1.2 What you can do with JP1/IM
With the growing size and complexity of the systems underpinning an enterprise's business operations, management of system operation is a vital issue. While most routine tasks are automated to improve efficiency, non-routine tasks still depend on individual skills and require more efficient IT operation because such tasks involve collating various types of information and knowledge to infer and make decisions.
JP1/IM provides the Intelligent Integrated Management Base, which enables an integrated way to manage and collate various types of data and knowledge to improve system operations. JP1/IM optimizes system operations management by offering integrated management tailored to objectives and integration of operational tasks.
JP1/IM has the following features:
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Providing the viewer (integrated operation viewer) for JP1/IM - Manager (Intelligent Integrated Management Base) to identify relationships between system components
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Integrated management using JP1 events (simply called events hereafter) and centralized system monitoring
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Error detection and reporting
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Integrating troubleshooting based on JP1/IM
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Integrated management of the system hierarchy and host settings
With the above features, JP1/IM integrates monitoring and operation into a unified management process based on JP1/IM, thus simplifying complex tasks.
The following figure shows the major JP1/IM functions.
The following figure illustrates the overview of JP1/IM.
The Intelligent Integrated Management Base of JP1/IM provides theintegrated operation viewer, which you can use on a Web browser to view relationships between various types of system data including job information and operating information. JP1/IM also provides specific GUI programs for event management that help you monitor and manage status by tracking events issued in the system.
The following figures show the major JP1/IM functions.
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Major functions of the Intelligent Integrated Management Base
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Major functions of event management