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Hello Tivoli User Group community member!
This TUG bimonthly newsletter is being sent to you
along with all the registered members of the Tivoli
Global User Group Community. This informative
newsletter keeps you informed of events,
educational offerings (some are free - check out the
Tivoli User Group website), user experiences, software
upgrades, Tivoli software directions and much
more. If you are already a subscriber - THANK YOU!
If you are not a current subscriber and would like
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next Newsletter will be sent out on May 1st, 2006.
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| User Group News | | | Tivoli User Groups in the News
Security Tivoli User Groups
- WELCOME our newest Tivoli User Group
the Southern California Tivoli
Security User Group. We now have 8 Security User
Groups Worldwide.
- Are you a security customer in the upper
Midwest of the United States? Come to the Birds
of a feather session for networking and a Security TUG
discussion. Mark your calendars for the 2006 Tivoli Technical User
Conference.
- The Tivoli Access Manager (TAM) and the
Tivoli Identity Manager (TIM) user groups are
planning a 2 day meeting in Montpellier, France May 11
& 12, 2006. If you are a TAM or TIM user in Europe
please plan to join!
TUG Highlight
- We are very excited about the Bay Area Tivoli user group that is
expanding its focus to include the Storage and Security
products. In fact the group has agreed to setting dates
for their upcoming meetings for the rest of the year.
Security will be meeting the 2nd Tuesday of the 2nd
month of the quarter. Storage will be meeting the 2nd
Wednesday of the 2nd month of the quarter.
Automation will be meeting the 2nd Thursday of the
2nd month of the quarter. By having set dates and the
same time this group hopes to see more of it's members
attend meetings and greater collaboration!
New to the Tivoli User Group website and
community?
We have created 5 quick steps to
getting started with the TUG community that will help
you get on a fast track to effectively use the
website.
Executive Corner
Check out the Executive
Corner where you can hear from Tivoli executives
who want to address your
concerns and share their thoughts about their area of
expertise. Our current executive highlighted is, Hershel
Harris, VP Software Development Tivoli Storage and
Security.
UPDATED: Newsletters and ListServ &
Newsgroups pages
- Did you know that we highlight four different
types of Newsletters on our website?
- Do use the Security ListServ?
See the extensive resources that are available to you
as members in our Newsletter
and ListServ & Newsgroups
pages.
Looking to Network with other TUG members?
Connecting with other members has become a top
priority for the TUG community website! We are offering
three collaboration services to meet your needs: Chat, Peer to Peer Knowledge
Exchange and the Tivoli Information
Exchange. Take 5 minutes and see how these
tools can enhance your networking experience!
Member & Vendor Partnering Zone
A new TUG Zone will soon launch, on March 11th in the
Global Tivoli User Group community site. We are
extremely excited about this new content zone which is
dedicated to increasing the amount of Business Partner
related information available to TUG members. This
zone will give members access to a repository of
vendor information, best practices in the community,
dynamic content, educational and event information.
Members can also collaborate independently with
vendors, develop valuable relationships globally, and
communicate queries directly to vendors.
If you are a business partner who would like to be
included in the new TUGPartnering/Vendor Zone, please
contact us at info@tivoli-ug.org.
Take the current survey today: TUG Member Survey
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| Product News and Tools | | |
NEW Tivoli solutions for the Mid-market to hit
the streets in March!
When it comes to IT solutions that can support their
business goals, midsized businesses can find them in a
bit of a bind. They have the same goals as much larger
organizations: maximum data protection, availability
and security, as well as limited time and resources to
deal with IT management. But they typically have
smaller IT budgets fewer IT resources and less IT staff
available. That's why Tivoli has developed new IT
management solutions specifically for midsized
businesses. The IBM Tivoli Express portfolio
provides easy-to-install, affordable storage, security,
availability, software distribution and inventory IT
management solutions built with practical experience
gained from working with midsized customers, leading
business partners and industry experts.
The new offerings include: Tivoli Storage Manager
Express, Tivoli Identity Manager Express, Tivoli
Monitoring Express, and Tivoli Provisioning Manager
Express
Go to
http://www.ibm.com/software/tivoli/smb to learn
more about these exciting new offerings
and download free trial code.
IBM software needs your input!
As an industry leader, we at IBM know that software is
only as useful as your ability to apply it to your solution
quickly, effectively and on your terms. Whatever your
business, your time, resources and efforts all depend
on your software's effectiveness from the initial
installation and configuration to long-term operations.
Make your consumability priorities known by filling out
IBM's 30-minute Consumability
Assessment, and help us make our software work
better for you and your bottom line. When at the
website please enter the optional invitation code:
TUG.
10th Anniversary - IBM acquired
Tivoli
Ten years ago in March, IBM paid $743M for Tivoli
Systems Inc, an Austin-based software start-up
specializing in systems management software for
distributed client/server networks of PCs.
While the acquisition of Tivoli strengthened IBM's ability
to manage PC-based distributed systems, the company
was looking to the future, recognizing that
revolutionary changes were underway for the industry.
