us Notes" can be launched with Tivoli tools along with management data. Monitors and task libraries help to maintain these applications in Tivoli environment. Trouble management: While monitoring the network, if Tivoli identifies a system crash then commands to take corrective actions can be performed or a page message can be issued to the operator. Inventory management: The assets of an enterprise can be tracked and man- aged using Tivoli products. It is possible to perform operations, administra- tion, and maintenance on these assets. Centralized control of enterprise assets is made possible with Tivoli products. Storage management: Managing the storage devices and the data in it is an integral part of enterprise management. In addition to products for service, network, and application management, Tivoli also has products for storage management. IBM Tivoli family of products has specialized products for all aspects of man- agement. In storage management alone IBM Tivoli has multiple products like Tivoli Storage Manager, Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack, Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack Center, Tivoli Storage Manager HSM for Windows, Tivoli Storage Optimizer z/OS, and Tivoli Storage Process Manager. The capabilities of some of the network management products in the IBM Tivoli family are discussed next. 1. Tivoli Monitoring. This provides an end-to-end view of the entire distributed IT infrastructure. It monitors performance and availability of the distributed operating system and its applications. It has a user-friendly browser with a cus- tomizable workspace. The Monitoring Agents collect data from the managed Fundamentals of EMS, NMS and OSS/BSS node and sends it to the monitoring server. Tivoli Monitoring also has the capability to detect problem scenarios and take corrective action. IBM Eclipse helps the server by providing help pages for the monitoring agents that aid the users of Tivoli Monitor. 2. Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus: This is used by many service providers as an inte- gration platform acting as a manager