Service level management using IBM Tivoli Service Level Advisor and Tivoli Business Systems Manager

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor Corporativo: International Business Machines Corporation. International Technical Support Organization (-)
Otros Autores: Manoel, Edson (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Austin, TX : IBM, International Technical Support Organization c2004.
Edición:1st ed
Colección:IBM redbooks.
Materias:
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front cover
  • Contents
  • Notices
  • Trademarks
  • Preface
  • The team that wrote this redbook
  • Become a published author
  • Comments welcome
  • Part 1 Fundamentals
  • Chapter 1. Introduction to service level management
  • 1.1 Service level management overview
  • 1.2 Service level management benefits
  • 1.3 Service level management components
  • 1.3.1 Processes
  • 1.3.2 Documentation
  • 1.3.3 People
  • 1.3.4 Tools
  • 1.4 Business service management approach to service level management
  • 1.4.1 Convergence of business service management and service level management
  • 1.5 Improving service level management through integration
  • 1.6 Scope of this book
  • Chapter 2. General approach for implementing service level management
  • 2.1 A look at the ITIL process improvement model
  • 2.2 Planning for service level management implementation
  • 2.2.1 Identifying roles and responsibilities
  • 2.2.2 Understanding the services
  • 2.2.3 Assessing the ability to deliver
  • 2.3 Implementing service level management
  • 2.3.1 Developing service level objectives
  • 2.3.2 Negotiating on service level agreements
  • 2.3.3 Implementing service level management tools
  • 2.3.4 Establishing a reporting function
  • 2.3.5 Adjusting IT processes to include service level management
  • 2.4 Ongoing service level management program
  • 2.4.1 Maintenance of service definitions
  • 2.4.2 Service level agreement management via historical reporting
  • 2.4.3 Priority management of real-time faults
  • 2.5 Continuous improvement
  • 2.5.1 Improving quality of service levels
  • 2.5.2 Improving efficiency of service level management
  • 2.5.3 Improving effectiveness of service level management
  • Chapter 3. IBM Tivoli products that assist in service level management
  • 3.1 IBM Tivoli product mapping
  • 3.1.1 The monitoring and measurement layer
  • 3.1.2 The service level management layer.
  • 3.2 IBM Tivoli Business Systems Manager
  • 3.2.1 Business goals
  • 3.2.2 High level description and main functions
  • 3.2.3 Benefits of using IBM Tivoli Business Systems Manager
  • 3.2.4 Key concepts in IBM Tivoli Business Systems Manager
  • 3.2.5 IBM Tivoli Business Systems Manager architecture
  • 3.3 IBM Tivoli Data Warehouse
  • 3.3.1 Business goals
  • 3.3.2 High level description and main functions
  • 3.3.3 Benefits of using Tivoli Data Warehouse
  • 3.3.4 Key concepts in Tivoli Data Warehouse
  • 3.3.5 Tivoli Data Warehouse architecture
  • 3.4 IBM Tivoli Service Level Advisor
  • 3.4.1 Business goals
  • 3.4.2 High level description and main functions
  • 3.4.3 Benefits of using IBM Tivoli Service Level Advisor
  • 3.4.4 Key concepts in IBM Tivoli Service Level Advisor
  • 3.4.5 IBM Tivoli Service Level Advisor architecture
  • 3.5 IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Transaction Performance
  • 3.5.1 Business goals
  • 3.5.2 High level description and main functions
  • 3.5.3 Benefits of using IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Transaction Performance
  • 3.5.4 Key concepts in IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Transaction Performance
  • 3.5.5 IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Transaction Performance architecture
  • 3.6 IBM Tivoli Enterprise Console
  • 3.6.1 Business goals
  • 3.6.2 High level description and main functions
  • 3.6.3 Benefits of using IBM Tivoli Enterprise Console
  • 3.6.4 Key concepts of event groups in IBM Tivoli Enterprise Console
  • 3.6.5 IBM Tivoli Enterprise Console architecture
  • 3.7 IBM Tivoli Monitoring
  • 3.7.1 Business goals
  • 3.7.2 High level description and main functions
  • 3.7.3 Benefits of using IBM Tivoli Monitoring
  • 3.7.4 Key concepts in IBM Tivoli Monitoring
  • 3.7.5 IBM Tivoli Monitoring architecture
  • 3.8 Bringing it all together in support of SLM processes
  • 3.8.1 Service definitions
  • 3.8.2 Real-time monitoring
  • 3.8.3 Historical monitoring.