One year later, in 1997, Louis V. Gerstner announced
the debut of a major strategic campaign built around
the IBM-coined term "e-business." The idea behind e-
business was that the networked world -- with the
Internet at its core -- would soon change the way the
world communicates and does business on the
network. IBM had foreseen the switch from the
personal computer to the World Wide Web as the
center of focus for the technology industry.
Today, Tivoli software goes well beyond monitoring
companies' PCs and systems. As IBM predicted years
ago, the network has become the most important area
of focus. With the proliferation of mobile networked
devices and the convergence of VoIP, audio, and video
services delivered over the Internet, companies'
networks are growing increasingly complex. IBM's Tivoli
software unit is now focused on helping companies
manage these sophisticated IT environments and
deliver new network-based and IT management
services to customers, employees and partners.
ITSM Blog on Practical
Insights
Moderated by Jeff Dean, Tivoli's manager of Tivoli's
Unifed Process, this blog is a forum for information and
discussion about implementing IT Service Management
and ITIL best practices. Learn more about the future of
IT and the alignment of IT with Business
processes.
NOW LIVE: Best Practices URL for Tivoli
Availability and BSM products
Check out the A&BSM (Availability &
Business Systems Management) Enablement Best
Practices Website. The new release of IBM Tivoli
Monitoring 6.1 is the foundation for integrating
mainframe systems, distributed systems, applications,
and the Tivoli Enterprise Console by using the Tivoli
Enterprise Portal. This site has been established to
provide best practices information on ITM 6.1 to enable
customers to move forward in their adoption and
deployment of the release.
HINTS and TIPS
For those clients who are interested in implementing
the Tivoli Monitoring for Messaging and Collaboration,
check the Limited Availability patch (LA20) for ITMMC.
Recently we had some significant performance issues
with implementing Domino in AIX environment. After
weeks of problem diagnostics between client and IBM
the root of the problem was identified and LA 20 was
developed by IBM to address the performance and
availability problem. The readme file for LA20 identifies
the nature of the problem.For the more News please book mark our TUG News page
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| Events and Training Information | | |
REGISTER TODAY!
10% discount for all TUG members to attend the
Tivoli Technical User Conference.
- Hilton Hotel in Chicago, IL April 24-27, 2006
($1265 w/discount)
- Le Corum Conference Centre Montpellier, France
May 9-12, 2006 (Euro 1395 w/discount)
To get access to the discount codes please log into
the benefits
page of the TUG website.
Why attend?
More in-depth technical sessions (see examples below)
- Open Labs
- Free certification testing
- 3 Roundtables w/Tivoli Executives
- One on one meetings with executives
- Customer speaker sessions
- Birds of Feather sessions
- Meet the Speaker night - time to network with
the speakers
- Peer to Peer Networking
Tivoli will offer these six tracks with a variety of
technical sessions: IBM IT Service Management,
Business Application Management, Server Network &
Device Management, Security Management, Storage
Management and zSeries Infrastructure
Management.
By attending the TTUC you can attend sessions like
these: (while targeted for inclusion, these may need to
be combined with other topics or be superseded by
more technical content)
Availability Session
ITM 6.1: Deployment, Supportability, Performance,
Best Practices
This session presents the key deployment
requirements, starting with a clean installation of ITM
6.1 and concluding with various aspects of tracing,
debugging, problem solving, and general overview of
supportability.
Security
Monitoring TAMeb - Insights from the real
world
This session will provide an understanding of the
approaches that can be taken to monitor TAMeb and
the things that must be considered when developing a
monitoring solution.
Storage
Data Asset Tools Technical Session, Including
HSM
Hierarchical Storage Management can be described as
a policy-based management system for migrating files
in a way that uses storage devices economically and is
transparent to the user. In this presentation, you will
learn about HSM for Windows, the differences between
Space Management on UNIX and HSM for Windows, and
the steps required to implement HSM for Windows in a
TSM environment. The focus of this session is to show
you how to set up and demonstrate the use of HSM for
Windows, using the GUI and the command line, and
explain the value HSM for Windows can provide to the
customer. Learn about the problems HSM addresses,
how it solves them, and how HSM can be part of a
solution designed for the needs of your
customer.
Check out the complete
list of topic & abstracts and registration
information today!
GTUG Council is seeking YOUR
feedback/input . . . IMPORTANT
Your GTUG council will be having their annual face to
face meeting May 23-25th. In preparation for this
meeting the council is seeking your input in terms of
Tivoli products with any critical situation that you have
had to bring in IBM resources to assist in resolving it. If
you could share those problems and experiences and
how you got those resolved so that others facing the
same issues don't have to spin their wheels to find the
same information the GTUG council would appreciate
it. This could include success stories also not just
problem situations. The GTUG will review all input and
provide a consolidated non identifiable summary of this
information to the community. If you have input please
send an email to gtugcouncil@tivoli-ug.org
Attend an IBM Solution Summit today
The IBM Solution Summits are coming
to a city near you. Beginning in March, IBM will be
taking its new Tivoli Express products on the road, to
preview solutions for the SMB marketplace. Discover
how to improve your business processes, increase
collaboration and productivity and simplify IT Service
Management with solutions that were specifically
developed to fit your mid-sized business
needs.
