IBM WebSphere Business Monitor V6.0.2 adds productivity enhancements

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1 Software Announcement October 10, 2006 IBM WebSphere Business Monitor V6.0.2 adds productivity enhancements Overview IBM WebSphere Business Monitor lets you monitor business events in real-time by providing key users with a visual display of business process status together with alerts and notifications. WebSphere Business Monitor is tightly integrated with both WebSphere Business Modeler and WebSphere Process Server. What s new in V6.0.2 Enhanced Business Activity Monitoring (BAM): Users have the ability to monitor events beyond WebSphere Process Server. By creating an event emitter, any application that is identified as business critical can now be monitored. Improved dashboards: The monitor dashboard supports updates to and personalization of key performance indicators (KPI) thresholds. WebSphere Business Monitor Development Toolkit: A graphical editor, which allows users to develop and test a monitoring model within the WebSphere Integration Developer environment. Included is one restricted use license of WebSphere Integration Developer. If you require additional development environments for the WebSphere Business Monitor, then you will need to purchase new or use existing licenses of WebSphere Integration Developer. Business monitor programming model: A monitoring model can be expressed in XML format. Improved administration: Users have a step-by-step guide for deploying a monitoring model. Improved versioning support: Users have better control of change management of a monitoring model. WebSphere network deployment: Users can install WebSphere Business Monitor in a WebSphere network deployment topology enabling high availability of monitoring models. Improved installation: The installation process is simplified and reduces the complexity, size, and duration of the installation. Key prerequisites Microsoft Windows 2000 or Windows 2003 AIX V5.2 or AIX V5.3 For details, refer to /integration/wbimonitor /requirements/ Program Number For details, refer to the Program number section in this announcement. Planned availability dates V6.0.2 (English) December 22, 2006 Electronic delivery January 26, 2007 Media delivery V (National language) March 30, 2007 Electronic delivery April 20, 2007 Media delivery Note: WebSphere Business Monitor includes prerequisite and complementary products. For all availability dates specified in this announcement, the bundled prerequisite and complementary products will include translations for the following languages (if available): French, Italian, German, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese. At a glance IBM WebSphere Business Monitor V6.0.2 delivers: Customizable dashboard, implemented as WebSphere Portal pages, that are visually intuitive Multidimensional analysis and reports supported through the dashboards, with embedded business intelligence Creates customized analytic components that monitors existing business processes Allows user to do multidimensional analysis Capability to monitor specified by the business user Adaptive Action Manager invokes selected real-time action or set of actions based upon predefined rules and policies User controlled filtering of the reports Sophisticated business analysis integrated with business processes Innovation and optimization enhanced in key business processes Capability to understand and transform your business through insightful business modeling, simulation, and analysis enabled with WebSphere Business Modeler Advanced A collection of business events in a Common Base Event (CBE) format you can correlate into meaningful key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics This announcement is provided for your information only. For additional information, contact your IBM representative, call 800-IBM-4YOU, or visit the IBM home page at: IBM Asia Pacific IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation. AP

