Tideway Community Forum

Server Reference Data: Need to Identify Server Consolidation Opportunities?

2008-02-08T15:53:24+00:00

Tideway is exploring the feasibility of releasing server reference data to augment discovered data in order to help customers analyze server consolidation opportunities more effectively.

The specification attributes that we have identified as being required are:
- Total Power (Watts)
- Power (VA)
- BTU/hr
- Rack Space (RU)

Please tell us if these additional attributes will be of value to you and whether there is additional reference data required to enable analysis of server consolidation opportunities

Parsing UNIX Filesystem Information

2008-11-10T21:51:55+00:00

Has anyone attempted to parse Unix and Linux filesystem information, as returned by df, to separate it into separate drives/mount points?

This has come from a client request.

What is Your Most Pressing Software Related Issue ?

2008-02-08T17:51:50+00:00

Share with us the most pressing software related issue you face today.

End of Life / Support Data: Need to Reduce Risk by Eliminating Unsupported Products?

2008-02-08T17:09:43+00:00

Tideway is exploring the feasibility of providing end of life / support data to augment discovered data in order to help customers identify and track removal of unsupported server models and software products.

Please tell us if these additional attributes will be of value to you, sources of end of life data that you refer to and if there are any impending end of life products that are of interest to you.

Agents -> Management Server Relationships: Need to Identify IT Management Consolidation Opportunities?

2008-02-08T14:56:10+00:00

The HP OpenView Operations pattern identifies both HP OVO Manager servers and Agents and determines relationships between the Agents and their respective servers.

The relationship information was specifically requested by a customer who will be using Foundation to help consolidate the number of HP OVO Manager server instances in order to improve operational efficiencies.

We would be interested to learn about other Agent / Manager or Client / Server products you would like to gather relationship information for.

Business Application Patterns - Accelerate Modeling of ERP, CRM and Vertical Business Business

2008-02-25T12:14:33+00:00

Tideway plan to introduce patterns for leading ERP, CRM & industry vertical applications to help accelerate business application modeling initiatives.

Pls tell us which products and functional modules would be of most interest to you.

Clustering & High Availability Software - Need to Verify Resilience of Critcal Business Services?

2008-02-12T11:55:20+00:00

Tideway provides patterns for the following industry leading cluster and high availability products which enable customers to:
- Verify resiliency is built into the infrastructure running their critical business applications
- Verify and compare configuration of cluster nodes

Click on the links to learn more about these patterns:
- HP ServiceGuard: http://www.tideway.com/tknwiki/index.php/HP_ServiceGuard
- IBM HACMP (High Availability Cluster Multi Processing):
- Sun Cluster: http://www.tideway.com/tknwiki/index.php/Sun_Cluster
- Veritas Cluster Server:
- Microsoft Cluster Server: http://www.tideway.com/tknwiki/index.php/Microsoft_Cluster_Server

We are very interested to learn:
- Which additional cluster and high availability products you would like Tideway to identify?
- The specific configuration issues you face when managing clusters and what configuration data you need to help manage these?

License Key Information: Need to Identify License Rationalization Opportunities?

2008-02-08T14:33:53+00:00

The BEA Weblogic Server pattern now provides license key information enabling license audits for BEA Weblogic Server and Portal. Follow the link below to find out more and see example reports.

http://www.tideway.com/tknwiki/index.php/BEA_WebLogic_Application_Server#Determination_of_WebLogic_Application_Server_Editions__and_License_Information_Obtained

Please tell us which other products you would be like to gather license information for (Veritas, Business Objects)?

Critical Patch Information: Need to Reduce Risk by Eliminating Vulneribilities?

2008-02-08T17:23:24+00:00

Looking at the technology products (Application Server and RDBMS) requiring Oracle’s January Critical Patch Update (CPU)it was evident that Foundation patterns provide the level of precision needed to help organizations identify instances requiring the patch.

Oracle CPU: http://www.oracle.com/technology/deploy/security/critical-patch-updates/cpujan2008.html
Oracle RDBMS pattern: http://www.tideway.com/tknwiki/index.php/Oracle_RDBMS
Oracle AS pattern: http://www.tideway.com/tknwiki/index.php/Oracle_Application_Server

Oracle recommend that organizations “have a complete inventory of Oracle products across the IT enterprise, with full version numbers” however do not appear to have a solution for this. As a result we hear that many organizations are unable to apply the CPUs and as a result are exposing themselves to critical security vulnerabilities.

Tideway is exploring the feasibility of providing critical patch data to augment discovered data in order to help customers identify and track removal of critical security vulnerabilities.

Please tell us if you share the issues described above, which vendors / products you would most need to monitor for vulnerabilities, sources of critical patch information that you refer to and if there are currently any critical vulnerabilities that you need to identify.