Upcoming cities: Minneapolis 3/2; Philadelphia
3/7; Des
Moines 3/8; Columbia, SC 3/9; Hollywood, FL 3/9;
Louisville, KY 3/9; Toronto 3/21; Atlanta 3/22;
Columbus OH 3/23; Albany 3/29; Harford 4/4; Waltham
4/5 and more coming . . .
UPCOMING TUG meetings
Many Tivoli User Groups are planning their meetings in
March and April. Check out the schedule in the events page.
For the most up-to-date Tivoli event related
information please book mark this page:
http://www.tivoli-ug.org/events.php.
TRAINING AND
EDUCATION
Tivoli Software Education Web Pages are now RSS
Enabled
At the request of the Global Tivoli User Group Council
we have RSS enabled our web pages. Use the RSS
button on the Education web pages to subscribe
to and automatically receive all Tivoli Education
updates including new and upcoming courses as well as
free offers.
For more information on RSS including how to get
started and a listing of other RSS enabled IBM web
pages, visit the RSS page.
Free IBM Tivoli Support Technical Exchange web
seminars
Extend your technical skills and knowledge of your IBM
Tivoli products by participating in free Tivoli Support
Technical Exchange web seminars (STE). This highly
technical web seminar series is brought to you by IBM
Software Services for Tivoli. STE web seminars cover a
wide variety of technical topics from advanced product
usage to deployment, integration, trouble shooting and
tips and tricks. Only the best subject matter experts
from Tivoli Support, Services, Education and
Development are asked to develop and host these
sessions so you will have ample opportunity to ask
questions or discuss technical issues with the most
knowledgeable experts IBM has to offer. Many new
seminars are offered every month so be sure to look for
topics of interest on a regular basis. Most sessions are
1 to 2 hours in length.
Check out the upcoming STE web seminars.
3 NEW Product Differences Training CDs
The distribution of FREE Product Differences Training
CDs at Tivoli User Group meetings has proven to be
very popular.
Now available to order:
- IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.1
- IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center 2.3
- IBM Tivoli System Automation for z/OS
3.1
To order your FREE Product Differences CDs, contact
your Tivoli User Group Leader.
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Web Seminar Series
Recordings FREE to User Group Members
From May to August of last year Tivoli Education held
13 Web Seminars covering 13 foundation topics for
Tivoli Storage Manager. These Web Seminars proved
wildly popular with over 5000 customers from over 1000
companies attending.
For Tivoli User group members who may have missed
some or all of these Web Seminars, we are making the
recordings of these Web Seminars available FREE on
CD.
To order your FREE IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Web
Seminar CD, contact your Tivoli User Group
Leader.
New Customer Skills Assessment Program
The Customer Skills Advancement Program is geared to
do just what the name implies - to advance the skills of
customers.
The CSAP Team can work with individuals or your entire
Tivoli team - remote or at your site.
The CSAP Team works with each customer to assess
their current Tivoli skills and determine their required
Tivoli skills to then create a Skills Advancement Plan to
fill the gaps identified. The team will also assess
foundational skills required to be successful with Tivoli
products.
There is no charge for this service! Contact: Mike
O'Neal - mikeon@us.ibm.com
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For the most up-to-date TUG Education information
please book mark this page: http://www.tivoli-
ug.org/education.php
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| Tivoli Advisor Newsletter | | | Issue #7 of the Tivoli
Advisor
Newsletter is now available with articles covering:
- IBM's IT Service Management Strategy,
- The CCMDB,
- The Nucleus of the data centre
- Upgrading from DM3.7 to ITM 6.1.
We want to thank the Tivoli Advisor editor team for
including the Tivoli User Group website information
within the related links section of the current issue! Please read the newly release Tivoli Advisor Newsletter today!
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| In our own words - GTUG council | | |
In today's complex and dynamic IT environments,
changes are occurring on a daily basis. In addition, IT
is moving toward automating services and processes as
opposed to individual system components. In order to
manage this ever growing and complex environment,
there needs to be automated means of discovering
these changes and provide audit reports in a
centralized repository. Major systems management
vendors, recognizing the need, are providing solutions
to automate IT service management including auto
discovery of the various configuration items and
associated changes as laid out by ITIL processes. IBM
acquired Collation during the 4th quarter of 2005 to
address auto-discovery and auditing issues. The
following is IBM's plan for integrating Collation with
other Tivoli products.
- Introduce Tivoli Application Dependency
Discovery manager (TADDM) by first quarter 2006
which is primarily rebranding of the product with minor
changes as an stand-alone solution. -
DONE
- Integrate TADDM with CCMDB by June/July
timeframe. Some of the significant changes will be
using Collation GUI to access CCMDB information and
augmentation of CCMDB with additional configuration
items (CIs) that are collected by Collation.
- Until companies are ready to embrace IT service
management solutions including CMDB, the Collation
insignia product can be used to discover, audit and
troubleshoot changes within IT environment, which in
itself provides significant value.
TADDM out of the box has variety of discovery
sensors. The matrix below provides list of those
sensors.
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