3.5. Availability management
An availability management tool is an application that reports the real-time status of an e-business hardware or software component by proactively monitoring various characteristics of the component. With the increasing mission-critical nature of e-business applications, availability management is not simply reporting a fault alert from a network device, server, or application. Taking corrective actions using intelligent analysis of fault and performance data is nowadays all-inclusive of availability management. In combination with an event management system, robust systems management software such as IBM Tivoli Monitoring (ITM) provide a new set of capabilities such as automatic correction of many component-level ...
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