How do you get Service Management Unite?

When you purchase OMEGAMON you automatically get entitlement for the Tivoli Enterprise Portal (TEP) GUI interface.  Each OMEGAMON monitor, as well as distributed monitoring and other tools offer TEP based interfaces.  Service Management Unite (SMU) is a little different.  SMU is a front end to both OMEGAMON and to IBM System Automation (SA).  As such there is an assumption that you will have both components deployed as part of an SMU deployment.

Service Management Unite is included as part of the Service Management Suite for z/OS offering.  That means to get SMU you need to be licensed for the Service Management Suite.  When you license the Service Management Suite for z/OS you get the suite of OMEGAMON monitors, plus other components, such as IBM SA, and Tivoli Asset Discovery.  The picture below shows whats included with the IBM Service Management Suite.

Service Management Unite - A GUI automation interface

Service Management Unite (SMU) provides an integrated automation and monitoring GUI interface.  In the prior post we looked at an example of monitoring information, as collected by OMEGAMON Messaging and rendered in the SMU GUI interface.

You may also see resource and status information for IBM Systems Automation (SA) in the SMU interface.  The GUI may show such things as the inter-relationship of various sets of z/OS resources managed by SA automation.  The following example shows the automation GUI display.  Th example also shows how you may issue a command to an automation managed resource through the SMU GUI interface.