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About This Release

IBM^(R) Tivoli^(R) Monitoring Version 5.1 is a development of, and upgrades, Tivoli Distributed Monitoring (Advanced Edition) Version 4.1.

The IBM Tivoli Monitoring product allows you to apply pre-configured best practices which encapsulate system administrator expertise "out-of-the-box" to:

• Automate the task of monitoring essential system resources
• Detect bottlenecks and potential problems
• Automatically recover from critical situations without system administrators scanning through extensive performance data

IBM Tivoli Monitoring also provides the foundation for additional automated Best Practices via Proactive Analysis Components (PACs) for managing business critical hardware and software including:

• Middleware
• Applications
• Databases

In addition, IBM Tivoli Monitoring provides seamless integration with other Tivoli Availability solutions, including the Tivoli Business System Manager^(R) and the Tivoli Enterprise Console^(R), to provide a true end-to-end availability solution.