Tivoli has teamed with HyPerformix, Inc. in providing a new solution for predictive performance and capacity management of production systems. Used in combination with IBM Tivoli Monitoring (ITM) 5.1/6.1, IPS Capacity Manager will forecast performance and model what-if capacity scenarios in minutes across distributed environments, with a forward-looking perspective.

NEW TUGs: Our two newest Tivoli User Groups
1. Tivoli User Group - Mainframe – Brasil
2. Czech & Slovak Tivoli User Group

The first event of the Tivoli Users Group - Mainframe was a success with 58 attendees and lots of good interaction. Thanks to the three customers who presented to the group and helped to make the day a success. The evaluation surveys pointed out that 57 % were satisfied with the event and 43 % very satisfied!!! The group looks forward to meeting again soon.

October 4th saw the launch of a new Tivoli User Group (TUG) in Europe. IBM and Guide Share Europe (GSE) supported the launch of the Czech Republic and Slovakia GSE TUG. The event was one of the best attended first TUG meetings with 34 registered attendees. Key topics for this first meeting were an introduction to TUG community and tips on how to be set up for a successful and long living TUG, the IT Service Management story, updates on IBM Tivoli Monitoring, and updates on the Tivoli Micromuse integration. It was the first new group to be launched as a GSE TUG group as part of the existing working relationship between the Global TUG community and GSE. This group is planning for its next meeting to take place early in 2007.

Check out the TUG meetings
Plan to attend a scheduled TUG meeting near you today.

UPDATES ON TUG MEMBER BENEFITS
1. Free Tivoli Exam Voucher Promotion: A Success
On a recent Tivoli User Group survey, members asked for free Tivoli exams - so we offered them! Over 80 TUG members took advantage of the free Tivoli exam voucher promotion, resulting in over 50 exam vouchers being sent out.

Between September 1 and October 31, 2006 the Tivoli Professional Certification Program offered a free Tivoli exam voucher to all TUG members when a passing score was received on any Tivoli assessment test ($10 USD). TUG members will have until December 31, 2006 to redeem their free exam voucher. The Tivoli Certification team will continue to offer special promotions and discounts to TUG members so please check the Certification Zone for the latest offers.

2. The distribution of FREE Tivoli Training CDs at Tivoli User Group meetings has grown more popular than ever with the addition of 12 new CDs in 2006 for a total of 25 available training CDs. User group members have ordered 2785 CDs in the first 9 months of 2006 - a 216% increase over 2005.

By far the most popular is the CD containing recordings of 12 selected presentations from the Tivoli Technical Users Conference, User Group members have ordered 541 copies of this CD alone. Take advantage of this great opportunity only available to Tivoli User Group members. To order your FREE Tivoli Training CDs, contact your Tivoli User Group Leader.

UPDATES ON GLOBAL TIVOLI USER GROUP (GTUG) COUNCIL REQUIREMENTS
1. Tivoli Education has been a driving requirement for the GTUG council for the past few years. The council continues to see Education as a high priority. We have been working with the Tivoli Education department to make sure that they are offering to meet the market's needs in a timely manner. Recently, we have seen some great strives forward. And so, in response to current customer wishes, IBM is now offering a 2-day classroom course on the ITM 6.1 Universal Agent, including application development for a wide variety of data providers and useful troubleshooting techniques. Search for the course TM85. Remember to check out the FREE Education available to you.

2. Increased frequency and quality of communications on product enhancement requests is another GTUG requirement. With its strong push from the European community, Guide Share Europe (GSE) has stepped up to help all EMEA Tivoli User Groups. GSE offers the leader's of the TUGs the ability to actually input TUG member's product enhancement requirements into the GSE requirements system. This is directly linked to the IBM requirements tool. This unique offering is available free of charge and offers TUG members a fast and efficient route to product managers, and equally important allows members to receive direct responses and updates from the IBM Tivoli Product teams.

Click here to learn more about the GTUG council.

Take 5 minute and take the TUG Member Survey about a possible new web feature on ibm.com!

NEW OFFERING!
TBSM V3.1 now ships with Netcool/RAD V3.0
On Sept. 19, IBM announced: "Combined Packaging of IBM Tivoli Business Systems Manager (TBSM) V3.1 distributed and Netcool/Realtime Active Dashboards (RAD) V3.0". After September 19th, if a customer purchases TBSM V3.1 distributed (program number: 5724-C51), they will receive both the TBSM distributed and RAD products and license to use either one. Also, if a customer is a TBSM V3.1 distributed or RAD license holder, current on maintenance, they are entitled to this package.

