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IBM beams in Tivoli monitoring from the cloud
Web watches over on-premise infrastructure
IBM has been a busy bee floating chunks of its big, complicated, on-premise IT management software into the cloud in order to woo small- and mid-sized businesses.
The latest to receive a web-based treatment is IBM Tivoli Live, a web-based service that takes several bits of the company's on-premise Tivoli monitoring products and serves it up from Big Blue's own halls.
Just to be clear, that's a web-based service checking on the health of on-premise IT. Somewhat an odd proposition. But IBM claims the deal will let smallish and medium-ish firms avoid making a huge initial investment in hardware and software licenses to do it in-house.
The web-based Tivoli Live supports monitoring of 25 to 500 nodes. It's split into two tiers of service plus one add-on.
A "Touchless" option monitors devices and operating systems (Windows, Linux, AIX, Solaris, HP-UX) using an agent-less Tivoli Monitoring 6.2.1. That goes for 44ドル per month per node.
Meanwhile, An agent-based OS and application monitoring option uses IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.2.1 and IBM Composite Application Manager for Applications, costing 58ドル per month per node.
IBM charges 14ドル per month per service extra for historical trend analysis, plus performance and capability reporting.
The service also requires a rather steep one-time 6,500ドル setup fee per customer for "on-boarding costs." Service contracts are a minimum of 90 days and run from one to three years. Hmm, while the service itself may be on-target, it seems the terms and initial fee are a bit binding to really appeal to small company types. ®