Best Practices for IBM Tivoli Enterprise Console to Netcool/OMNIbus Upgrade

Publish Date
05 August 2008

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Author(s)

Dietger Bahn is a Systems Management Specialist at the IBM Software Group, Tivoli Services in Germany, and specializes in IBM Tivoli Netcool product line. His areas of expertise also include a Proof-of-Technology about IBM Tivoli Netcool and integrations at the IBM Technical Marketing Competence Center Europe (TMCC), also used in the IBM Tivoli Integrated Demo Environment (TIDE), with 10 years of experience in Systems Management and technical administration of UNIX® family operating systems including high availability environments. He worked for three years as a Support Specialist at the IBM EMEA Techline pre-sales and post-sales support for Tivoli and Systems Management solutions. Before joining IBM, he worked for seven years as an IT Specialist for UNIX systems administration. Dietger is ITIL® certified and continuative qualified in service-oriented troubleshooting.

• Dietger Bahn

Richard Fowkes is a Senior accredited Product Services Professional, and Team Leader for the Maintenance and Technical Services Tivoli support team based in the UK, which supports customers in UKISA and the Nordic countries. He has provided technical support for a wide range of Tivoli products at IBM for the last nine years and has over 20 years of experience in the Systems Management field. He holds a degree in business studies and is currently a staff member of the UKISA Technical Council. His areas of expertise include Tivoli Framework, Enterprise Console, NetView® and Workload Scheduler, and generic troubleshooting. He has co-written and taught the Advanced Problem Investigation Principles course.

• Richard Fowkes

Raffaella Nicolosi works for IBM Italia in Global Response Team EMEA, helping customers resolve critical situations. She earned a degree in Computer Science in 2005 and began working for IBM Italia in 2006. Her areas of expertise in the IBM portfolio include the Netcool suite and its related products such as OMNIbus, Webtop, Impact, Tivoli Business Service Manager 4.1, Tivoli Network Manager IP Edition, and Proviso®. Her areas of expertise include TCP/IP Networks, operating systems, human and computer interaction, and Java™ programming.

• Raffaella Nicolosi

Wolfgang Schumacher is a Tivoli Certified Consultant and Tivoli Certified Instructor at ACT AG in Niederkassel, Germany. He is also Germany's representative to the Global Tivoli User Group. He has 26 years of experience in the Systems Management field. His experience includes the project management, architecture, implementation, and performance measurement of Systems Management and networking solutions for distributed and mainframe environments using IBM, Tivoli, and OEM products. His areas of expertise include IBM Tivoli Enterprise Console rule writing and developing automation for IBM Netcool OMNIbus solutions.

• Wolfgang Schumacher

Ilda Yaguinuma is an IT Specialist at Server Systems Operations in IBM Brazil. She has been working at IBM since 1993. She supports SNA architecture and NetView family products on the mainframe platform. She has moved to the distributed platform since the Tivoli acquisition. She has worked on several projects, designing and implementing Tivoli core products. She has written about TEC architecture and OMNIbus/ITM integration.

• Ilda Yaguinuma

Chris Almond is an ITSO Project Leader and IT Architect based at the ITSO Center in Austin, Texas. In his current role, he specializes in managing content development projects focused on Linux®, System p™, and AIX®, various IBM Software Group products, and innovation programs. He has a total of 17 years of IT industry experience, including the last 9 with IBM.

• Chris Almond

ISBN

0738485292

IBM Form Number
SG24-7557-00