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:

• Providing the viewer (integrated operation viewer) for JP1/IM - Manager (Intelligent Integrated Management Base) to identify relationships between system components

• Integrated management using JP1 events (simply called events hereafter) and centralized system monitoring

• Error detection and reporting

• Integrating troubleshooting based on JP1/IM

• 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.

Figure 1‒1: 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.

• Major functions of the Intelligent Integrated Management Base

  

• Major functions of event management

  

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