> So Tivoli Business Systems Manager (TBSM) doesn't have a straight forward > TCPIP interface like BigBrother and Hobbit?
*Nothing* about TBSM is straightforward. 8-) Few (if any) of the enterprise management tools like this have simple interfaces. SNMP tends to be the only supported method for dealing with "unsupported" systems, usually via a "undefined" trap that takes a text string as an argument. > Has Tivoli issued a Statement of > Direction about eventually providing a VM/CMS agent > and supporting z/VM as a > real player in an enterprise network? I'll leave it to Alan or one of the IBMers to make an official comment, but the Tivoli people I've spoken to don't seem to understand that end-to-end control and monitoring requires monitoring of all the layers in a solution, and that z/VM is one of those layers, just as LPAR is. If you draw the picture of LPAR --> VM --> Linux guests and say "what do you do about controlling that critical resource allocation layer between the LPAR and the Linux guest" it gets very, very quiet.
