Archive for January, 2010
Spectrum passes another 2 IBM Power Certifications
Congratulations to Paul Tomlinson on successfully passing the following exams:
IBM Certified Systems Expert – High Availability for AIX Technical Support and Administration (PowerHA)
IBM Certified Specialist – System p Administration
IBM PowerHA SystemMirror for AIX – Spectrum certified by IBM
Highlights of PowerHA SystemMirror for AIX 6.1
* Introducing PowerHA SystemMirror for AIX Standard Edition and PowerHA SystemMirror for AIX Enterprise Edition.
* PowerHA SystemMirror for AIX Standard Edition is the IBM Power Systems data center solution that helps protect critical business applications from outages; planned or unplanned.
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WebSphere Voice Response for AIX
IBM® WebSphere® Voice Response for AIX® offers an Interactive Voice Response (IVR) system for enterprises and telcos
It is one of the preferred telephony platform connection environments for WebSphere Voice Server-software resources for developing and deploying speech solutions.
* Supports speech recognition technologies that can replace traditional telephone keypad input with more natural [...]
AIX Technical Blog
How to develop SMCLI commands for IBM Systems Director
SMCLI (systems management command-line interface) commands are an integral part of IBM Systems Director. They are used to perform many of the systems-management operations that can be accomplished from the IBM Systems Director Web interface. The aim of this tutorial is to introduce you to the basic [...]
Technical Posts – Contact Spectrum for further infromation
Using gnuplot to display data in your Web pages
Use gnuplot to dynamically generate Web pages from your system using raw data to provide graphic images. This raw data typically contains MIS-related information, on system performance, storage, or database growth. Articles 19 Jan 2010
Open source C/C++ unit testing tools, Part 2: Get to know [...]
Green computing on AIX and POWER
Definition and evolution: IBM green computing
You hear a lot about green computing, but what exactly is it, why is it important, and what is IBM’s involvement in green computing? In essence, green computing defines the environmentally responsible way of deploying computer-based resources and technology. But why should you care? The short answer is that as [...]
IBM Director 6.1 – Management tool to reduce TCO
IBM Systems Director 6.1 addresses the total cost of ownership (TCO) by allowing management of a data centre both physical and virtual efficiently, from one place with one interface at the click of a button. Simplified platform management streamlines the way physical and virtual systems are managed across a multi-system environment which results in faster [...]
AIX Service Strategy Details and Best Practices
Introduction
IBM has enhanced the AIX operating system (OS) Release and Service Strategy as part of an ongoing effort to improve the manageability and stability of the AIX operating system for our clients. The enhanced strategy will provide clients with:
• Longer support for each AIX Technology Level update (formerly known as Recommended Maintenance Levels)
• Improved serviceability [...]
New FLRT upgrade includes Linux customers
On September 3, 2009, IBM released the latest version of the Fix Level Recommendation Tool. FLRT now supports Linux-based customers by providing fix recommendations for IBM licensed program products running on Power Systems. Both general use and High Performance Computing customers can now obtain fix level recommendations for products across all three operating systems: AIX, [...]
