Overview and value proposition

IBM Tivoli Monitoring Express 6.1 addresses the quickly growing IT complexity in SMB companies. These businesses need automated tools to ensure that their applications, servers and networks are going to be there—available and secured—for business to keep moving. With Tivoli Monitoring Express, clients can reduce costly business performance outages and lower operational costs through centralized administration. Customers can quickly identify and resolve IT resource and application problems to increase availability and reduce costs associated with keeping their businesses up and running. For clients with limited or reduced budgets, Tivoli Monitoring Express saves time and money with self-managing capabilities that reduce the need for system intervention and the occurrence of system disruptions, allowing greater IT efficiency for sustained business growth.

Tivoli Monitoring Express is designed for SMBs who need to manage critical applications and servers with limited functionality but do not need to integrate with the suite of Tivoli solutions. Customers who are utilizing Tivoli Monitoring Express and find that they have a need for full functionality, need to integrate with other Tivoli solutions or have more than 100 servers should upgrade to IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.1.

Features and benefits

Tivoli Monitoring Express delivers simplified implementation and operation without sacrificing the power and flexibility required to meet the needs of SMB customers. The robust feature set includes:

• One-click installation for real-time metrics within 60 minutes
• Installation on a single management server
• Scaled management for up to 100 servers
• Support for heterogeneous environments
• Silent installation with no disruption to normal operations
• IBM DB2® database included at no cost
• Support for DB2 Express and Microsoft SQL
• Single, intuitive interface with browser-based controls
• Powerful visualization
• Real-time and historical reporting in an integrated self-managing database
• Built-in expert advice
• “Take action” suggestions for system improvement
• Library of best practices
• Personalized views and workspaces
• Automation for common recovery tasks