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Chapter 1. Introduction to business
systems management
This chapter presents some basic information about business systems
management with IBM Tivoli Business Systems Manager and introduces the rest
of the book with the description of the environment that we use in examples. The
sections are:
? 1.1, “Business systems management” on page 4 explains the value of
business systems management.
? 1.2, “Tivoli systems management product” on page 5 describes the Tivoli
systems management product structure.
? 1.3, “IBM Tivoli Business Systems Manager” on page 7 explains the features
of IBM Tivoli Business Systems Manager.
? 1.4, “Document organization and scope” on page 20 shows how this book is
organized and provides some suggestions for using it effectively.
? 1.5, “Lab environment” on page 22 discusses the setup that we use in the
examples.
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