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Press Release Summary:



IBM Tivoli® Monitoring v6.1 monitors and manages critical hardware and software in distributed environments. It lets users consolidate management of both mainframe and distributed platforms on single console and provides visibility into monitoring infrastructure, focusing on both performance and availability management. With hundreds of out-of-the-box best practices, users can also develop customizable work flows via GUI and access warehouse with reporting capability.




Original Press Release:




The IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.1 Solution is the Next Generation of IBM Tivoli's Monitoring Family of Products



At a glance
IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.1 can help you:

Boost your value to the business - Effectively link together IT Ops services, processes, skills, and tools
Consolidate management under a revolutionary, easy-to-use portal
Customize the rich visualization of availability information
Benefit from hundreds of out-of-the box best practices
Develop your own customizable work flows via an intuitive, GUI
Access an easy-to-use warehouse with advanced reporting capability
Experience a quick, straightforward deployment that is easy to manage
Provide a clear path for existing IBM Tivoli distributed monitoring customers to leverage the new capabilities
Enhance globalization

For ordering, contact:
Your IBM representative or IBM Americas Call Centers at 800-IBM-CALL (Reference: YE001).

Overview
The IBM Tivoli® Monitoring V6.1 solution is the next generation of IBM Tivoli's family of products that help monitor and manage critical hardware and software in distributed environments.

Products included in the IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.1 solutions include:

IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.1
IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Databases V6.1
IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Messaging and Collaboration V6.1
IBM Tivoli Monitoring Active Directory Option V6.1

The major enhancements of this release include:

Ease of use - The new operator user interface to help users to quickly isolate and resolve potential performance problems
Visualization of information - Visibility into the monitoring infrastructure focusing on both performance and availability management
Increased breadth of monitoring - More critical resources and performance metrics across disparate platforms throughout the enterprise
Reduced total cost of ownership and improved time to value - Simplified installation, configuration, and lightweight agent rule deployment, with self-monitoring capabilities to help you reduce total IT operational costs
Automated programmatic upgrade of Distributed Monitoring V3.7
Integration of products and workflows - The Tivoli Enterprise(TM) Portal bringing together monitoring and management of both mainframe and distributed platforms to a single console, including, tighter integration with Tivoli Event Console, and extensions to IBM Tivoli Monitoring V5 monitoring infrastructures

Planned availability dates
November 8, 2005 (electronic software delivery)
November 18, 2005 (media and documentation)

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