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? Action requirement: Some operators may need a special ability to issue an
action to an object, so consider addressing this in the implementation.
5.7 Business System requirements
IBM Tivoli Business Systems Manager offers two types of views: All Resources
View and Business System View. The All Resources View, sometimes called the
physical view, represents the actual enterprise structure. Business System Views
(BSVs) are created with managed objects from the physical view. Business
System objects are additional representations of the physical objects that exist
within the enterprise; specifically, a link to the actual object that resides within the
All Resources View. Each link contains a set of filters and controls, so data
coming into the Business System object is the only data that is important to the
BSV's author. Operations performed on the physical object affect the object in the
created BSVs. You create Business System objects by dragging a physical object
from the physical view, or another Business System object from another BSV,
into the destination BSV.
5.7.1 Business System View theory
IBM Tivoli Business Systems Manager has the capability to create logical
aggregations of all the physical objects discovered within the enterprise. In order
to represent critical business processes or services, the objects contained in the
All Resources View can be extrapolated from their original tree and inserted into
different hierarchical structures. Such new structures (Business System Views)
enable you to diversify enterprise monitoring according to different IBM Tivoli
Business Systems Manager operators’ business interests and needs.
5.7.2 Business System View design concept
Designing a BSV’s structure involves understanding and accounting for the
complex relationships between the objects involved and the myriad ways to
represent them. This section provides our recommendations for designing
correct BSVs:
? Create BSVs based on the need and required monitoring function of an
operator or a group of operators. BSVs should provide critical business
information about the collection of resources or applications the operators are
responsible for managing.
? Create BSVs covering multiple business interests as root BSVs directly in the
Business System folder so that they can be reused and incorporated in other
BSVs. Dragging and dropping a child BSV into another one results in