Automate requesting, deployment, monitoring and management of cloud computing services
IBM Tivoli® Service Automation Manager enables users to request, deploy, monitor and manage cloud computing services. This Tivoli offering enables a more modern and dynamic data center.
- Lowers cost of service delivery through automation and reduced skill requirements
- Deploys IT services faster to meet the increased need for development, test, preproduction and production systems
- Delivers a higher degree of standardization and automation for deployment and management of IT services while reserving skilled IT staff members’ time for other high-value tasks
- Provides traceable processes and approval routings to serve as audit trails, and integrates with process governance
- Offers an integrated management capability that addresses the lifecycle changes of a cloud service
- Provides adaptable and automated best practices for building and managing IT infrastructures
- A structure built upon Tivoli's service management platform, leveraging existing investments in service management capabilities
- Included in IBM CloudBurst™ to help provide an easy to deploy private cloud package
- Integrates with IBM WebSphere® CloudBurst to speed the delivery of WebSphere-based services
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Operating systems supported: Linux
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Features and Benefits
Many IT organizations today are struggling to meet the day-to-day requirements and challenges the business places on it. Whether it’s the growing demand for quick and easy access to IT services, the need to be more responsive to change requests, providing better (and higher) availability of services, improving the turn-around time for problem resolution, or simply the cost per service, IT is finding it increasingly difficult to meet the requirements and expectations of the business.
IBM Tivoli Service Automation Manager can help both enterprise data centers and service providers improve the service they provide to the business and its users. It offers:
A higher degree of standardization and automation for deployment and management of IT services. Standardization helps improve overall operations. The more you can standardization the more you can reduce operating expense such as labor and downtime – which is the fastest growing portion of IT expenditures;
The ability to maintain or improve quality and cost per IT service;
A management stack that is easier to handle and provides for smoother transition from pre-production to production;
The ability to be audit proof and integrated with process governance;
Reduced manual (and costly) interventions;
The ability for IT to reduce the skill requirements needed for deploying and managing IT services, from standard to complex multi-tier environments;
The capability of deploying IT services faster to meet the increased need and growing number of requests for development, test, pre-production and production systems;
The opportunity for IT focus valuable, highly skilled (and expensive) staff on high-priority projects by reducing the callouts of their experts on tasks that can be automated or managed by the user.
Product requirements
Specified operating environment:
Hardware requirements
The following are minimum required values for memory and disk space for IBM Tivoli Service Automation Manager V7.1. Administrative System
Number of processors: 1
Memory: 4 GB
Disk: 60 GB
Linux® on System z® - Management Server
Number of processors: 1
Memory: 6 GB
Disk: 90 GB
AIX® - Management Server
Number of processors: 1
Memory: 6 GB
Disk: 90 GB
Linux on System x™ - Management Server
Number of processors: 1
Memory: 6 GB
Disk: 90 GB
Software requirements
The following operating systems will be supported by IBM Tivoli Service Automation Manager V7.1. Administrative system
Windows® XP Professional SP2 (32-bit, 64-bit)
Windows Server 2003 SP2 (Standard, Enterprise, or DataCenter) (32-bit, 64-bit)
Management server
Linux on System z
- SUSE Linux (SLES) 9.0 Enterprise Server System z SP4, or later (64-bit)AIX
- IBM AIX 5L™ V5.3 ML level 5300-06 (64-bit)Linux on System x
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux v4 (update 5, or later) (Intel®, 32-bit)
The program's specifications and specified operating environment information may be found in documentation accompanying the program, if available, such as a README file, or other information published by IBM, such as an announcement letter. Documentation and other program content may be supplied only in the English language.
Planning information:
Packaging
IBM Tivoli Service Application Manager V7.1 is distributed with:
International Program License Agreement (Z125-3301)
License Information document
CDs and DVDs
This program, when downloaded from a Web site, contains the applicable IBM license agreement and License Information, if appropriate, which will be presented for acceptance at the time of installation of the program. For future reference, the license and License Information will be stored in a directory such as LICENSE.TXT.
Security, auditability, and control:
IBM Tivoli Service Automation Manager uses the security and auditability features of the operating system software. The customer is responsible for evaluation, selection, and implementation of security features, administrative procedures, and appropriate controls in application systems and communication facilities.
Page last updated on March 03, 2009.
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