In the 1980’s there was a British TV show called Call My Bluff on which 2 teams of 3 “celebrities” battled to determine the correct definition of a given obscure word. The teams took turns to give three definitions, one true and two bluffs, while the other team attempted to determine which was correct. Recently […]
Many years ago, I wrote a workshop and a corresponding whitepaper on the business case for moving from the Tivoli Enterprise Console (TEC) to Netcool OMNIbus. It proved quite popular, and I ended up presenting this for IBM at a few user groups around Europe and a slightly longer hands-on workshop many times at Orb […]
Whilst writing my blog How can Topology Manager enhance your Netcool Deployment? the dynamic naming and packaging of some IBM solutions became apparent and the potential confusion that such dynamic naming can cause. Within the context of Topology Manager should we refer to Netcool OMNIbus, Netcool Operations Insight, Event Manager or Watson AIOPs Event Manager? […]
IBM Topology Manager DevOps Teams and Operations Teams are responsible for managing highly distributed and increasingly complex hybrid networks consisting of physical and virtualized infrastructure. Services and applications may span both on-premises systems and cloud-based solutions. The dynamic nature of the virtual infrastructure provides new challenges for all support teams. Topology Manager, formerly Agile Service […]
I’ve been working with IBM’s Monitoring and Event Management products for about 25 years and in that time, there have been 3 big events that significantly changed the products that we deployed. Firstly, there was the introduction of the Tivoli Enterprise Console (TEC) into the portfolio in 1996 that introduced the concept of rules such […]