134 Tivoli Business Systems Manager Version 2.1: End-to-End Business Impact Management
5.5 Software level and prerequisites
IBM Tivoli Business Systems Manager collects information from multiple
subsystems. This is called an information feed, and it is based on specific levels
of software. You must collect the various data feeds and their software levels to
ensure easier integration into IBM Tivoli Business Systems Manager and identify
discrepancies early.
This section discusses software prerequisites for distributed and mainframe
systems.
5.5.1 Planning for distributed systems
Complete understanding of an enterprise's distributed systems is required to
integrate IBM Tivoli Business Systems Manager into the distributed system
environment.
IBM Tivoli Business Systems Manager supports two basic interfaces for
collecting distributed event data:
? An integrated interface with Tivoli Enterprise Console (TEC) using the event
enablement service. Data sources that route events through TEC include:
– Application Policy Management (APM) instrumentation for heartbeat and
threshold events
– Generic events initiated from rule engine ihstttec
– Tivoli Manager for products
– IBM Tivoli Monitoring modules
? Common listener service. Data sources that route events through the
common listener service include:
– IBM Tivoli Monitoring (ITM)
– IBM Tivoli NetView
– Tivoli Workload Scheduler v8.1
– PATROL
– CA-Unicenter TNG
For IBM Tivoli Business Systems Manager to recognize distributed resources,
they must be mapped to defined resource types within IBM Tivoli Business
Systems Manager.