The holy grail of service management is to automatically discover a business service and then for the monitoring tool to send the events to the correct resource without any manual intervention. The discovery of the service using TADDM and its integration with TBSM is already well documented however the part that is often forgotten is […]

This tip shows how to install and consfigure the cygwin ssh server for use with Tivoli Application Dependency and Discovery Manager (TADDM). Each Windows gateway requires installation of a SSH server for use by TADDM during discovery processing. First you will need to download the ssh server component to the Windows Gateway system where the […]

Recently my toaster which I’d had for 32 years toasted its last slice of bread and I was forced to replace it with a newer model. Even though the toaster was cheap and looked ugly it worked just fine and was the first thing my mother bought me when I left home and so I […]

Discovering your devices before consolidating services as part of a merger or acquisition There are a few times when the data discovered by Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manger (TADDM) can be crucial to a business. These are: Discovering the devices you have in a data centre before either moving to the cloud or closing data […]

We have been asked by a few companies if they can use Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manger (TADDM) to quickly discover what devices they have in a data center before either moving to the cloud or closing data centers due to consolidation. In addition Managed Service Providers (MSP) have requested the ability to discover the […]