IBM Tivoli Unified Process Composer - now available to buy online
ITUP Composer is the product version of the free IBM Tivoli Unified Process Tool (ITUP).
"While there are a number of tools available to help companies map ITIL processes to their IT operations, none have achieved the broad coverage enterprise customers need. The March 2006 release of IBM Tivoli Unified Process (ITUP) 2.0 marks a major advancement in ITIL mapping tools, providing customers with the most comprehensive content available to date. In 3Q06, IBM will release a product version of ITUP that will allow customers to customize ITUP with their own process and tool information.
IBM Tivoli Unified Process: Connecting the Dots, Enterprise Management Associates

Check out the New Product: IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for J2EE
IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for J2EE V6.1 delivers problem determination, reporting, and performance analysis functions that help detect, analyze, and repair Java 2 platform enterprise edition (J2EE) performance and availability issues in production and pre-production environments. It compliments IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for WebSphere by providing application performance management and problem determination for several additional application servers outside of the WebSphere environment, such as BEA WebLogic, JBoss, Oracle, SAP NetWeaver, and Tomcat. New Product: IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for J2EE

Read the archived article from the weekly communication, Tivoli Beat: IT Change Happens. Assess its Impact Ahead of Time

Unlock the value of service management with new ITSM self-assessment tool. This Flash based tool helps you rate and prioritize 30 process areas related to ITSM, then offers best practice insights and solutions.

Tivoli Continuous Data Protection
Ever want to use Tivoli at home? TUG community members can now buy this recently announced product in one simple step while benefiting the TUG website community. A portion of the sales goes right back into the TUG website for continued enhancements. Click here to find out more and help the TUG community.

HINTS and TIPS

A Netcool OMNIbus Primer for Tivoli Enterprise Console Administrators – A White Paper
The acquisition of the Netcool product suite presents several challenges for IBM Tivoli Enterprise Console (TEC) consultants, deployment specialists, and administrators. This white paper is intended to provide people familiar with installation and administration of TEC an overview of the features of OMNIbus and how those features map with similar TEC functionality. This paper is concerned only with the core OMNIbus version 7.1 event server and Webtop version 1.3.1 products and how they relate to TEC 3.9 and the TEC 3.9 Web console.

Download the Netcool OMNIbus Primer for Tivoli Enterprise Console Administrators TODAY.

New white paper: Secure your Linux Environment
Small to midsize businesses can use IBM Tivoli products to develop automated and policy-based solutions to manage identities, protect data and support compliance in a consistent manner across heterogeneous Linux environments.

New white paper: IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center on ROI – White Paper. This white paper helps determine the capital and operational savings an organization can expect from IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center.

Increase IT productivity with technically validated extensions available on-line via OPAL
The IBM Tivoli Open Process Automation Library (OPAL) is a comprehensive on-line catalog that includes more than 300 technically validated extensions developed by IBM Tivoli Business Partners and IBM. OPAL includes services and downloadable system integrations, automation packages, integration adapters, agents and configuration files.

For more News please book mark our TUG News page

Conferences/In- person events/Meetings

Mark your calendars: Tivoli Technical User Conference 2007
May 7-10 at the Hilton Hotel in San Francisco, California
June 11-14 at the Marriott Hotel in Rome, Italy
More information will be posted to the Events page of the TUG site, when available.

Located near San Francisco? – Attend a Compliance event on Nov 8. "Case Studies in Compliance" - "Charting the Course to Compliance". Join IBM at ComplianceWeek's roundtable breakfast conference series, taking place in NYC (October 18), Chicago (October 25) and San Francisco (November 8). They are partnering with some of the key Global System Integrators, such as Unisys in New York, D&T in Chicago, and KPMG in San Francisco. Please plan on attending this complimentary 1/2 day event by visiting: http://www.complianceweek.com/casestudies or calling 1-888-519-9200.

Webcasts/Podcasts

Webcast: “Open for Business – Building Manageability into your infrastructure”
Thursday, November, 2 - 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM (EST)

Think . . . of a partnership between development and operations teams to help eliminate the need to modify applications for management.
Imagine . . . applications with manageability built in to improve deployment and serviceability.
Realize . . . less pain from implementation of management standards.

