Deployment Guide Series: IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.2

Deployment Guide Series: IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.2

by Vasfi Gucer, Ana Godoy, Fabrizio Salustri, Ghufran Shah, John Willis
Released February 2008
Publisher(s): IBM Redbooks
ISBN: None

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Book description

IBM Tivoli Monitoring Version 6.2 is a powerful monitoring product from IBM, that is easily customizable and provides real-time and historical data that enables you to quickly diagnose and solve issues through the IBM Tivoli Enterprise Portal component. This common, flexible, and easy-to-use browser interface helps users to quickly isolate and resolve potential performance problems.

This IBM Redbooks publication presents a deployment guide for IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.2. We cover planning, installing, and configuration of IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.2 for small, medium, and large environments. In addition, we provide some case studies, such as IBM Tivoli Monitoring V5.x migration, event management integration, and Agent Builder.

Agent Builder is a very powerful tool that you can use to develop your own monitoring agents. In order to show you how this tool can be used in a real life scenario, we have created a 30 minute video that you can launch from the ITSO Web site.

We have also added an appendix that discusses IBM Tivoli Monitoring sales engagement planning for Business Partners and Solution Developers.

The target audience for this documentation is IT Specialists and Business Partners who will be working on IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.2 implementations and proof of concepts.

Please note that the additional material referenced in the text is not available from IBM.

