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Greetings!
This newsletter is sent to you on behalf of the Global
Tivoli User Group (GTUG) council and as a registered
member of the Tivoli Global User Group Community.
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| TUG Website News and Stats | | | Tivoli User Group Community: We are growing!
We started out the year with 58 Tivoli User Groups and
after only three months we have added seven new
groups.
Please welcome and check out the new TUGs that have
joined the Tivoli User Group community.
Tivoli Netview Global User Group
TDS/390 Global User Group
Atlanta Tivoli User Group
Florida Tivoli User Group
Central Ohio TSM User Group
NY/NJ Metro Area Tivoli Security User Group
Romania Tivoli User Group. TUG Highlight Corner
The Tivoli Tri-State User Group has added a little fun
and games to their last meeting by playing the Tivoli
Pursuit game. The objective is to have fun testing your
knowledge of the use and implementation of the Tivoli
products. The creator of the game, Tom Moore, of the
Tivoli Tri-State User Group, has indicated that the
group really liked playing the game and just had it's
second trivia game at their meeting earlier this month..
If you are a TUG leaders you can check out the details
of this game by logging into the leader's section of the
website.
HOT News
Tivoli is sponsoring a Tivoli Technical User Conference
in Las Vegas, NV August 30 - September 2. Call for
speakers is going on now until May 26th. Customers
whose abstracts are accepted and approved will be
offered one FREE admission into the conference. Please submit your abstracts TODAY by filling out this form! | | |
| Helpful Tips | | | Tivoli Support - Find more help when you need
it! Education now available for getting the most from
IBM Online Software Support. To help customers with
their questions, training and even improving their
search results online, a complete presentation with
detailed speaker notes is available for all the questions
you have about online support. Learn how to get
email notifications for the products you are interested
in, or how to personalize what you see on a single
view. Find detail on education, delivered through
conference calls, by the engineers who support you in
the Site Technical Exchange. Help everyone in your IT
team, get more from IBM's Online support tools. To
access this presentation you will find it in the User
Group Resources under the Public Presentations: http://www.tivoli-
ug.org/slides.php Some bugs on latest releases of Tivoli products
- Configuration Manager 4.2.1 (Inventory) -
APARS IY54509(wscanner not running to completion)
and IY54553(spawning of multiple wscanners)
- TEC 3.9 - TEC logfile adapter is filling up with
the /tmp filesystem. Adapter's logfile is continually
getting larger
- Framework 4.1.1 - excessive ports held by lcfd in
close_wait state, being researched by level 3
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| 10 commandments of systems management by Simon Close from UK TUG | | | The Ten Commandments of Systems
Management
- Thou shalt not be reactive
- Thou shalt seek executive sponsorship
- Thou shalt not take the name of Systems
Management in vain
- Thou shalt not consider technology to be
enough
- Thou shalt not steal; but rather share ideas with
the user community
- Thou shalt keep software current and have a
proven patch strategy
- Thou shalt build a team of dedicated, passionate
and committed disciples
- Thou shalt not keep quiet; but exploit and sell
- Thou shalt not enforce a 'one size fits' all policy
- Thou shalt not kill your Tivoli account team
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| IBM to acquire Candle Corp., software firm | | | IBM says it has agreed to acquire Candle Corporation, a
privately held software and consulting company based
in El Segundo, CA. Financial details were not
disclosed.
"Candle brings award-winning infrastructure
management expertise and technology to the IBM
software portfolio," said Steve Mills, senior vice
president and group executive of IBM Software
Group. "Together we will provide customers with
powerful capabilities for managing end-to-end
infrastructure, processes and applications, which are
key requirements for the on demand operating
environment." Combining the two companies will offer
our customers a more comprehensive set of solutions,
which will enable IT to deliver greater business value."Some of the areas that users will benefit from are the
integration of Candle monitoring tools to TBSM (Tivoli
Business Systems Manager) specially in the mainframe
arena and the real time monitoring capabilities of
Omegamon products for provisioning and other areas. | | |
| IBM and Cisco : A new model for enterprise security | | | As part of their long-standing strategic alliance, IBM
and Cisco are collaborating on a new model for
enterprise security designed to help businesses tackle
their top security challenges and reduce costs. This
collaboration will include the integration of their
products and the creation of an integrated security
architecture that will span every critical point of
business computing - from laptops to corporate data.
This standards-based approach to cyber security can
help simplify security, reduce implementation and
administration costs, and bolster business productivity. http://www-3.ibm.com/security/cisco/ | | |
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