Ural Automobile Plant automates IT infrastructure management based on IBM solutions

    IBM Corporation announces the successful completion of a project to implement the IT infrastructure management system of Ural Automobile Plant OJSC of the GAZ Group, one of the largest and fastest growing enterprises in the automotive industry of Russia, a leading manufacturer of four-wheel drive trucks.

    As part of this project, a coherent IT infrastructure management system was created at Ural Automobile Plant OJSC using IBM Tivoli technologies on the IBM System p UNIX server platform. The solution was integrated with existing personnel systems and a production management system (BAAN).

    The first stage of the project was the creation of an IT infrastructure monitoring system, the task of which was to provide on-duty administrators with information about the state of the plant’s IT infrastructure and information systems. The circuit of the monitoring system included equipment (telecommunication, computing, engineering), operating systems, system and application software (software). Thus, sections of different groups of administrators gained access to general information, so that their work became more coherent, and for the head of DIT, the monitoring system became a kind of “arbiter” in analyzing the causes of accidents. “Due to the regular monitoring of the operation of all components and comparison with threshold values ​​corresponding to the nature of normal operation, many upcoming failures began to be predicted in advance,

    The second stage of work was the creation of an IT infrastructure inventory system used to regularly conduct an inventory of equipment and software available at the factory, to detect unauthorized changes to the hardware and software configuration of a PC, as well as to centrally automatically install software packages on a PC. In the framework of the project, all PCs were “personalized” and tied to the users working for them, supplying PC data with data from the human resources database, which allowed the support service to receive information more accessible for analysis and processing.

    As a result of the project, inventory databases on existing equipment and installed software, mechanisms for automatically distributing software packages on a PC, and a monitoring console with up-to-date information about IT infrastructure were created and maintained in an up-to-date state.

    The IT management system simplified the inventory of equipment, which had a positive impact on the asset management process, the automatic installation of BAAN management system software allowed administrators to distribute this software to all PCs from a single center. “The joint work of the monitoring and inventory system allowed the dispatching service of Ural Automobile Plant OJSC to monitor the current state of the systems (proactive monitoring) and changes that took place over two weeks (periodic inventory). All this made it possible to assess the current situation and identify bottlenecks in order to prevent possible failures, ”said Yuri Nam, Director of the Center for Information Technologies of Ural Automobile Plant GAZ Group.

    “The integrated approach to IT management, which IBM implements in the Ural AZ project, is designed to ensure the functioning of not a specific IT infrastructure node, but the integrated functioning of the business service provided by the IT service,” said Alexander Klimanov, Head of Department Tivoli sales in the industrial sector, IBM in Russia and the CIS.

    Software products that were used in the project: IBM Tivoli Configuration Manager, IBM Tivoli Netview / Switch Analyzer, IBM Tivoli Storage Manager, IBM Tivoli Enterprise Console, IBM Tivoli Monitoring, IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center, IBM Director.

    The system was implemented by Getnet Consulting, an official IBM business partner in Russia and the CIS since 1991 in the status of IBM Premier Business Partner.

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