32 Certification Guide Series: IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.1
3.1 Environment assessment
All distributed, heterogeneous environments, both existing or new, need to be
properly assessed for all hardware and software requirements. A complete
high-level understanding of the entire environment enables an accurate
deployment of IBM Tivoli Monitoring, V6.1 from a physical and organizational
perspective. Fully review and document the environment you plan to monitor. An
optimal design can be created only after carefully considering the organizational
needs and limitations (for example, hardware availability) and understanding the
technical capabilities of the IBM Tivoli Monitoring software.
Understanding the following conditions accelerates your design ...