When Harold Macmillan became the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom on the 10th January 1957 he probably didn’t think 54 years later he would appear in a blog about Enterprise Systems Management. However one thing he said during his period of office is just as true for politics as is in the world of […]
Thursday, 26 May 2011 14:48 Welcome to the first of hopefully many blogs on subjects mainly related to automation and scheduling issues. Although I will probably write about IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler (distributed) (TWS/d) primarily, I would also like to cover other automation and scheduling products from time to time. I am not intending for […]
First thing that will be a shock to most Tivoli users is Tivoli Endpoint Manager requires a license and tracks software usage. So you need to get a valid license authorization file before starting the install. License model is based on per client for desktops and RVU for servers, although there is currently no method […]
There are some significant differences between Tivoli Framework and Tivoli Endpoint Manager (Version 7) when it comes to creating and authenticating administrators and operators. These differences will need to be considered when migrating administrators from Framework to TEM. Administrator authentication Firstly looking at Tivoli Framework, when it was installed in my environment a root administrator […]
I’ve looked at clouds from both sides now, from up and down, and still somehow it’s cloud illusions I recall. I really don’t know clouds at all. Joni Mitchell – Both Sides, Now 1968 43 years after Joni Mitchell first pondered the subject of Clouds many IT budget holders are now struggling with similar issues. […]