Monitor And Alert For Anomalies

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Wednesday, April 07, 2004

IBM TIVOLI, HP OPENVIEW, CAUNICENTER: THE BIG DADDIES

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For really large and complex networks you need products of a similar class and capability to manage them. The big daddies of this game are Tivoli from IBM, OpenView from HP and Unicenter from CA. These are not single products, but a large array of components that you choose from. They go beyond simple network management to integrate enterprise-wide IT and IT asset-management functions such as storage management, application management, help-desk management and service-level monitoring and management. Needless to say, these are complex beings and need separate infrastructure and staff to be dedicated to them. 

IBM Tivoli
IBM Tivoli is system-management software that monitors your network at the network component and business system-application levels. It identifies critical problems as well as misleading symptoms and effects, and then notifies support staff with the appropriate response, or automatically cures the problem. It has modules that discover TCP/IP and SNA networks, displays network topologies, correlates and manages events and SNMP traps, monitors network health and gathers performance data. Tivoli can be used to monitor not just network resources, but also applications and storage resources. Other parts of Tivoli can distribute software throughout the enterprise, manage changes and lets you control your IT assets, automate workflow through the enterprise and can remotely control systems and applications. It also lets you maintain device and application inventory for asset management in your organization.

HP OpenView
HP OpenView is network-management software that can manage the availability and performance of both voice and data networks. It discovers and maps the relationship of network devices to each other. 

It also measures the performance of your network, providing insights into network utilization and possible bottlenecks. The network node manager details the network topology for switched networks. The solution can be used for IP, ATM and telecom networks. It provides problem detection with appropriate alarms and detailed statistics about the problem. The problem is also mapped on the network topology diagram. OpenView also works with MPLS VPNs and WANs.

CA Unicenter
Computer Associates Unicenter is a suite of products that provides database management, enterprise job management, operation management, IT resource management and service management. The operation-management part manages the health and availability of the infrastructure. It looks for performance of applications and network and provides optimization for mission critical applications, Web services, databases and system management. It lets you proactively manage LAN, WAN, switched and VLAN networks, as well as optimizes them. It has support for TCP/IP and SNA networks, OpenVMS and mainframe systems. 

The IT resources management provides provides asset tracking capabilities through automated discovery, hardware inventory, network inventory, software inventory, configuration management, software usage monitoring, license management and extensive cross-platform reporting.

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