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 understand the situation by visualizing the entire IT system, and 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

JP1/IM's Intelligent Integrated Management Base enables you to assess the health of your IT system from the context of your IT infrastructure, visualize the relevance of the data in your system, including impacted job information and operational information, in the integrated operation viewer (WWW browser), and take contextual actions. In addition, event management allows you to monitor and manage events based on events occurring in the system using a dedicated GUI.

The following figures show the major JP1/IM functions.

Figure 1‒2: Major functions of the Intelligent Integrated Management Base

Figure 1‒3: Major functions of event management

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