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Goal – Primary Objective
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Principles
• Availability is at the core of business & end user
satisfaction
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Why Availability Management
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Responsibilities
• Determine availability requirements in business terms
• Predict and design for expected levels of availability
• Optimise availability through monitoring and reporting
• Produce Availability Plan – Long term for proactive improvement
• Ensure SLAs are met and monitor OLA/UC availability obligations
• Manage Service Outage Analysis (SOA)
• Produce and maintain:
- Component Failure Impact Analysis (CFIA)
- Fault Tree Analysis (FTA)
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Considerations
• Availability Managed through OLAs
• Maintainability
• Serviceability
• Resilience
- Related to Resource Capacity Management
• Security
- Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability (CIA)
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ITAMM – IT Availability Metrics
Model
• Range of metrics and perspectives that should be
considered when establishing Measurement and
Reporting
• Measurements need to be meaningful and add
value
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Expanded Incident ‘lifecycle’
DOWNTIME or MeanTime To Repair (M)TTR
UPTIME or MeanTime
Between Failures
(M)TBF
Time
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Calculating Availability
AST - DT
X 100
AST
% Availability =
Further considerations:
• Components in series or parallel
• Weighting per number of users affected
• Weighting per criticality period
Measuring Availability
Measurements need to be meaningful and add value to the IT and business organisation.
It would be necessary to consider both what is measured and how it is reported
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Benefits
• Services are designed and managed to meet specified business
availability requirements
• Shortfalls in levels of availability are identified and corrective
actions taken
• Frequency and duration of IT failures is reduced
• Availability levels are measured to fully support Service Level
Management
• BUSINESS VALUE!
– Effective Availability Management will influence customer
satisfaction and determine the perceived Reliability of the
business on the market
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Exam Tips
• Remember the ABILITY
• RELIABILITY
• MAINTAINABILITY
• SERVICEABILITY
But NOT VULNERABIILITY (ITSCM)
• CIA (Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability)
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Exam Questions
• Availability Management is responsible for ………..
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Exam Questions
• Managing service availability is now more important
than ever because ……
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