monitoring
Open Source Monitoring and The Art of War
Thursday, June 19th, 2008I get this question a lot when I visit a Tivoli customer…
We are thinking of looking at that Open Source vendor you are always talking about for some of our servers.
Then I ask them which one and they say jeez I can’t remember the name. Then I rattle off a few of the […]
Off Topic - Thoughts on ITM 6.2 FP1
Friday, May 30th, 2008I am just completing an ITM 6.2 workshop today in Germany and we decided to use FP1 for the class exercises. I love doing this kind of training because I can get the students to try out a lot of the new features that I don’t have time to get to. Here are some initial […]
Where did all those nice developers from BMC Patrol go?
Monday, March 31st, 2008Intelligium forms a Strategic Alliance for Tivoli services
Wednesday, February 6th, 2008Intelligium forms a Strategic Alliance for Tivoli services
ATLANTA, GA. (February 06, 2008)— John Willis, an IBM Tivoli veteran with over 25 years of experience in the software industry has entered into a long term exclusive partnership with Intelligium, a leader in providing Tivoli and Websphere services globally. As a result of this partnership, John will […]
Mission Impossible
Wednesday, December 19th, 2007The IBM ESM Integration Story
Last night, I attended a Tivoli User Group (TUG) meeting in Atlanta. One of the presentations was on IBM’s new Tivoli Service Request Manager product. During the presentation, my mind started to wander, and I wondered how difficult it must have been for IBM just to get this […]
What if I only had a hour to live?
Thursday, December 6th, 2007I was flipping channels this evening in my hotel room and heard a very touching story about a man who wrote a short Xen like essay about all the things he would do if he had only one hour to live. By the way, he dies shortly after completing the essay. Then, I started […]
Zabbix Finds a Home in USA
Thursday, November 29th, 2007Zabbix is an interesting open source monitoring product that is primarily developed in Latvia.
About two years ago, I had a venture called OpenESM where we were trying to partner with Zabbix, but, quite frankly, I could not understand a word they said and felt in the end that we were going to have communication/support issues. […]
Gartner Report Agent Vs. Agentless Monitoring
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007I was going to hammer them but it’s really not a bad article. Very high level and probably not technically worth the money HP paid for it. However I am sure they didn’t pay for its technical merit.
How to Choose Agent-Based and Agentless Monitoring Solutions
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DevCamp Tivoli IBM Monitoring and BSM Podcast
Tuesday, November 27th, 2007IBM Tivoli Administrators - Monitoring and BSM
Doug McClure and myself are promoting a DevCampTivoli on May 17th 2008 the Saturday before the IBM Tivoli conference. The idea is to invite about 20 to 30 IBM Tivoli monitoring and BSM experts to develop monitoring-to-business-intelligence solutions based on ITM 6.2 and TBSM 4.1.1. It […]