2 AP distribution AP announcement countries Announcement Country/Region Announced date Asean* Yes 10/10/06 Australia Yes 10/10/06 Hong Kong Yes 10/10/06 PRC Yes 10/10/06 Macao Yes 10/10/06 Taiwan Yes 10/10/06 Korea Yes 10/10/06 Japan Yes 10/10/06 New Zealand Yes 10/10/06 * Bangladesh, Brunei, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, India, Nepal, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam Description New features and enhancements in WebSphere Business Monitor V6.0.2 Enhanced Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) Prior releases limited users to monitoring Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) applications running in WebSphere Process Server. Users now have the ability to monitor events emitted by additional event sources. Improved dashboards The monitor dashboard interface has been extended to support updates to and personalization of key performance indicators (KPI) thresholds as expectations and the business environment changes. In addition, KPIs can now be defined with respect to business dimensions such as time period, location, and organization. WebSphere Business Monitor Development Toolkit The monitoring model editor lets you use a graphical editor to create and develop a monitoring model in XML. The editor uses monitoring models from the WebSphere Business Modeler as input as well as BPEL events from the WebSphere Integration Developer. In addition, this new editor will allow for users to import Common Base Event (CBE) definitions from any source in order to do a level of business activity monitoring on that source. This tool is targeted for a technical user who is familiar with the events being emitted by the source applications and who can define business requirements for business measures, alerts, and dimensional analysis. Monitor programming model The business monitor programming model now allows for a monitoring model to be expressed in an XML format. This provides a well-defined format for describing the processing of events, calculation of business measures, and detection of business situations. WebSphere Business Monitor now provides a lightweight monitor installation option to accelerate the development and validation of monitoring models. Technical users can quickly make changes to monitoring models, send events to the monitor, and then view the results of processing through a simple user interface. Improved administration The administration capabilities now provide users with a step-by-step guide for deploying a monitoring model. In addition to an administration console view, a non-gui interface allows users the ability to script administration capabilities. Improved versioning support Versioning has been enhanced to allow users a better level of change management. When a user makes changes to a monitoring model, they now have the ability to have active instances continue using the old version and new instances using the new version. WebSphere network deployment Support for installing WebSphere Business Monitor in a WebSphere network deployment topology is now available. Individual monitoring models can run on separate servers and monitoring servers can be federated into a WebSphere Application Server network deployment cell. New support for clustering of monitoring models provides failover functionality, eliminating single point of failure and ensuring high availability. Improved installation The WebSphere Business Monitor V6.0.2 installation process has been simplified to reduce complexity, size, and duration of install. Users have the flexibility to choose existing installations of the prerequisite software, foregoing the installation of the prerequisites from the launchpad. In addition, the installation footprint of prerequisite software and the overall installation time has been significantly reduced. Program number Program number VRM Program name 5724-M M IBM WebSphere Business Monitor V6.0 IBM WebSphere Business Monitor V6.0 Plant of control and manufacture Plant of control: SDF Dublin Plant of manufacture: SDF Dublin Availability of national languages General Product description Language availability date WebSphere Business Monitor V6.0.2 English U.S. January 26, 2007 WebSphere Business Multilingual (French, April 20, 2007 Monitor V Russian, Hebrew, Arabic, Korean, Chinese -- Simplified, Spanish, Portuguese-Brazilian, German, Japanese, Chinese -- Traditional, Hungarian, English U.S., Greek, Turkish, Czech, Italian, Polish) Trademarks WebSphere, and AIX are registered trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation in the United States or other countries or both. Microsoft and Windows are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. AP

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4 IBM Asia Pacific Announcement Supplemental Information October 10, 2006 Education support IBM training provides education to support many IBM offerings. Descriptions of courses for IT professionals and managers are on the IBM training Web site /tp/en?pagetype=tp_search Refer to the IBM training Web site for information on course locations and availability dates. Contact your IBM representative for course information. Offering Information Product information is available via the Offering Information Web site Also, visit the Passport Advantage Web site Publications No publications are shipped with WebSphere Business Monitor V WebSphere Business Monitor publications will be available December 22, 2006, in.pdf format at /wbimonitor/library/ Technical information Specified operating environment Hardware requirements For information on the hardware requirements for WebSphere Business Monitor, visit /wbimonitor/requirements/ Software requirements For information on the software requirements for WebSphere Business Monitor, visit /wbimonitor/requirements/ Planning information Extended entitlement: IBM plans to protect customer investments and does not expect current customers to migrate immediately from currently entitled products to WebSphere Business Monitor V6. In order to facilitate the extended migration periods that some customers may require, IBM is offering extended entitlement. Effective upon the date of electronic software delivery, customers with active subscription to eligible products can activate extended entitlement to WebSphere Business Monitor. For information on extended entitlement activation, eligible products and their equivalent extended entitlement products, and general information about extended entitlement, visit the Entitlement section at /wbimonitor/library/ Customers should contact their IBM representative for questions and additional assistance. Software Maintenance, previously referred to as Software Subscription and Technical Support, is included in the Passport Advantage Agreement. Installation and technical support is provided by the Software Maintenance offering of the IBM International Passport Advantage Agreement. This fee service enhances customer productivity, with voice and electronic access into IBM support organizations. Packaging: WebSphere Business Monitor is distributed via electronic download and a single physical media pack with multiple CD-ROMs. Security, auditability, and control WebSphere Business Monitor uses the security and auditability features of the host hardware or software. The customer is responsible for evaluation, selection, and implementation of security features, administrative procedures, and appropriate controls in application systems and communication facilities. Ordering information This product is only available via Passport Advantage. is not available as shrinkwrap. Product information Licensed Product Product function title group category IBM WebSphere App App Business Monitor Integration Integration Middleware Middleware Other Other It This announcement is provided for your information only. For additional information, contact your IBM representative, call 800-IBM-4YOU, or visit the IBM home page at: IBM Asia Pacific IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation. AP

