converge. Imagine that!! This is the *ONLY* way for large, legacy enterprises to think about becoming more dynamic, smarter and lean for their future survival and have any chance of staying on top of technology and business change! Thoughts? Doug @Charley Rich – absolutely, I’ve spoken on that topic many times on my blog. The entire B-I-N-G-O alphabet soup of B** acronyms need to converge, integrate, consolidate, etc.

This is key to the next generation operations center – the Business Operations Center if you will where we’ll see Service Management for IT, Service Management for Facilities/Infrastructure and Service Management for Business Process/Performance all converge. Imagine that!!

This is the *ONLY* way for large, legacy enterprises to think about becoming more dynamic, smarter and lean for their future survival and have any chance of staying on top of technology and business change!

Thoughts?

Doug

]]> http://dougmcclure.net/blog/2009/07/integrating-business-transaction-management-btm-into-business-service-management-bsm/comment-page-1/#comment-71680 Comment on Integrating Business Transaction Management (BTM) into Business Service Management (BSM) by Charley Rich http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CommentsForDougmcclurenet/~3/QytiH6vxevs/ Charley Rich Tue, 07 Jul 2009 20:26:00 +0000 http://dougmcclure.net/blog/?p=2068#comment-71677 I agree with your thoughts that BTM and BSM will merge. I also see the need for a merge with BAM. While BAM does not have the tightest, universally accepted definition, I use it in the sense of measuring non-IT activities such as market volume, number of widgets produced, profitability of the order to cash cycle, or even something like a Sales forecast. I believe that this type of non-IT metric or KPI should be correlated with the performance of business transactions in order to truly determine if improving transaction performance affected business performance. I agree with your thoughts that BTM and BSM will merge. I also see the need for a merge with BAM. While BAM does not have the tightest, universally accepted definition, I use it in the sense of measuring non-IT activities such as market volume, number of widgets produced, profitability of the order to cash cycle, or even something like a Sales forecast. I believe that this type of non-IT metric or KPI should be correlated with the performance of business transactions in order to truly determine if improving transaction performance affected business performance.

]]> http://dougmcclure.net/blog/2009/07/integrating-business-transaction-management-btm-into-business-service-management-bsm/comment-page-1/#comment-71677 Comment on Integrating Business Transaction Management (BTM) into Business Service Management (BSM) by Steve Burton http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CommentsForDougmcclurenet/~3/xsOxpvHMq7A/ Steve Burton Tue, 07 Jul 2009 03:14:51 +0000 http://dougmcclure.net/blog/?p=2068#comment-71663 I think its a given that you'll see consolidation and integration between user, application, transaction and server mgmt solutions. Why do customers need to buy 4 products when you can present all the relevant metrics from each and provide a single comprehensive end to end view? I would add network and storage mgmt products to the equation also. Disk i/o plays a major part in latency these days, discs are getting bigger but response times are not getting any faster for retrieving data. Not all data lives in databases so storage mgmtcan play a key role in BSM. I think its a given that you’ll see consolidation and integration between user, application, transaction and server mgmt solutions. Why do customers need to buy 4 products when you can present all the relevant metrics from each and provide a single comprehensive end to end view? I would add network and storage mgmt products to the equation also. Disk i/o plays a major part in latency these days, discs are getting bigger but response times are not getting any faster for retrieving data. Not all data lives in databases so storage mgmtcan play a key role in BSM.

]]> http://dougmcclure.net/blog/2009/07/integrating-business-transaction-management-btm-into-business-service-management-bsm/comment-page-1/#comment-71663 Comment on Integrating Business Transaction Management (BTM) into Business Service Management (BSM) by Dhruv Gupta http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CommentsForDougmcclurenet/~3/qN2YBtMkpAk/ Dhruv Gupta Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:06:15 +0000 http://dougmcclure.net/blog/?p=2068#comment-71659 We second your thoughts that business transaction management is a growing concern for today's increasingly complex environments. We've seen a growing number of customers rely on business transaction management, as I've described in my blog at http://blogs.amberpoint.com We second your thoughts that business transaction management
is a growing concern for today’s increasingly complex environments. We’ve seen a growing number of customers rely on business transaction management, as I’ve described in my blog at http://blogs.amberpoint.com

]]> http://dougmcclure.net/blog/2009/07/integrating-business-transaction-management-btm-into-business-service-management-bsm/comment-page-1/#comment-71659 Comment on Business Transaction Management by ITCAM for Transactions and TBSM Integration http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CommentsForDougmcclurenet/~3/KEuroSiDnlQ/ ITCAM for Transactions and TBSM Integration Mon, 06 Jul 2009 14:55:32 +0000 http://dougmcclure.net/blog/?page_id=1097#comment-71637 [...] The ITCAM for Transactions v7.x product and broader ITCAM family provides industry leading depth and breadth across any large enterprise IT environment. I haven’t come across anyone’s portfolio that covers more than what Tivoli’s does today. The “manager of managers (MoM)” concept that we’ve had tremendous success with in the event management space is similarly replicated with the ITCAM for Transactions v7 product’s ability to consume, consolidate and stitch together complex transaction level information across a multitude of technology domains and IT organization silos. For more insight into BTM, check out some of the information and podcasts available here. [...] [...] The ITCAM for Transactions v7.x product and broader ITCAM family provides industry leading depth and breadth across any large enterprise IT environment. I haven’t come across anyone’s portfolio that covers more than what Tivoli’s does today. The “manager of managers (MoM)” concept that we’ve had tremendous success with in the event management space is similarly replicated with the ITCAM for Transactions v7 product’s ability to consume, consolidate and stitch together complex transaction level information across a multitude of technology domains and IT organization silos. For more insight into BTM, check out some of the information and podcasts available here. [...]

]]> http://dougmcclure.net/blog/business-transaction-management/comment-page-1/#comment-71637 Comment on Bookmarks for June 17th through June 29th by Raj http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CommentsForDougmcclurenet/~3/hyrpHfWyQWI/ Raj Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:00:27 +0000 http://dougmcclure.net/blog/?p=2053#comment-71523 Can you elaborate on Simple Event Management Protocol (SEMP) , is IBM Cloud Platform using SEMP or have you come across any other cloud providers providing these kind of events. At this point SEMP (opensemp.org) seems like a sketch idea? Is this supported by any standards body? Most of the cloud service status dashboards like Google App Status or Salesforce Status are high level service availability views, I would be interested in seeing how they assimilate those views based on services running on internal and external cloud. Your thoughts? Can you elaborate on Simple Event Management Protocol (SEMP) , is IBM Cloud Platform using SEMP or have you come across any other cloud providers providing these kind of events. At this point SEMP (opensemp.org) seems like a sketch idea? Is this supported by any standards body?

Most of the cloud service status dashboards like Google App Status or Salesforce Status are high level service availability views, I would be interested in seeing how they assimilate those views based on services running on internal and external cloud.

Your thoughts?

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