Compare IBM Tivoli Monitoring vs. PathSolutions TotalView

IBM Tivoli Monitoring solutions are designed to oversee the performance and accessibility of distributed operating systems and applications. These solutions utilize a suite of common service components known as Tivoli Management Services. The components of Tivoli Management Services deliver essential functions such as security, data transfer and storage, notification systems, user interface presentation, and communication capabilities within an agent-server-client architecture. A variety of other products, including IBM Tivoli XE mainframe monitoring solutions and IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager, also leverage these services. Additionally, Tivoli Management Services support a range of monitoring products like Tivoli Monitoring for Applications, Tivoli Monitoring for Cluster Managers, Tivoli Monitoring for Databases, Tivoli Monitoring for Energy Management, Tivoli Monitoring for Messaging and Collaboration, and Tivoli Monitoring for Virtual Environments, providing a comprehensive toolkit for managing diverse IT environments effectively. This integration ensures that users benefit from a cohesive monitoring experience across different platforms and applications.

TotalView offers network monitoring as well as root-cause troubleshooting of problems in plain-English. The solution monitors every device as well as every interface on every device. In addition, TotalView goes deep, collecting 19 error counters, performance, configuration, and connectedness so nothing is outside of it’s view. A built-in heuristics engine analyzes this information to produce plain-English answers to problems. Complex problems can now be solved by junior level engineers leaving the senior level engineers to work on more strategic level projects. The core product includes everything needed to run a perfectly healthy network: Configuration management, server monitoring, cloud service monitoring, IPAM, NetFlow, path mapping, and diagramming. Get Total Network Visibility on your network and solve more problems faster.