Software simplifies integration of critical applications.
Press Release Summary:
HACMP Smart Assist for WebSphere® is a disaster recovery solution for pSeries®-based WebSphere servers. It provides monitoring and recovery mechanisms to help ensure that critical servers and infrastructure components are adequately recovered when there is a failure, or when user performs maintenance on production environments. HACMP also monitors WebSphere internal components and ensures
all necessary system resources are available on backup servers.
Original Press Release:
IBM HACMP Smart Assist for WebSphere Simplifies Integration of Business-Critical Applications with World-Class High Availability on IBM eServer pSeries Servers
IBM HACMP Smart Assist for WebSphere® brings you the best in
configuration and setup aids to help complete your WebSphere
application environments. The WebSphere Application Server
Network Deployment, Tivoli Directory Server (TDS), and DB2®
components are all inherently highly available, but with the addition of the HACMP clustering product, your solutions significantly reduce your exposures to downtime or outages.
WebSphere application environments are among the best of breed when it comes to deploying Web-enabled application environments. HACMP is a premier high availability and disaster recovery solution for your pSeries® based WebSphere servers. It
provides monitoring and recovery mechanisms to help ensure that
critical servers and infrastructure components are adequately
recovered when there is a failure, or when you need to perform
maintenance on your production environments.
By combining these two powerful and feature-rich products, your IT staff will be better able to keep your critical business applications running 24 x 7.
With HACMP Smart Assist for WebSphere, your IT staff can more
easily integrate and configure an optimal environment that will deliver on demand resources to your end users. The WebSphere platform provides your applications with load balancing, dynamic reconfiguration, and system management of the application servers.
HACMP brings additional high availability features such as monitoring of the WebSphere internal components and ensuring
that all necessary system resources are readily available on backup servers. Fine tuning this environment is every IT manager's goal. With the HACMP Smart Assist for WebSphere, that job just got easier.
Key prerequisites
The following IBM powerhouse technology is used:
o HACMP V5.1, or later
o WebSphere V5.0, or later
o AIX® 5L V5.1 or V5.2, or later
Planned availability date
May 21, 2004
At a glance
IBM HACMP Smart Assist for WebSphere helps your professional IT staff more easily configure a higher level of availability for your on demand solutions.
o Provides auto-discovery of your HACMP and WebSphere environments and creates appropriate configuration information for both
o Reduces application downtime caused by system outages, natural disasters, or planned maintenance
o Utilizes a built-in knowledge base to produce more efficient
solution configurations
o Reduces the time your IT professionals invest in understanding the infrastructure and enables them to spend more time developing
and improving applications
o Reduces the time your IT professionals invest in creating and maintaining configuration data
o Tightly integrates two powerhouse technologies from IBM to launch your application environment into the on demand world
For ordering, contact:
Your IBM representative, an IBM Business Partner, or the Americas Call Centers at 800-IBM-CALL Reference: RE001