Table of contents

  1. Figures
  2. Tables
  3. Examples
  4. Notices
    1. Trademarks
  5. Preface
    1. The team that wrote this book
    2. Become a published author
    3. Comments welcome
  6. Part 1: Planning and architecture
  7. Chapter 1: Introduction
    1. 1.1: IBM Tivoli at a glance
    2. 1.2: IBM Service Management (ISM)
      1. IBM Process Management products
      2. IBM Operational Management products
      3. IBM Service Management platform
    3. 1.3: Enterprise management challenges
      1. Business driving forces
      2. Sample end-to-end scenario of an IBM Tivoli solution: Automated Problem Resolution
    4. 1.4: IBM Tivoli Monitoring solutions
    5. 1.5: IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.2 components
      1. Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server (monitoring server)
      2. Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server (portal server)
      3. Tivoli Enterprise Portal (portal or portal client)
      4. Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring agent (monitoring agent)
      5. Warehouse Proxy agent (WPA)
      6. Warehouse Summarization and Pruning agent (S&P)
    6. 1.6: IBM Tivoli Open Process Automation Library (OPAL)
    7. 1.7: What is new in IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.2
      1. Portal enhancements in IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.2
  8. Chapter 2: IT environment
    1. 2.1: Hardware prerequisites
      1. Processor requirements
      2. Memory and disk requirements
      3. Additional requirements
    2. 2.2: Software prerequisites
      1. Required software for IBM Tivoli Monitoring
      2. Required software for event integration with Netcool/OMNIbus
      3. Required software for event integration with the Tivoli Enterprise Console
      4. Supported operating systems
      5. Supported databases for Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server and Tivoli Data Warehouse
    3. 2.3: Sizing and sample of deployment scenarios
      1. Sizing
      2. Sample deployment scenarios (1/2)
      3. Sample deployment scenarios (2/2)
  9. Chapter 3: Installation and configuration
    1. 3.1: Installing IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.2
      1. Considerations before installing the product (1/2)
      2. Considerations before installing the product (2/2)
    2. 3.2: Installing and configuring IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.2
      1. Installing/configuring the hub Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server (1/5)
      2. Installing/configuring the hub Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server (2/5)
      3. Installing/configuring the hub Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server (3/5)
      4. Installing/configuring the hub Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server (4/5)
      5. Installing/configuring the hub Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server (5/5)
      6. Installing and configuring the remote monitoring server (1/2)
      7. Installing and configuring the remote monitoring server (2/2)
      8. Installing the Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server (1/3)
      9. Installing the Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server (2/3)
      10. Installing the Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server (3/3)
      11. Installing the monitoring agents (1/2)
      12. Installing the monitoring agents (2/2)
      13. Installing the Tivoli Enterprise Portal desktop client
    3. 3.3: Remote agent deployment
      1. Populating the agent depot for OS agents
      2. Deploying OS agents
      3. Deploying non-OS agents
    4. 3.4: Tivoli Data Warehouse
      1. Supported components
      2. Prerequisite installation
      3. Create the Tivoli Data Warehouse database
      4. Install and configure a Warehouse Proxy agent (1/3)
      5. Install and configure a Warehouse Proxy agent (2/3)
      6. Install and configure a Warehouse Proxy agent (3/3)
      7. Tivoli Enterprise Portal/Tivoli Data Warehouse communication
      8. Install and configure the Summarization and Pruning agent (1/3)
      9. Install and configure the Summarization and Pruning agent (2/3)
      10. Install and configure the Summarization and Pruning agent (3/3)
  10. Part 2: Deployment
  11. Chapter 4: Upgrading from IBM Tivoli Monitoring V5.1.2
    1. 4.1: Upgrading from Tivoli Distributed Monitoring V3.7
    2. 4.2: Environment used for this book
    3. 4.3: Upgrading your IBM Tivoli Monitoring V5.1.2 environment
      1. Comparing the infrastructures from an architectural point of view
      2. Comparing the infrastructures from an operational point of view (1/2)
      3. Comparing the infrastructures from an operational point of view (2/2)
      4. Comparing the infrastructures from a distribution point of view
      5. Installing the migration toolkit (1/3)
      6. Installing the migration toolkit (2/3)
      7. Installing the migration toolkit (3/3)
    4. 4.4: IBM Tivoli Monitoring Migration Toolkit
      1. Phase A: Migrate from IBM Tivoli Monitoring V5.1.2 to IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.2 infrastructure (1/5)
      2. Phase A: Migrate from IBM Tivoli Monitoring V5.1.2 to IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.2 infrastructure (2/5)
      3. Phase A: Migrate from IBM Tivoli Monitoring V5.1.2 to IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.2 infrastructure (3/5)
      4. Phase A: Migrate from IBM Tivoli Monitoring V5.1.2 to IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.2 infrastructure (4/5)
      5. Phase A: Migrate from IBM Tivoli Monitoring V5.1.2 to IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.2 infrastructure (5/5)
      6. Determining a migration strategy for endpoints, profiles, and profile managers
      7. Phase B: Migrating the endpoints (1/3)
      8. Phase B: Migrating the endpoints (2/3)
      9. Phase B: Migrating the endpoints (3/3)
      10. Phase C: Migrating the profiles (1/5)
      11. Phase C: Migrating the profiles (2/5)
      12. Phase C: Migrating the profiles (3/5)
      13. Phase C: Migrating the profiles (4/5)
      14. Phase C: Migrating the profiles (5/5)
      15. Phase D: Migrating the profile managers (1/2)
      16. Phase D: Migrating the profile managers (2/2)
      17. Viewing the results and cleaning up (1/3)
      18. Viewing the results and cleaning up (2/3)
      19. Viewing the results and cleaning up (3/3)
    5. 4.5: Migration toolkit internal flow
      1. scantmr
      2. Assess
      3. Migrate
      4. Migrate an OS agent
      5. Files produced by the toolkit
    6. 4.6: Problem determination
      1. The scantmr tool
      2. Assess tool
      3. Agent deployment
    7. 4.7: Migrating custom resource models
      1. Resource model Analyzer tool (1/5)
      2. Resource model Analyzer tool (2/5)
      3. Resource model Analyzer tool (3/5)
      4. Resource model Analyzer tool (4/5)
      5. Resource model Analyzer tool (5/5)
  12. Chapter 5: Integrating event management systems
    1. 5.1: Event integration with Tivoli Enterprise Console
      1. Installing Event Synchronization on event server (1/2)
      2. Installing Event Synchronization on event server (2/2)
      3. Installing monitoring agent .baroc files on the event server
      4. Configuring your monitoring server to forward events
    2. 5.2: Event integration with Netcool/OMNIbus
      1. Installing Event Synchronization
      2. Configuring the OMNIbus server
      3. Configuring the monitor server
      4. Customizing the OMNIbus configuration
    3. 5.3: Starting and stopping the situation update forwarder
    4. 5.4: Configuring connectors for the common event console
      1. Common Event Console Configuration window (1/2)
      2. Common Event Console Configuration window (2/2)
    5. 5.5: Integrating the Netcool and OMNIbus events to the Common Event Console example (1/2)
    6. 5.5: Integrating the Netcool and OMNIbus events to the Common Event Console example (2/2)
  13. Chapter 6: Agent Builder
    1. 6.1: Agent Builder overview
    2. 6.2: Common data manipulation
    3. 6.3: Agent Builder features
      1. Full function agents
      2. Remote deployment
      3. Versioning
      4. Support of scripts
      5. Log file monitoring
      6. Remote browsing
      7. Generate Migration Agent Mapping file
    4. 6.4: Installing the Agent Builder
    5. 6.5: Testing and debugging your agent
    6. 6.6: Environment variables on the agent
    7. 6.7: Agent Builder Demonstration Video
      1. How to launch the video
  14. Part 3: Planning for a client engagement
  15. Appendix A: Planning for a client engagement
    1. Services engagement preparation
      1. Implementation skills
      2. Available resources
    2. Solution scope and components
      1. Basic solution definition
      2. Advanced solution definition
    3. Services engagement overview
      1. Executive Assessment
      2. Demonstration system setup
      3. Hardware and software requirements
      4. Analyze solution tasks
      5. Creating a contract
    4. Estimating timings and activities of the engagement
      1. Perform environmental analysis and plan tasks
      2. Plan the solution
      3. Implement the solution
      4. Close the engagement
  16. Appendix B: Sample Statement of Work for IBM Tivoli Monitoring
    1. Building an operating system deployment solution
      1. Executive summary
      2. Solution description
      3. Assumptions
      4. Business Partner responsibilities
      5. Customer responsibilities
      6. Staffing estimates
      7. Testing
      8. Deliverables
      9. Completion criteria
  17. Abbreviations and acronyms
  18. Related publications
    1. IBM Redbooks
    2. Other publications
    3. Online resources
    4. How to get Redbooks
    5. Help from IBM
  19. Index (1/3)
  20. Index (2/3)
  21. Index (3/3)
  22. Back cover

Product information

  • Title: Deployment Guide Series: IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.2
  • Author(s): Vasfi Gucer, Ana Godoy, Fabrizio Salustri, Ghufran Shah, John Willis
  • Release date: February 2008
  • Publisher(s): IBM Redbooks
  • ISBN: None