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CB - What is Cloud Computing?

Posted by News Desk on Mon, January 04, 2010 @ 10:14 PM ECT
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CB - What is Monitoring-as-a-Service(TM)

Posted by News Desk on Mon, January 04, 2010 @ 7:06 PM ECT
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IBM Tivoli Monitoring News

Posted by News Desk on Sat, April 07, 2009 @ 1:41 PM

IBM Tivoli Monitoring News

Frequently Encountered Situations and FAQs

Interim Fix 6.2.0.2-TIV-ITM-IF0001 is available

Available - OMEGAMON XEŽ V420 documentation

Updated - IBM Tivoli Monitoring Installation and Setup Guide for V6.2.1

White Paper - Tivoli Key Lifecycle Manager

IBM eSupport is changing

Need to Submit a PMR?? - Have you the Information available that

Support will require??

Items Regularly Updated

STEs

IBM Service Management Jams

Technical Information Update

Wikis

Plus

Lots of useful links

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ITCAM News & Changes

Posted by Jason Meiers on Sat, Mar 07, 2009 @ 10:41 AM

Frequently Encountered Situations and FAQs

Frequently Encountered Situations and FAQs

Title: Quick how-to on using a Linux TEMA with ITM 61 or ITM 6.2.
Link: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=2344&tcss=Newsletter&uid=swg21234414

Title: Data Collector not Connecting to Managing Server
Link: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=2344&tcss=Newsletter&uid=swg21267468

Title: Problem Installing an ITCAM for WebSphere fix
Link: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=2344&tcss=Newsletter&uid=swg21267527

Title: System Module category on the System Resource Browser page is not available in a WebSphere Network Deployment environment.
Link: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=2344&tcss=Newsletter&uid=swg21327781

Title: "Unable to open Metafile" Error Message reported in the log files of WebSphere and J2EE Agent
Link: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=2344&tcss=Newsletter&uid=swg21363893

Title: Enabling instrumentation and monitoring of RMI/IIOP requests between two application servers
Link: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=2344&tcss=Newsletter&uid=swg21366893

Title: Location path for log and trace files of the Managing Server
Link: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=2344&tcss=Newsletter&uid=swg21367964

Title: ITCAM 6.1 and 6.2 for WebSphere - Asynchronous Bean requests do not display on ITCAM
Link: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=2344&tcss=Newsletter&uid=swg21370305

Title: Featured documents for ITCAM for Websphere
Link: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=2344&tcss=Newsletter&uid=swg21300122

News & Technical Flashes

Title: ITCAM for WebSphere 6.1 Upgrade Recommended
Link: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=2344&tcss=Newsletter&uid=swg21321963

Recent & Important Downloads

Title: Recommended fixes for ITCAM for WebSphere
Link: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=2344&tcss=Newsletter&uid=swg21300120

Problem-Solving Resources Online

Title: ITCAM for WAS 6.1 Welcome Package
Link: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=2344&tcss=Newsletter&uid=swg21292257

Title: IBM Tivoli Monitoring Newsletter
Link: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=2344&tcss=Newsletter&uid=swg27007815

Title: MustGather: Read First for ITCAM for WebSphere
Link: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=2344&tcss=Newsletter&uid=swg21300124

 Quick how-to on using a Linux TEMA with ITM 61 or ITM 6.2.
Link: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=2344&tcss=Newsletter&uid=swg21234414

Title: Data Collector not Connecting to Managing Server
Link: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=2344&tcss=Newsletter&uid=swg21267468

Title: Problem Installing an ITCAM for WebSphere fix
Link: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=2344&tcss=Newsletter&uid=swg21267527

Title: System Module category on the System Resource Browser page is not available in a  WebSphere Network Deployment environment.
Link: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=2344&tcss=Newsletter&uid=swg21327781

Title: "Unable to open Metafile" Error Message reported in the log files of WebSphere and J2EE Agent
Link: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=2344&tcss=Newsletter&uid=swg21363893

Title: Enabling instrumentation and monitoring of RMI/IIOP requests between two application servers
Link: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=2344&tcss=Newsletter&uid=swg21366893

Title: Location path for log and trace files of the Managing Server
Link: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=2344&tcss=Newsletter&uid=swg21367964

Title: ITCAM 6.1 and 6.2 for WebSphere - Asynchronous Bean requests do not display on ITCAM
Link: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=2344&tcss=Newsletter&uid=swg21370305

Title: Featured documents for ITCAM for Websphere
Link: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=2344&tcss=Newsletter&uid=swg21300122