5 Program name PID number Charge unit description IBM WebSphere Business Monitor 5724-M24 Value Unit Charge metrics definitions Value Unit A Value Unit is a pricing charge metric for program license entitlements which is based upon the quantity of a specific designated measurement used for a given program. Each program has a designated measurement. The most commonly used designated measurement is a processor core. However, for select programs, there are other designated measurements such as users, client devices, and messages. The number of Value Unit entitlements required for your specific implementation of the given program must be obtained from a conversion table associated with the program. You must obtain a Proof of Entitlement (PoE) for the appropriate number of Value Unit entitlements for your implementation. The Value Unit entitlements of a given program cannot be exchanged, interchanged, or aggregated with Value Unit entitlements of another program. Processor (Value Unit) A processor (commonly called a CPU or core) is a functional unit within a computing device that interprets and executes instructions. A processor consists of at least an instruction control unit and one or more arithmetic and/or logic unit. With multicore technology, each core is considered a processor. Not all processors require the same number of Value Unit entitlements. To determine the number of Value Unit entitlements required, refer to the processor Value Unit conversion table on the Passport Advantage Web site /services/cwepassport.nsf/wdocs/pvu_licensing _for_customers With full capacity licensing, a PoE must be acquired for the appropriate number of value units based on all activated processors on the server available to the program or a component of the program. Passport Advantage program licenses WebSphere Business Monitor Part description IBM WebSphere Business Monitor IBM WebSphere Business Integration Monitor VU Annual SW Maint Rnwl IBM WebSphere Business Integration Monitor VU Lic+SW Maint 12 Mo IBM WebSphere Business Integration Monitor VU SW Maint Reinstate 12 Mo Passport Advantage supply Program name/description WebSphere Business Monitor V6.0.2 Media Pack English U.S. AIX V3.x, Windows 2000, Windows Server 2003 CD-ROM Digital Disk -- ISO 9660 Standard V6.0.2 Part number E029TLL D56KQLL D56KULL Part number AF0BCEN WebSphere Business Monitor V Media Pack Multilingual (French, Russian, Hebrew, AF0BDML Arabic, Korean, Chinese -- Simplified, Spanish, Portuguese-Brazilian, German, Japanese, Chinese -- Traditional, Hungarian, English U.S., Greek, Turkish, Czech, Italian, Polish) Windows 2000, Windows Server 2003, AIX 5L, V5 CD-ROM Digital Disk -- ISO 9660 Standard V Passport Advantage customer: Media pack entitlement details Customers with active maintenance or subscription for the products listed are entitled to receive the corresponding media pack. WebSphere Business Monitor V6.0.2 Entitled maintenance Media packs Part offerings description description number WebSphere Business WebSphere Business AF0BCEN Monitor Value Unit Monitor English U.S., Multiplatforms, CD-ROM Digital Disk -- ISO 9660 Standard Withdrawal of previous Passport Advantage part numbers: Effective May 18, 2007, IBM will withdraw from marketing the following products licensed under the IBM International Program License Agreement. A replacement product and availability date is listed if one is available. Withdrawn products Replacement products Part Part Avail. number Product name number Product name date 5724-I74 IBM WebSphere Business Monitor V6.0.1 AF0AQML WebSphere Business AF0BDML WebSphere Business 4/20/07 Monitor AIX, Monitor AIX, Windows 2000, Windows 2000, Windows Server Windows Server 2003, V , V Non-Cryptograph Non-Cryptograph Orders for these part numbers will not be accepted after the stated effective date of withdrawal, nor will normal marketing activities or educational support be available unless previous agreement exists between the customer and IBM. Terms and conditions This product is only available via Passport Advantage. It is not available as shrinkwrap. Licensing: IBM International Program License Agreement and License Information document. Proofs of Entitlement (PoE) are required for all authorized use. Part number products only, offered outside of Passport Advantage, where applicable, are license only and do not include Software Maintenance. This software license includes Software Maintenance, previously referred to as Software Subscription and Technical Support. License Information form number Program Program name number Form number WebSphere Business Monitor 5724-M24 L-DJEN-6NBL73 AP

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