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1.7 What is new in IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.2

Figure 1-8 on page 19 gives an overview of what is new in IBM Tivoli Monitoring

V6.2.

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Figure 1-8 A summary of what is new in IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.2

IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.2 incorporates news features in terms of functionality,

serviceability, and quality.

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What’s new with ITM V6.2 ?

Advanced Event Integration

Enhance TEP/TEC Integration and Context

Based Launching

Per-Situation Control of:

• Enable or Disable send event

• Destination TEC server(s)

• Event severity

• Set TEC Event Severity

Common Event Viewer integrates ITM, TEC,

and OMNIBUS events in a single console

Security

• User Authentication through LDAP

• Manage TEP Permissions using User

Groups

Broadening Integration and

Improved Visualization

Enhance embedded HTML Browser

• Better HTML support

• Better Active Page support

Improve Topology View Integration

Chart View improvements

• Multi-source support

• Multi-line support

ITM V5.x to ITM V6.2

migration

ITM V5 -> ITM V6 automated upgrade of

Resource Models to Situations

Enhancements to V6 agents for parity

Agent Enhancements

• Monitor for the IBM AIX / System p environment

• UNIX Agent Zone Support

• OS Agent ping response times and md5 checksums

• Support >64 characters in service names

Infrastructure Enhancements

Serviceability:

• Problem Determination data gathering tool

• Operations Log Enhanced

Platform Updates:

• Support for Management Clusters

• Support VMware Management Servers

• Reduce Infrastructure (1500 agents/RTEMS)

• Use Java 1.5 for ITM Java-based components

• Support for DB2 V9.1 / Include DB2 V9.1 in ITM BOM

• Support Tivoli License Manager

Agent Builder

• Eclipse based toolkit for rapid development

• Use GUI wizards to create IRA-based agents

• Remote connection to browse data sources

• Enhanced Log file monitoring

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Agent Builder

Agent Builder was introduced with IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.1 Fix Pack 5 and has

been enhanced in IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.2. Figure 1-9 shows the Agent

Builder.

Figure 1-9 Agent Builder

Agent Builder is an Eclipse based wizard that allows you to quickly and easily

build a custom monitoring agent. It can use various data sources, such as

Windows® Management Instrumentation (WMI), Windows Performance Monitor

(Perfmon), Windows Event Log, Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP),

Script, Java Management Extensions (JMX™) and more. The OPAL Best

Practice Library contains many downloadable samples of custom agents created

by Agent Builder.

See Chapter 6, “Agent Builder” on page 347 for more information about the

Agent Builder. You can also watch a video on this topic at:

ftp://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/SG247444/itm62.html

See 6.7, “Agent Builder Demonstration Video” on page 356 for more information

about this video.

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IBM Tivoli Monitoring V5.x to IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.2

migration

IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.2 will provide an “automation-supported upgrade

process” for migrating IBM Tivoli Monitoring V5.x resource models to situations.

Security

Product security features will be enhanced in IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.2 by

enabling user authentication through Lightweight Directory Access Protocol

(LDAP). You will also be able to manage portal permissions using User Groups.

Infrastructure enhancements

This version will see a number of enhancements in the area of infrastructure:

򐂰 Serviceability:

– Problem determination data gathering tool

– Operations Log enhanced

򐂰 Platform updates:

– Support for Management Clusters

– Support VMware Management Servers

– Reduce infrastructure (1500 agents/remote monitoring server)

– Use Java 1.5 for IBM Tivoli Monitoring Java-based components

– Support for DB2® V9.1 (DB2 V9.1 is included in the IBM Tivoli Monitoring

installation media)

– Support for Tivoli License Manager

Advanced event integration

IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.2 will enhance the existing Tivoli Enterprise Console

integration and allow context based launching. It will allow enable or disable send

events, setting the destination IBM Tivoli Enterprise Console server(s) and event

severity per situation.

Events can be forwarded to multiple Tivoli Enterprise Console servers. As

customers often have multiple Tivoli Enterprise Console servers in their

environments, IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.2 provides users with the ability to

granularly select which events get forwarded to which Tivoli Enterprise Console

servers.

This feature also provides multiple Tivoli Enterprise Console destination failover

capability, where the user can create an alias that can be an ordered list of

failover servers.