News & Technical Flashes

Title: ITCAM for WebSphere 6.1 Upgrade Recommended
Link: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=2344&tcss=Newsletter&uid=swg21321963

Recent & Important Downloads

Title: Recommended fixes for ITCAM for WebSphere
Link: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=2344&tcss=Newsletter&uid=swg21300120

Problem-Solving Resources Online

Title: ITCAM for WAS 6.1 Welcome Package
Link: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=2344&tcss=Newsletter&uid=swg21292257

Title: IBM Tivoli Monitoring Newsletter
Link: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=2344&tcss=Newsletter&uid=swg27007815

Title: MustGather: Read First for ITCAM for WebSphere
Link: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=2344&tcss=Newsletter&uid=swg21300124

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IBM to Deliver Software via Cloud Computing With Amazon Web Services

Posted by Jason Meiers on Wed, Feb 11, 2009 @ 11:51 AM

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IBM Software-as-a-Service

Posted by Jason Meiers on Thu, Jan 15, 2009 @ 06:56 PM

Bluehouse, who is that? If you havent heard of it you will soon. 40 million users will be added with an acquisition for Outblaze a Hong Kong based software-as-a-service platform for email service assets.

IBM Announces Intent to Acquire Outblaze's E-Mail Service Assets

 

 

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Cloud in a Box - Cloud Computing behind the firewall

Posted by Jason Meiers on Mon, Dec 15, 2008 @ 09:57 PM
Small startup pricing ( 1 year )

External Cloud - $3456 - 4 instances of 1-way $0.10

Internal Cloud -  $4000 - Colo ( ServePath ask for Joe ) and Cloud ( Tamgroup )


How to access the console? You can download the TN5250 terminal http://tn5250.sourceforge.net/

"Cloud in a Box" command prompt

"Distributed Cloud" command prompt EC2

cmd prompt


  • Also the i6 has a built in web navigator for systems management funtions.
  • https://<hostname>:2005/ibm/console/login.do?action=secure

 

Systems Managmenet on i5/OS (Hyperic - CloudStatus)

This tab includes the system status, system operator messages, history log, disk status, run a command, change password, application administration


 Hyperic - CloudStatus


 

Where did Linux and Unix come from? Type in the QSH command at the mini mainframe command prompt.

 

 Filesystem Management (S3 Bucket)


Cloud in a box storage

 

Rightscale Storage


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Is OSS losing value?

Posted by Jason Meiers on Tue, Dec 09, 2008 @ 01:51 PM

Open source software benefits are great especially considering the initial investment of the software procurement. Sure there are challengers of open source software offering enterprise support services and cost benefit analysis proving value of a commercial product. Does open source software still have value in cloud computing environments and utility computing infrastructures?

Open source software provides support from large groups of internet developers that in some cases are larger than commercial software vendors. Advantages for larger and growing open source developer groups for products also include quick problem resolution at zero cost. In most cases just post a question on an open source developer board and recieve a response within minutes. Please note the quality of the response can vary.

A few months ago the open source guru said cloud computing is "Worse Than Stupidity" [link]. The value for open source software is deminishing with utility computing and cloud computing since services are hosted in software vendor data centers rather than on premise. There is no need for IT departments to download and maintain open source software with cloud computing and utility computing.

For me Utility Computing offers an opprotunity for developers as well as small businesses to consume and develop high value utilty computing services at an affordable cost. Examples for this include healthcare providers, governments and low income communities to access high quaility medical utility computing processes at an affordable cost.

Just my 2 cents.

JM

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Case Study - Private Cloud - Monitoring-as-a-Service (TM)

Posted by Jason Meiers on Wed, Nov 19, 2008 @ 08:52 PM

It is a story of rise and fall for the stock market as you know these days, ok ok more fall than rise. Does what goes up must go down also apply in the other direction as well? I think so, it can only get better from here. There was a system outage on Google Finance ticker for GOOG on September 30th 2008, the stock went to zero for 20 minutes, see slides below. GOOG stock holders could'nt see what was happening.

This is another example of why application management is so important.

Here are a few snapshots of the slides I will be presenting tomorrow in San Francisco, CA. Your welcome to join here is the invitation.

Date: Nov 20th, 2008
Meeting time: 12:00 PST
Meeting location: 425 Market Street 19th floor, Room 201 San Francisco, CA
Meeting topic: ITCAM Implementation Case Study by Jason Meiers of CAM Solutions

Are you still monitoring your apps using log files or building custom JMX monitoring apps? You got to see this presentation. 

 

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