IBM SG24-4576-00 manual SystemView, DMI Support, Interoperability with Other Management Tools

Manager services and system module. This feature provide an extensive capability to merge dissimilar LANs into a single view of NetFinity managed assets.

1.9.3.4 DMI Support

NetFinity is the first product available to customers that includes DMI support. NetFinity implementation of DMI support provides instrumentation from its System Information Tool to the DMI service layer for both OS/2 and Windows clients. To accomplish this, IBM has delivered a DMI component agent that allows a NetFinity Manager to access a client desktop MIF database to deliver system specific information back into NetFinity DMI Browser. Today, NetFinity not only supports local DMI browsing capabilities, but also DMI alerting and a remote browser service.

1.9.3.5 Interoperability with Other Management Tools

NetFinity supports coexistence with almost any other LAN or enterprise management product, whether from IBM or other vendors. To provide for this integration, NetFinity Alert Manager was developed to allow its alerts to be captured and forwarded into any SNMP compliant management application. SNMP alerts are recognizable by the vast majority of different management tools in the market today. With this NetFinity feature, administrators can integrate sophisticated systems management functions with their existing SNMP-based systems management applications, such as IBM SystemView and HP OpenView. In direct support of heterogeneous LAN management environments, NetFinity is also launchable from within NetView for OS/2 and Novell NMS (NetWare Management Services).

1.9.4 SystemView

SystemView is an integrated solution for the management of information processing resources across heterogeneous environments. The objective of SystemView is to address customer requirements to increase systems and network availability, and to improve the productivity of personnel involved in system management.

The environments in which SystemView applies ranges from small stand-alone LANs to large multiprocessor systems. Depending on the environment, you might see OS/2, AIX/6000, or VM/ESA acting as a managing system with a consistent implementations on each platform. The benefit is the flexibility to deploy management functionality where it best suits the business needs. This also reduces management traffic, since the management is not implemented on a single platform.

1.9.4.1 SystemView Structure

An integral part of SystemView is a structure that enables the building of consistent systems management applications. The structure allows system management applications based on defined open architectures.

The SystemView structure consists of:

1.End-Use dimension

describes the facilities and guidelines for providing a consistent user interface to the management system. The end-use dimension provides a task-oriented, consistent look and feel to the user, through the powerful,

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