Achieving Simplicity
James Governor
06 May 02
Tivoli has created a new abstraction layer called the Tivoli Workbench to act as a framework for platform-specific resource models. This is framework with a small "f" though, rather than a big monolithic "F".
This Workbench will function as a normalization layer, so that Tivoli event correlation can be agnostic with respect to the events analyzed. This means Tivoli will be able to deal with standards such as CIM, JMX, and WMI, but also with proprietary resource models such as those found in Siebel environments, without requiring an entirely new and different agent for every target platform.
The Workbench will capture problem signatures, and also initiate corrective actions to be taken if a particular problem arises. Tivoli will work with standards organizations—and platform vendors—to populate the workbench with resource models so that users are not presented with a toolkit but with solutions for their platform management issues. The Workbench is Tivoli's next-generation framework: a framework for an age of standardized instrumentation and loosely coupled apps. For now the Workbench remains as a toolkit rather than a packaged solution. It is designed to be flexible and extensible. Perl scripting provides the tooling mechanism for these extensions. It would be nice to see Tivoli support ECMAscript (a.k.a. JavaScript) too, but Perl is a widely adopted standard scripting language in its own right.
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