I guess it's just that time of the year again!
TBSM 4.2 came out recently, as did Impact 5.1.
Yesterday I saw both TADDM 7.1.2 and ITM 6.2.1 in passport advantage.
Here's a brief list of TADDM changes from the release notes:
TADDM 7.1.2 gives you the rich details of configuration items with automated, agentless discovery of the assets and their application dependencies, as well as a Discovery Library technology to help leverage data from other sources.
TADDM is a configuration management tool that helps IT operations personnel ensure and improve application availability in application environments. The operational staff gets a top-down view of applications so the staff can quickly understand the structure, status, configuration, and change history of their business-critical applications. This view immediately isolates issues in times of performance or availability problems and enables more effective planning for application change without disruption. An agent-free creation and maintenance of a Configuration Management Database (TADDM database) is delivered without requiring custom infrastructure modeling. TADDM also provides complete cross-tier dependency maps, topological views, change tracking, event propagation, and detailed reports and analytics.
The following list includes the functionality that was added for the TADDM 7.1.2:
- BIRT Report Infrastructure
- Limited IPV6 Capability
- Console Installation Capability
- Improved View Performance
- Improved Details Performance
- Improved ECMDB synchronization times
- Improved API query performance
- Improved post-discovery processing performance
- Improved TBSM Integration
- Drill Down Capability for Business Applications
- Comparison Report From Domain Manager
- Cross-Domain Comparison reports from ECMDB
- Additional MQ Cluster Information for zOS
- Reduced WAN traffic during anchor usage
- Upgraded first failure data capture tools
- Weblogic 9.x and 10.x sensor support
- Simplified migration from previous releases
- Windows 2008 Support
- AIX 6.1 Support
- Bug Fixes
Updated documentation is here.
ITM 6.2.1 doesn't seem to have updated the documentation yet, but here's a list I have of it's changes:
- Adaptive Monitoring
- TEPS Changes
- Event Slot Customization - replaces my older post!
- Managed node search bar
- Zoom in charts
- SSO with Java Webstart
- SPB bundles for TCM/TPM
- More CLI abilities
- Replace wadminep function (getfile, put file, list dir, execfile)
- CLI for historical data configuration collection
- Remotely invoke pdcollect tool
- Expand tacmd createsit (display item, consecutive samples, state)
- Agent Builder
- Support 100+ connections for remote monitoring
- Browser for logfile/script monitors
- Add CIM provider
- Out of the box Agentless OS monitoring packages
- Infrastructure improvements
- 64-bit zLinux and AIX support
- Support TDW on zOS
- Support TEC events from z Hub
- Manage agent fail-over
- Asynchronous Deployment
- Support 64 bit counters
- Agent Manager Services - an extra agentlet who manages the regular agents
- Improved TADDM integration
Of those, the Adaptive Monitoring and Event Slots seem extremely interesting and I really want to try them out!
-- Robert
Edit: forgot a few things in ITM...
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