Learn about integrating the Virtual I/O Server into your Tivoli® environment for IBM® Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager, IBM Tivoli Monitoring, IBM Tivoli Storage Manager, IBM Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager, IBM Tivoli Identity Manager, and IBM TotalStorage® Productivity
Center.
IBM Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager
IBM Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager (TADDM) discovers
infrastructure elements found in the typical data center, including
application software, hosts and operating environments (including
the Virtual I/O Server),
network components (such as routers, switches, load balancers, firewalls,
and storage), and network services (such as LDAP, NFS, and DNS). Based
on the data it collects, TADDM automatically
creates and maintains application infrastructure maps that include
runtime dependencies, configuration values, and change history. With
this information, you can determine the interdependences between business
applications, software applications, and physical components to help
you ensure and improve application availability in your environment.
For example, you can do the following tasks:
- You can isolate configuration-related application problems.
- You can plan for application changes to minimize or eliminate
unplanned disruptions.
- You can create a shared topological definition of applications
for use by other management applications.
- You can determine the effect of a single configuration change
on a business application or service.
- You can see what changes take place in the application environment
and where.
TADDM includes
an agent-free discovery engine, which means that the Virtual I/O Server does not require
that an agent or client be installed and configured in order to be
discovered by TADDM.
Instead, TADDM uses
discovery sensors that rely on open and secure protocols and access
mechanisms to discover the data center components.
IBM Tivoli Identity Manager
With IBM Tivoli Identity Manager, you can manage
identities and users across several platforms, including
AIX®, Windows®, Solaris, and so on. With
Tivoli Identity Manager 4.7 and
later, you can also include
Virtual I/O Server users.
Tivoli Identity Manager provides
a
Virtual I/O Server adapter
that acts as an interface between the
Virtual I/O Server and the
Tivoli Identity Manager Server.
The adapter might not be located on the
Virtual I/O Server and the
Tivoli Identity Manager Server
manages access to the
Virtual I/O Server by using your
security system.
The adapter runs as a service, independent of
whether a user is logged on to the
Tivoli Identity Manager Server.
The adapter acts as a trusted virtual administrator on the
Virtual I/O Server, performing
tasks like the following:
- Creating a user ID to authorize access to the Virtual I/O Server.
- Modifying an existing user ID to access the Virtual I/O Server.
- Removing access from a user ID. This deletes the user ID from
the Virtual I/O Server.
- Suspending a user account by temporarily deactivating access to
the Virtual I/O Server.
- Restoring a user account by reactivating access to the Virtual I/O Server.
- Changing a user account password on the Virtual I/O Server.
- Reconciling the user information of all current users on the Virtual I/O Server.
- Reconciling the user information of a particular user account
on the Virtual I/O Server by
performing a lookup.
IBM Tivoli Monitoring
Virtual I/O Server V1.3.0.1 (fix
pack 8.1), includes the IBM Tivoli Monitoring System Edition for System p® agent. With Tivoli Monitoring System
Edition for System p, you
can monitor the health and availability of multiple IBM System p servers
(including the Virtual I/O Server)
from the Tivoli
Enterprise Portal. Tivoli Monitoring System
Edition for System p gathers
data from the Virtual I/O Server,
including data about physical volumes, logical volumes, storage pools,
storage mappings, network mappings, real memory, processor resources,
mounted file system sizes, and so on. From the Tivoli Enterprise Portal, you can view a graphical
representation of the data, use predefined thresholds to alert you
on key metrics, and resolve issues based on recommendations provided
by the Expert Advice feature of Tivoli Monitoring.
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager
Virtual I/O Server 1.4 includes
the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager client.
With Tivoli Storage Manager,
you can protect Virtual I/O Server data
from failures and other errors by storing backup and disaster-recovery
data in a hierarchy of offline storage. Tivoli Storage Manager can help
protect computers running a variety of different operating environments,
including the Virtual I/O Server,
on a variety of different hardware, including IBM System p servers. If
you configure the Tivoli Storage Manager client
on the Virtual I/O Server,
you can include the Virtual I/O Server in
your standard backup framework.
IBM Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager
Virtual I/O Server 1.4 includes
the IBM Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager agent
on the Virtual I/O Server. Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager helps you
track, allocate, and invoice your IT costs by collecting, analyzing,
and reporting on the actual resources used by entities such as cost
centers, departments, and users. Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager can gather
data from multi-tiered datacenters that include Windows, AIX, Virtual I/O Server, HP/UX Sun
Solaris, Linux®, IBM i, and
VMware.
IBM TotalStorage Productivity
Center
With
Virtual I/O Server 1.5.2, you
can configure the
IBM TotalStorage Productivity
Center agents on the
Virtual I/O Server. TotalStorage Productivity
Center is an integrated, storage infrastructure management suite that
is designed to help simplify and automate the management of storage
devices, storage networks, and capacity utilization of file systems
and databases. When you install and configure the TotalStorage Productivity Center agents
on the
Virtual I/O Server,
you can use the TotalStorage Productivity
Center user interface to collect and view information about the
Virtual I/O Server. You can then
perform the following tasks using the TotalStorage Productivity Center user
interface:
- Run a discovery job for the agents on the Virtual I/O Server.
- Run probes, run scans, and ping jobs to collect storage information
about the Virtual I/O Server.
- Generate reports using the Fabric Manager and the Data Manager
to view the storage information gathered.
- View the storage information gathered using the topology Viewer.