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2.8.6 Best Practices for IBM Tivoli Enterprise Console to Netcool/OMNIbus Upgrade
by Chris Almond, Dietger Bahn, Richard Fowkes, Raffaella Nicolosi, Wolfgang Schumacher, Ilda
Yaguinuma
The acquisition of Micromuse R○ Inc. brings new opportunities for all involved in
IBM R○ Systems Management discipline, and the development of a new and exciting
strategy.
This IBM Redbooks R○ publication should be used when planning and implementing
an integration and upgrade strategy from TEC to OMNIbus. In this book we provide
recommended best practices and describe strategies for upgrading existing installations
in a way that should best suit the needs of existing TEC-based environments.
The audience for this book is anyone involved in the Systems Management discipline,
but it applies primarily to both those with a Tivoli or Netcool background, and is
aimed at customers with an existing Tivoli Enterprise Console R○ investment who are
looking to evaluate the comparative characteristics of TEC and Netcool/OMNIbus TM ,
so that they can perform a system upgrade.
Depending on the complexity of the existing environment and the depth of the
requirements, this upgrade could be a significant project, but we aim with this book to
make it as straightforward and as successful as possible.
We have structured the book to first introduce a quick overview of the products,
highlighting the key benefits of Netcool/OMNIbus so that both audiences can become
familiar with the different concepts. Then the architectures of both products are discussed
in more detail, concluding with some typical scenarios.
Part 2, "Strategies” on page101, reviews planning and strategy. It begins with
detailed guidelines on assessing the existing customer environment in order to identify
how TEC is currently deployed. We discuss considerations to make and how to plan
the activities required to upgrade. Then different upgrade scenarios are presented with
a best practice recommendation that the reader can adapt to his environment.
At this point we would like to stress that this book builds on the utilities provided
by the Tivoli and Netcool Integration Event Flow package (downloadable from the
IBM OPAL Web site), and the recommendations from the Tivoli & Netcool Event Flow
Integration white paper. The main distinction is that they cover various event integration
scenarios, whereas we, in addition, map out a complete upgrade path to OMNIbus in
our recommended strategy.
The implementation of the suggested strategy is then covered in Chapter 2,
"Configuring the event sources” on page277. We describe in detail the steps required
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