Education

Save 10% on Selected IBM Tivoli Security Public Classes
Gain the right skills and experience to manage your IT security and save 10%. IBM Tivoli Training has a broad range of classes that enable you to understand, plan, implement, customize and maintain your Tivoli Security infrastructure.

Enroll and attend one of the Security courses listed on the web site below between October 3 and December 27 2006 and receive 10% off the retail price of the class. That’s a savings of up to $249.

Learn more about the IBM Tivoli Security Public Classes, a limited time offer.

FREE IBM Tivoli Training
Did you know that IBM Tivoli Training offers free training every month? Did you know that you only have to visit one web page to find a list of all the training that is currently free? The list is sorted by product and currently lists over 70 free Web Based Training courses, Differences courses and Web Seminars.

Get more details on FREE BM Tivoli Training.

Check the above link and the Education Zone page at least once each month for special offers.

Free IBM Tivoli Training Roadmaps
Not sure which Tivoli course you should take? What about prerequisites or product certification? You need a Skills Roadmap.

IBM Tivoli Training has individual Skills Roadmaps available for a majority of our products. The roadmaps list the prerequisite requirements, classroom courses, Web Based Training courses, certification information and other education (white papers, RedBooks, etc) available for each product. The Roadmaps detail the recommended training path for a variety of job roles.

The Skills Roadmaps are in PDF format and can be downloaded individually or combined in a single compressed file.

List of Scheduled Tivoli Classes Available in the TIE
To make it easier for User Group members to find classroom training available in the United States, we have uploaded a spreadsheet of currently scheduled classes to the Tivoli Information Exchange section of the Tivoli User Group web site. The spreadsheet lists the currently available classes from now through December 2006 and can be sorted by city, state or class title.

To download the spreadsheet of currently scheduled classes go to: http://tie.tivoli-ug.org/list.php If the class you are looking for is not on the list, contact the Americas Tivoli Training Delivery team to make a request. Send your email to: tivamedu@us.ibm .com

For the most up-to-date Tivoli event related information please book mark this page: http://www.tivoli- ug.org/events.php

Issue #10 of the Tivoli Advisor will be live soon. We recommend reading the article "The Best of OPAL (Monitoring Solutions) by Ben Stern, A&BSM Enablement Best Practices". This article provides a summary of some of the key Monitoring Solutions that are available on the IBM Tivoli Open Process Automation Library (OPAL) website and gives a description of some of the most downloaded solutions available today. Also, check out these other articles and more:

1. Tivoli Directory Integrator - "An under- used gem of integration technology"
   by Eddie Hartman, TDI Development team
2. Securing an SOA: Part 2
   by Dr Paul Ashley, Enterprise Integration Solutions
3. ITCM Concurrent login feature
   by Emilio De Angelis – ITCM L3 Technical Leader.

In this edition of the “In Our Own Words” I want to share with you some great news on the roadmap for Tivoli’s Business Service Management (BSM) and also share with you some information about a new company that Tivoli just acquired.

Business Service Management (BSM) Roadmap
As you all know, IBM is in the process of finalizing the product convergence roadmap for IBM and Micromuse products. One of the key areas is Business Service Management (BSM). In this category IBM will be combining Tivoli Business Systems Manager 3.1 with Netcool Real-time Active Dashboards (RAD) 3.0 in a new release called Tivoli Business Service Manager 4.1. The new converged product is entering a beta beginning November of 2006. All the BSM products are being fortified and aligned to provide better products. For more information on the convergence roadmap, refer to the following slides.

Tivoli Acquires DORANA product line
(Wednesday, October 4) IBM announced that it has acquired the DORANA product line and associated assets of Ubiquity Pty Limited. Ubiquity is a privately held company based in Melbourne, Australia.

The technology represented by the DORANA product line will enhance Tivoli Software's IT Service Management (ITSM) software portfolio and accelerate the delivery of asset management capabilities for System z.

As an example of DORANA's capabilities, if a brokerage group is ramping up its use of software resources, the company can spot this well ahead of time, plan for it, and determine when they will approach a contract threshold that will require them to pay for more software. Also, by gathering software inventory and use activity information, a company that just merged with another can discover software that is redundant, link it to associated contract details, and use that information for future buying decisions.

You can find more information about the Dorana products at this URL: http://www.ubiquity.com.au/product s_Dorana.php