  • 3.8.4 Fault management
  • 3.8.5 SLA reporting and alerting
  • 3.8.6 Problem and change management
  • Chapter 4. Planning to implement service level management using Tivoli products
  • 4.1 Implementing SLM using Tivoli products
  • 4.1.1 Planning
  • 4.1.2 Implementation
  • 4.1.3 Ongoing SLM program
  • 4.1.4 Improvement process
  • 4.2 IBM Tivoli Business Systems Manager V3.1
  • 4.2.1 Propagation, alerts, and events
  • 4.2.2 Basic business system building
  • 4.2.3 Best practices for business system building
  • 4.2.4 IBM Tivoli Business Systems Manager business system types
  • 4.2.5 IBM Tivoli Business Systems Manager views in an SLM context
  • 4.2.6 IBM Tivoli Business Systems Manager roles in an SLM context
  • 4.2.7 Understanding your services
  • 4.2.8 Using IBM Tivoli Business Systems Manager 3.1 features for the benefit of SLM
  • 4.2.9 Using PBT and RLP to manage high availability scenarios
  • 4.3 Tivoli Data Warehouse V1.2
  • 4.4 IBM Tivoli Service Level Advisor V2.1
  • 4.4.1 Building SLAs in IBM Tivoli Service Level Advisor
  • 4.4.2 Supporting SLM with IBM Tivoli Service Level Advisor
  • 4.4.3 Realistic expectations for real-time SLAs
  • 4.4.4 Integrating IBM Tivoli Service Level Advisor with IBM Tivoli Business Systems Manager
  • 4.5 Additional products supporting SLM
  • 4.5.1 IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Transaction Performance
  • 4.5.2 IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Operating Systems
  • 4.5.3 IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Databases
  • 4.5.4 IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Web Infrastructure
  • Part 2 Case study scenarios
  • Chapter 5. Case study scenario: IRBTrade Company
  • 5.1 Background of the business and its current issues
  • 5.1.1 The business perspective
  • 5.1.2 The Information Technology perspective
  • 5.2 Existing IT infrastructure
  • 5.2.1 Systems environment
  • 5.2.2 Systems management
  • 5.2.3 Reporting
  • 5.3 A service level management solution.
  • 5.3.1 Where we want to be
  • 5.3.2 Where we are now
  • 5.3.3 How we will get there
  • 5.3.4 How we will know we have arrived
  • 5.4 Implementation
  • 5.4.1 Additional instrumentation required
  • 5.4.2 Identifying the business service
  • 5.4.3 Identifying necessary users roles
  • 5.4.4 Required resource types
  • 5.4.5 Creating business systems based on business functions
  • 5.4.6 Defining executive dashboard views
  • 5.4.7 Agreeing to and defining service level objectives
  • 5.4.8 Identifying metrics
  • 5.4.9 Enabling data sources in IBM Tivoli Service Level Advisor
  • 5.4.10 Setting up schedules, realms, and customers
  • 5.4.11 Setting up offerings
  • 5.4.12 Setting up SLA in IBM Tivoli Service Level Advisor
  • 5.5 How the new solution works in practice
  • 5.6 Continuous improvement
  • Chapter 6. Case study scenario: Greebas Bank
  • 6.1 Background to the business and its current issues
  • 6.1.1 The business unit perspective
  • 6.1.2 IT management perspective
  • 6.2 Existing IT infrastructure
  • 6.2.1 Systems environment
  • 6.2.2 Systems management
  • 6.2.3 Existing service level management
  • 6.2.4 Business service management
  • 6.3 A service level management solution
  • 6.3.1 Where we want to be
  • 6.3.2 Where we are now
  • 6.3.3 How we will get there
  • 6.3.4 How we will know we have arrived
  • 6.4 Implementation
  • 6.4.1 Stage 1: Defining services
  • 6.4.2 Stage 2: Enhancing instrumentation
  • 6.4.3 Stage 3: Determining users and roles
  • 6.4.4 Stage 4: Determining IBM Tivoli Business Systems Manager resource types
  • 6.4.5 Stage 5: Creating IBM Tivoli Business Systems Manager business systems
  • 6.4.6 Stage 6: Creating IBM Tivoli Business Systems manager views
  • 6.4.7 Stage 7: Agreeing to service level agreement objectives
  • 6.4.8 Stage 8: Defining metrics
  • 6.4.9 Stage 9: Preparing for ETLs.
  • 6.4.10 Stage 10: Preparing IBM Tivoli Service Level Advisor
  • 6.4.11 Stage 11: Creating offerings
  • 6.4.12 Stage 12: Creating SLAs and OLAs
  • 6.4.13 Stage 13: SLA reporting
  • 6.5 How the SLM solution works in practice
  • 6.5.1 Example 1: Component failure without loss of service
  • 6.5.2 Example 2: Component failure terminates a service
  • 6.5.3 Root cause analysis
  • 6.5.4 Assessing the SLM solution
  • 6.6 Continuous improvement
  • Part 3 Appendixes
  • Appendix A. Service management and the ITIL
  • The ITIL
  • Service management
  • Service delivery
  • Service support
  • Service support disciplines
  • Configuration management
  • Service desk
  • Incident management
  • Problem management
  • Change management
  • Release management
  • Service delivery disciplines
  • Capacity management
  • Availability management
  • Financial management for IT services
  • IT service continuity management
  • Service level management
  • Bringing it all together
  • Organization
  • Processes
  • Tools
  • Constant improvement is a must
  • Planning
  • Delivery
  • Measurement
  • Calibration
  • The power of integration
  • Appendix B. Important concepts and terminology
  • IBM Tivoli Service Level Advisor concepts
  • IBM Tivoli Business Systems Manager concepts
  • Appendix C. Scripts and rules used in this book
  • Abbreviations and acronyms
  • Related publications
  • IBM Redbooks
  • Other publications
  • Online resources
  • How to get IBM Redbooks
  • Help from IBM
  • Index
  • Back cover.